Zero Knowledge4 Sep 2024

On Trust Infrastructure with Arnaud Schenk

Summary

This week Anna and Nico chat with Arnaud Schenk, one of the original co-founders of Aztec and creator of the Polaris Fellowship. They discuss Arnaud’s recent blog post ‘On Trust Infrastructure’, exploring the down sides of a trustless system, the need to make online community building more possible and how programmable cryptography may play a role in these solutions. They explore the history of computer culture, the rejection of institutions by mid-90s internet culture and how the seeds for this were set by the 60s counterculture.

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

05:09 * Episode 75: Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson

05:09 * Episode 176: Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec

05:09 * Episode 273: History of Plonk, Noir, and the building of Aztec 3

07:38 * Episode 237: Exploring ZK Research with Jens Groth

20:01 * Into the deep end: making sense of PLONK - Zac Williamson (CTO, Aztec Protocol)

23:55 * Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work by Michael P. Farrell

27:05 * No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior by Joshua Meyrowitz

29:33 * On Trust Infrastructure by Arnaud Schenk

39:28 * Crypto's Three Body Problem by Lotti, Shorin, Hart

48:13 * Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell by Vitalik Buterin

52:21 * From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner

52:21 * The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

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