A Giant Anthill, Humanity's Future and ZK with Karel Kubat
5 September 2024
57 mins 59 secs
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About this Episode
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Karel Kubat from Union
Karel Kubat is passionate about the transformative potential of technology, particularly in AI and cryptocurrency, emphasizing the importance of individual opinion in a rapidly changing world. He views society as a decentralized "giant anthill," where our last vestige of humanity lies in our ability to think independently amidst technological advancements.
Union is a hyper-efficient zero-knowledge infrastructure for secure message passing, asset transfers, NFTs, and DeFi, relying on consensus verification without third-party dependencies. Utilizing advanced Zero-Knowledge Cryptography and BLS signatures, Union delivers the fastest, most secure inter-blockchain communication protocol (IBC) globally
We spoke to Karel Kubat about Union and:
- Falling in love with statistics
- Expense on security
- AI or Crypto
- Technologies that really could shift humanity
- At some point, we started losing our concentration
- The only thing that we really have is our ability to form opinions
- Our final vestige humanity we're kind of now offloading
- Crypto tells you, form your own opinions
- Fully open Wild West
- There is no big plan
- Human society is a giant anthill
- Short-term privacy for MEV-resistant
- Contribution to humanity
Timestamps
00:00 – 05:21 : Intro
05:21 -- 14:20 : Validators
14:20 -- 25:44 : Changing the world
25:44 -- 30:50 : Consensus and the future
30:50 -- 37:30 : ZK proofs for a teenager
37:30 -- 43:25 : What are ZK ceremonies?
43:10 -- 55:00 : Privacy
55:00 – 57:59 : The Blitz
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