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devcon 6 / working towards a plural public via common knowledge and designated verifier proofs

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Working Towards a Plural Public via Common Knowledge and Designated Verifier Proofs

Duration: 00:26:13

Speaker: Shrey Jain

Type: Talk

Expertise: Intermediate

Event: Devcon

Date: Oct 2022

Often cited virtues of blockchains are immutability, transparency, decentralization, openness, and trustlessness. Many also think of their most natural applications as financial. Yet a critical affordance of such systems is often missed: the way they are uniquely suited to facilitate cooperation. Here I show how via CK and DVPs.

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