Ariel Gabizon on his work with zkSNARKs and the beauty of math

In this week’s episode, we welcome Ariel Gabizon, previously a Electric Coin Company (Zcash) engineer and now a cryptographer working on zero knowledge constructions for https://filecoin.io/ (Filecoin). Ariel has worked closely with some of the most exciting projects and researchers pushing the boundaries on zero knowledge research. He is also the person who discovered the Zcash bug (along with Sean Bowe and Zooko). In this episode, we explore his journey into the space, what inspires him, and what exciting new paradigms he is exploring today! Here are some of the articles and topics he mentions: https://users.cs.fiu.edu/%7Egiri/teach/5420/f01/LundIPS.pdf (Algebraic Methods for Interactive Proof Systems) https://electriccoin.co/blog/zcash-counterfeiting-vulnerability-successfully-remediated/ (ECC (Zcash) Vulnerability Blog post) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Riemann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Riemann) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_function_field (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_function_field) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Hasse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Hasse) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse_principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse_principle) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Weil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Weil) Thank you to our sponsor this week https://starkware.co (StarkWare) StarkWare will be presenting the https://starkware.co/starkware-sessions/ (StarkWare Sessions) - on Sept 16th in Tel Aviv. The event will bring together some of the brightest minds in zero knowledge research from both the academic and application spheres. Topics that will be discussed are self-custodial trading, STARKs for Layer 1, STARK-friendly hash functions and other cool things you can do with STARK proofs. Use the code Zkpodcast for 20% off the tickets - > https://starkware.co/starkware-sessions/ (https://starkware.co/starkware-sessions/) If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm (@zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA (https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA) Support our Gitcoin Grant - https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast (https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast) Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ