true_repairman

~15 minute read about alien gifts to a small and childish civilisation.

I think the point is, that a zero knowledge proof only works between two parties, the proofer and the verifier. If I want to proof something to you I cant just say "Hey I showed it to Bob over there. Ask him if I'm telling the truth." But that doesnt really come through in the analogy.

Why should bystanders not know? It seems like Micks proof is an attempt at fame, so he would want everybody to know.

So if wizard = programmer, most charactes in Harry Potter wouldnt be wizards. Maybe you could call them spell users?

If this would work for stocks aswell... https://xkcd.com/2270/

Title made me think of a browser plugin, that plays a sound everytime a tracker is loaded. But this is also cool.

Firefox is not used in 68.

The people of Penistone probably have some good ones.

What a shame that Jack left. We could live in a utopia where every tweet is an NFT in the Twitter Blockchain...

"Oh my god the government is feeding us dead babies!" would probably be up there.