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Wilcox: Zcash provided the first practical application of zero-knowledge proofs
“Like I say, it was a very important scientific discovery, but it didn't get practical application until my company implemented it. We made some scientific advances that made it sufficiently practical, and we implemented it and deployed it to the world in this …”
Wilcox: Zero-knowledge proofs could solve blockchain scalability bottlenecks
“Zero knowledge proofs might be a breakthrough to solve the scaling problem that has stopped all the blockchains so far. Because the scaling problem is, you remember, everybody wants to be sure of everything that goes into the blockchain. That means the more pe…”
Wilcox: The NSA led a government faction opposing early HTTPS encryption
“There was a faction within the US government led by the NSA that objected to the development of HTTPS.”
Wilcox: Traditional point-to-point encryption cannot be applied to blockchains
“You can't apply this encryption to blockchain, because all this encryption from Julius Caesar to Alan Turing to Netscape is point to point.”
Wilcox: Satoshi Nakamoto failed to encrypt Bitcoin due to early ZK limits
“So when Satoshi Nakamoto was inventing Bitcoin, he tried to figure out how to add encryption into it, and he couldn't figure it out. It didn't fit, because back then, 10 whole years ago we didn't have good enough zero-knowledge proofs.”