Video berusia 25 tahun menunjukkan pionir Bitcoin Hal Finney berbicara tentang bukti tanpa pengetahuan
A newly-unearthed video shows the Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney giving a talk on zero-knowledge proofs at the Crypto 98 conference. In the video, Finney talks about performing a zero-knowledge proof on a SHA-1 hash, demonstrating the existence of a cryptographically scrambled message without disclosing any details about the message. At the time of Finneys talk, zero-knowledge proofs were known to be theoretically possible, but were generally viewed as inefficient or unfeasible. “I wanted to find out just how inefficient or impractical they really are,” Finney says in the video before proposing a zero-knowledge proof system. Much of Finney‘s life was marked by challenging the boundaries of what was deemed possible. In 2009, the cypherpunk was the first bitcoin recipient, receiving ten bitcoin from the cryptocurrency’s pseudonymous founder Satoshi Nakamoto. The same year, Finney was diagnosed with ALS. Just shortly after, he wrote in a blog post: “[M]y dream is to contribute to open source software projects even from within an immobile body. That will be a life very much worth living.” Finney died in 2014 and is cryopreserved in Arizona. The subject of Finneys 25-year old berbicara remains vexing today. Ethereum layer-2s are locked in an arms race building zero-knowledge proofs to scale the
