#160: Matthew Niemerg on Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Privacy and Aleph Zero

Matthew Niemerg, Ph.D., is the co-founder and president of Aleph Zero Foundation—a Swiss non-profit offering a new infrastructure layer with a scalable plug-and-play privacy solution leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and Secure Multiparty Computation (sMPC). Mathew is also a Ph.D. in Mathematics in the area of numerical algebraic geometry, a Simons-Berkeley Fellow, and an IBM Center of Excellence Fellow in High-Performance Computing.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Math and computer science
- Voluntary economies
- Aleph Zero
- Zero-knowledge proofs
- zk-SNARKs
- Privacy 101
- Liminal - original privacy framework
- Miner Extractable Value (MEV) attacks
- Multichain privacy layers

Aleph Zero Foundation
Website: alephzero.org
Twitter: @Aleph__Zero
LinkedIn: Aleph Zero
Discord: discord.gg/alephzero

Matthew Niemerg
Twitter: @matthewniemerg
LinkedIn: Matthew Niemerg, Ph.D.

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