In this week's episode, we chat with Brian Gu (https://twitter.com/bgu33), a student at MIT and creator of the Dark Forest (https://twitter.com/darkforest_eth) game. We chat about education, blockchain based games and what inspired his work on the Dark Forest game. We then dig into how this game creates an incomplete information game space by using zkSNARKs to create a “cryptographic fog of war” and more!
As described on their blog, Dark Forest (https://blog.zkga.me/announcing-darkforest) is an MMO space-conquest game where players discover and conquer planets in an infinite, procedurally-generated, cryptographically-specified universe.
Find out more about the game here: https://zkga.me/
Least Authority (https://leastauthority.com/) is a team of security researchers, open source developers, privacy advocates, and cryptographers focused is on securing distributed systems: blockchain, peer-to-peer and other approaches to systems built with the principle of least authority. They are known for security audits and reviews like the Eth 2.0 Specification, Protocol Lab's Gossipsub Protocol, Zcash Sapling upgrade, & Tezos Foundation's TzBTC, as well as their work with zero knowledge proofs integrated into the Tahoe-LAFS (secure distributed file store) with "ZKAPs: zero knowledge access passes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swLBgaksy3o)".
They are currently looking for a technical writer to help the Least Authority team write security research and audit reports, open source technical documentation and privacy analysis statements on technical approaches.
Find out more here: leastauthority.com/zkpodcast (https://leastauthority.com/zkpodcast)
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