Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau
Zero Knowledge13 Nov 2019

Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Joseph Bonneau, Assistant Professor at NYU and co-author on the Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) paper. We discuss VDFs, what they are, how they were developed and what they can be used for.

Here are a few links that we reference:


Blockchain 101: Randomness episode with Justin Drake


Verifiable Delay Functions by Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bünz, and Ben Fisch


vdfresearch.org


Numbers Game


A Programmer Solved a 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle


Bitcoin Book

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