take the zk pill, you stay in the provable reality, and EF’s institutional privacy lead oskar thorén will show you how deep the rabbit hole goes…

oskar thorén is one of the leads in ethereum foundation's newest IPTF, or institutional privacy task force.

he's a freedom maxi, zero-knowledge wizard, taiwan expart, and a dear friend. an electric mix of sovereign energy!

oskar is one of the most well spoken advocates for privacy, zk, and self-custody, and in this interview where we hiked xiangshan in taipei, he holds nothing back to give us banger insight after banger insight.

we talked all things zk and privacy, including:

• how the snowden revelations ignited his passion
• his early work in Vac and Waku to create encrypted messaging back when early ethereum was only 3 pillars (eth/swarm/whisper)
• how it informed his passion for zero knowledge cryptography and the technical applications of it to privacy-preservation
• his contributions to MoPro, a zk mobile proving toolkit that's bringing zk ever closer to reality on our phones
• his work on https://zkintro.com where he creates friendly resources to zero-knowledge cryptography from beginners to engineers to researchers,
• how his latest venture as one of the co-leads in the EF's newest task force, the Institutional Privacy Task Force, is bringing cypherpunk-grade privacy to the world's biggest financial institutions, and
• his 3-pronged mindset to achieving self-sovereignty

you can catch the full interview on my youtube channel at: https://youtu.be/_BWRyIqCmVI

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