👨‍🏫 Hal Finney's ZK Proofs Presentation \ stacker news ~bitcoin

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634 sats \ 7 comments \ @bitcal 6h bitcoin

On August 26, 1998, Hal Finney gave a presentation at the Crypto 98 conference titled "A zero-knowledge proof of possession of a pre-image of a SHA-1 hash."

At the time, while theoretically known, zero-knowledge proofs were considered largely inefficient or impractical due to hardware limitations.

Finney's presentation explored the practicality of these proofs.

Details: https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748864268.537553/index.htmlsinglefile.html

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16 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tony 5h

There are over 500 Bitcoin historical events in Bitcoin Calendar, and I can’t post all of them in a timely manner. Stacker News team promised to help with automation in a few weeks #1092909

For now I’ll post the most interesting ones whenever I can.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 3h

It's great seeing and hearing him alive and healthy. This has been posted many times on Stacker News, but it's good to watch again.

111 sats \ 2 replies \ @Tony 3h

Yes, I saw the posts were already, but I thought this was a good reminder as today is the anniversary of his speech (exactly 27 years ago) plus there is a link to additional info about the conference and stuff.

Actually the attached link is kinda broken - needs extra step to open the archived page. here's the clearer one: https://archive.bitcoin-calendar.org/archive/1748864268.537553/index.html#

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 2h

Yes, you certainly added value. I didn't mean that remark as a criticism.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tony 2h

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Cool! I didn’t take it the wrong way too. I just often over elaborate on stuff 😅

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 3h

Very cool find! I didn't know about this talk.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcal OP 3h

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