Combining Smart Contracts, Crypto Currency, Security, and Zero Knowledge Proofs

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Anish Mohammad, advisor to Blockchain and Crypto currency companies, shares his insights about the future of Smart Contracts, crypto currencies, Security, Quantum Computing, and combining zero knowledge proofs with smart contracts on a blockchain.
Anish also talks about the Bitcoin Blockchain Block Size debate and the Segregated Witness concept.
On smart contracts, he goes in detail about the process and vulnerability the verification process might entail. Highlighting VM tampering, Logic Bombs, DoS and other forms of attacks that might impact security.
We also talked about Privacy Vs Transparency in context of blockchain what roles governments around the world may play as crypto currency use becomes more widespread and blockchain based systems proliferate.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies is poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. Almost here
0:14.3	means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. We're just around the
0:18.8	corner from Bitcoin to Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:26.0	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs from Future Tech Podcast, almost here around the corner technology.
0:33.0	They have a very special guest, Anish, Muhammad.
0:36.0	He's an advisor to a lot of startups in the blockchain and cryptocurrency realm.
0:41.0	And my suspicion is that he has many more accolades that he could better describe
0:45.9	than I could.
0:46.9	How you doing Nanish?
0:48.9	I'm doing good.
0:50.9	Thank you for God, I have me on the call. Yeah. Thank you for having me on the call.
0:53.0	Yeah. Can you tell listeners a little bit about your background because it seems pretty extensive?
1:00.0	Well, I wouldn't put it that way. It's just that I have a degree in medicine. I have two other
1:05.9	degrees in mathematics. I spend some time working in various research labs. Then a bit of, spend a bit of time doing strategy consulting and
1:15.4	instead of bit of time in banking. That's more or less what it is.
1:20.3	Okay. And so your most current work is, tell me if I'm correct, is you're an advisor and possibly an investor in startups in the blockchain and cryptocurrency world?
1:32.0	Yeah, I mean, I do have a portfolio of startups and those include the ones in, you know,
1:39.4	a blockchain and a company currency.
1:41.0	I do advise a couple outside that as well.
1:44.0	Okay.
1:45.0	Yeah, what I like to talk about if you're alright with it is
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