What are Bulletproofs? What is a range proof? Why is encrypting amounts important for financial privacy? How does it use non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs to hide amounts without risking inflation?
Confidential Transactions by Greg Maxwell:
https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt
“Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More” – http://web.stanford.edu/~buenz/pubs/bulletproofs.pdf
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This is so genius.
As always, you're amazing Andreas. EVERYONE help support him by becoming a Patron on Patreon!!! You are the reason I first signed up for Patreon btw. First person I became a Patron for 🙂 Btw volume is very low on this recording brotha.
The audio is too low! On the next video you should try to increase it somehow.
Love your videos. Could you describe the difference in monero and zcash and the pros and cons of each?
Can bullet proofs be added to btc?
I read the bulletproof research paper… didn't get past the first page…
If someone/something wants to destroy Bitcoin network, what are the easiest way that it could be archived ? And what are the likelyhood/possibility that it could happen ? (hoping to be hearing your answer in the next video, thank you)
My dearest respect for all you've done for the cryptoshpere Andreas, but you as a privacy advocate explaining Bulletproof and range proof WITHOUT even mentioning their latest successful implementation into a noteworthy cryptocurrency leaves a doubtful impression.
Constantly advocate for privacy and make a video on bulletproofs without mentioning Monero. Shame.
Unrelated question: Is that the new Thinkpad X1 Extreme? (or P1?)
Zoltan Istvan? Cool guy!
Thanks for the video!!
The proof that the numbers add to Zero is relatively simple, the tricky bit is proving they don't overflow – hence the name "Range proof"
And folks, wherever you are out there, just remember… Nacho Cheese, Nacho Bitcoin.
Always providing value to the ecosystem. Thank you.
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Are the developers touching themselfs while creating those names bulletproofs… atomic swaps… etc?
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is BulletProof a subset of MimbleWimble or a completely different thing? And if the miner fee is implied in the difference between the sum of the inputs and the sum of the outputs, how can the miner infer this amount when including the transaction in a block?
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Then sapling comes in for Zcash and provides scalability
Great! Another video 🙂 Like before watching. Because of Andreas.
We need more people like you in the space. Thanks for the videos.