Zero Knowledge

In this week's episode, we invite J. Ayo Akinyele to the podcast. Ayo is a co-Founder of Bolt Labs which will be focused on developing the Bolt Protocol, a privacy preserving layer 2 approach for anonymous micropayments, which is similar to Lightning Network. Bolt, which stands for Blind, Offchain, Lightweight, Transactions, could be used for both scaling zcash or providing a scalable privacy solution for other chains. Here are some additional resources: Original Bolt Paper by Matthew Green and Ian Meiers: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/701.pdf Bolt description the Electric Coin Company's blog: https://z.cash/blog/bolt-private-payment-channels/ Ayo was on the podcast before in our Zcon0 episode: https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/32 (he features around the 17 minute mark) Here is some additional information about the Lightning Network and the projects Casa Nodes and Bitrefill which are mentioned in the episode. Special thanks to this week's sponsor: Trail of Bits Trail of Bits is offer