Author: Sebastian D’Anconia
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Understanding the Business Cycle
My first introduction to the truth behind the business cycle was Alan Greenspan’s 1967 essay, “Gold and Economic Freedom”, which was published in Ayn Rand’s book, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. You can read the essay here or here. After giving a theoretical justification for the gold standard, Greenspan goes on to explain how the Great…
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Some Notes on Polynomial Commitment in Zero Knowledge Proofs
Encode Club zkEVM Bootcamp (presented by ZKsync) wrapped up about a week ago. Although I’ve had lots of exposure to polynomials, discrete elliptic curves, and finite fields, it took me longer to wrap my head around the central feature of Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs)—how did they prove the correctness of a computation without the Verifier…