On Trust Infrastructure with Arnaud Schenk

SummaryThis 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 Williamson05:09 * Episode 176: Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec05:09 * Episode 273: History of Plonk, Noir, and the building of Aztec 307:38 * 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 Schenk39:28 * Crypto's Three Body Problem by Lotti, Shorin, Hart48:13 * Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell by Vitalik Buterin52:21 * 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 On Crypto Article by Arnaud SchenkKnot Group WikiCheck out the ZK Jobs Board for the latest jobs in ZK at jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm zkSummit12 is happening in Lisbon on Oct 8th! Applications to attend are now open at zksummit.com, apply today as early bird tickets are limited!Episode SponsorsAttention, all projects in need of server-side proving, kick start your rollup with Gevulot's ZkCloud, the first zk-optimized decentralized cloud! Get started with a free trial plus extended grant opportunities for premier customers until Q1 2025. Register at Gevulot.com.Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.As Aleo is gearing up for their mainnet launch in Q1, this is an invitation to be part of a transformational ZK journey. Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/.If you like what we do:Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | LinktreeSubscribe to our podcast newsletterFollow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefmJoin us on TelegramCatch us on YouTube Read transcript

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