You know nothing, John Snow

The jokes just write themselves with this one. In this episode, we bumble our way through an overview of Zero Knowledge Proofs, another entry in cryptography’s long line of mind benders.ZKPs come from one of the most consequential decades in history for nerds like us. Forget Classic Rock and the emergence of Hip Hop, the cryptographers were the ones really cooking from the mid 70s to the mid 80s, with incredible bangers like Public Key crypto, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, Cryptographic Hashing, and of course the beautiful Merkle Trees that gave us our blockchains.After that though, ZKPs were kinda shelved. But if there’s one thing crypto and Web3 have been good at, it’s inventing new abstract problems that need a nifty technical solution.So what are ZKPs, how do they work, and what do they unlock for the builders? We can’t promise you’ll come away from this episode knowing a lot, but hopefully it’s more than Zero. It’s worth a shot.