Episode 338: On Trust Infrastructure with Arnaud Schenk
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This week Anna) and Nico) chat with Arnaud Schenk), one of the original co-founders of Aztec) and creator of the Polaris Fellowship). They discuss Arnaud’s recent blog post ‘On Trust Infrastructure’, exploring the down sides of a trustless system, the need to make online community building more possible and how programmable cryptography may play a role in these solutions. They explore the history of computer culture, the rejection of institutions by mid-90s internet culture and how the seeds for this were set by the 60s counterculture.
Here’s some additional links for this episode:
05:09 * Episode 75: Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson) 05:09 * Episode 176: Zk-zk-rollup & zk.money with Zac and Joe from Aztec) 05:09 * Episode 273: History of Plonk, Noir, and the building of Aztec 3) 07:38 * Episode 237: Exploring ZK Research with Jens Groth) 20:01 * Into the deep end: making sense of PLONK - Zac Williamson (CTO, Aztec Protocol)) 23:55 * Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work by Michael P. Farrell) 27:05 * No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior by Joshua Meyrowitz) 29:33 * On Trust Infrastructure by Arnaud Schenk) 39:28 * Crypto's Three Body Problem by Lotti, Shorin, Hart) 48:13 * Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell by Vitalik Buterin) 52:21 * From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner) 52:21 * The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe)
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