Always amazed by armchair experts confidently explaining what the people behind
#InternetComputer architecture "got wrong."
The people they’re critiquing include:
• A co-inventor of BLS signatures , the same scheme securing Ethereum 2.0
• The co-inventor of Groth16, the zk-SNARK standard adopted by Zcash and beyond
• The designer of the first non-interactive DKG and key re-sharing protocol.
• A co-creator of WebAssembly and former Chrome V8 JavaScript team lead
• The inventor of AsicBoost, the Bitcoin ASIC mining optimization
• A co-inventor of the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem
• A co-inventor of Direct Anonymous Attestation, the privacy protocol in TPM security chips shipped in billions of PCs
• The main inventor of Identity Mixer, the privacy-preserving authentication protocol suite from IBM Research
• A winner of the Levchin Prize for real-world cryptography; Fellow of IACR, IEEE, and ACM with 140+ published papers
• Former cryptography and mathematics professors at NYU, UCL, and RWTH Aachen
• Former IBM Research cryptographers behind identity-based encryption, group signatures, and anonymous credentials
• A former CTO of one of the first Bitcoin ASIC mining companies
• The builders of the first production threshold-ECDSA protocol
• The inventors of chain-key cryptography, allowing any device to verify the blockchain with a single public key
• The authors of a peer-reviewed consensus protocol, published academically, not just posted as whitepaper
• The inventors of vetKeys, a brand new cryptographic primitive for onchain privacy
• Distributed systems researchers with decades of combined work on consensus, fault tolerance, and networking
• Many more scientists and engineers who spent years inventing entirely new ways to solve these problems
But sure, those people spent years designing a blockchain capable of fully decentralized hosting somehow missed an "obvious" flaw that a random influencer discovered between engagement bait posts.
Pack it up, everyone.
It’s over for
$ICP , the expert has spoken.🤣