Studio1: PANEL - TRULY ANONYMOUS CRYPTOCURRENCIES
Channel: Paralelní Polis
Date: 2018-10-06

The panel discussion with Monero, Zcash, HORIZEN people will raise both philosophical and technical questions related to truly anonymous cryptocurrencies. What impact will they have on our society? How can the governments cope with their massive use? 

Moderator: Pavol Lupták
Panelists: binaryFate, Arno Pfefferling, Peter Todd


binaryFate
BIO
Post-doctoral researcher in the field of AI and optimisation algorithms; early Bitcoin advocate and entrepreneur; Monero contributor and supporter since its inception.

ABSTRACT - Fungibility is the real deal
Having run a Bitcoin business early on, I encountered first hand the problems associated with its transparency and inherent lack of fungibility. I believe it is important to educate about the relation between privacy and fungibility, the implications of mass surveillance enabled by our technology and financial system, and that the aim of so-called "privacy cryptocurrencies" is actually to provide the basic fungibility we must expect from a functional currency.


Arno Pfefferling
BIO
Arno Pfefferling is 30 years old, holds a M.Sc. degree in material science from Freiberg (Saxony) and have worked since 2011 in the semiconductor industry. Got in touch with DLT in late 2016 and work since September 2017 for HORIZEN, a privacy coin with core features from BITCOIN, ZEC, DASH. After almost twelve months in the ZEN BLOCKCHAIN FOUNDATION the responsibility which Arno currently has is for business development within the Central European Region. Spreading the spirit of ZEN to continuously grow the community as well as enable individual blockchain use-cases which needs vital privacy features. Long term goal is to be part of a full secured economic platform where participants can use HORIZEN for crypto payments, ZenChat for anonymous messaging, ZenHide for borderless internet access, ZenPub for decentralized file storage, ZenGrid for edge computing power and ZenHelp as Q&A desk. All under the mission of lead blockchain technological forefront & contribute to humanity through innovation.

ABSTRACT - Truly Anonymous Cryptocurrencies
What is privacy in a digital 100% decentralized eco-system and where do I see the zk-SNARK technology in comparison to Monero, Bitcoin and next generation technics like Mimblewimble and so on. This are points which I would like to discuss within the panel. 


Peter Todd
BIO
Peter Todd is an applied cryptography consultant known for his work on the OpenTimestamps project, Bitcoin protocol research, and contributions to the Bitcoin Core project.