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by sillyinseattle 1526 days ago
Very wide range. On the cryptography side: new signature schemes, cryptographic proof systems. Research on voting systems, economic incentive design, coordination and trust problems with value transfers (bridges) across different chains, VM + compiler design for smart contract execution
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all things crypto has been pretending to work on for more than a decade while riding the work of an individual research paper from the 1970s which explained, at the end of the paper, why this should never be used for money

y'all some junior koch brothers