[ScottAaronson]

1. The P vs. NP survey is only 2 years old, so all the edits I'd make to it now would be rather minor ones: for example, including some more recent circuit lower bounds of Ryan Williams and others, some more no-go results for Geometric Complexity Theory, and Raz and Tal's BQP vs. PH breakthrough (which required a new circuit lower bound, though not of a kind that can evade the natural proofs barrier).

2. See here for my answer to someone who asked me for my thoughts on blockchain just a couple weeks ago: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3861#comment-1768247

[erdevs]

Thanks for the reply! And apologies I didn't realize the autocorrect on my phone turned "PvNP" to "PnP". I'll read up on the recent works you mentioned here. Appreciate the link to your comment on Blockchain technology as well.

If you still have time to answer questions.. is there any recent work in the cryptographic or blockchain space you see as standout? I haven't referred recently to any citations or updates, but found Ben-Sasson, Bentov, Horesh and Riabzev's recent work (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/046) on ZK-STARKs intriguing.