Maybe we'll see a solid societal use case for zero-knowledge proofs here, establishing one had a set of documents at a given date without revealing them.
replyyou can just write a doc with your proof/idea, hash it and post that hash on twitter
replyYes, you can. So maybe we'll see an adoption of that paradigm, or another. The value of a ZKP is that you can optionally prove some facts up front about the file, whereas a normal hash is all-or-nothing. You can't reveal part of the information because you need the entire contents to properly verify the hash.
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replyThanks for putting me onto this, that was new to me. And of course Huygens was all over this idea.
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replyso what would the new incentives be? don't publish... and get paid anyway?
replyAt least that's how traditional Western universities used to work. The profs sometimes published something, and they taught students. Looking at science back then, it seemed to work out rather well.
replyTrue.
replyIf possible, this would be ideal.
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