Decrypt: Cryptographic breakthrough could solve Zcash's biggest flaw

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On 9/11/19, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Decrypt: Cryptographic breakthrough could solve Zcash's biggest flaw.
> https://decrypt.co/9107/cryptographic-breakthrough-could-solve-zcash

Many read and repeat "trusted setup" as broken without bothering
to basic learning about Zcash system, ZKP, MPC paramgen,
its threat models, etc. It's more nuanced issue than that.
A bit more accurate, plus the historical "zcash" links on this list...

https://zcoin.io/ufaqs/what-is-trusted-setup/
https://electriccoin.co/blog/halo-recursive-proof-composition-without-a-trusted-setup/

Anyway, the race to truly private p2p distributed
lightweight cryptocurrencies and exchanges appears
to finally be on.

In other news, the world has yet to solve the [un]governance problem...

https://decrypt.co/8911/zcash-negotiations-collapse-trademark