Episode 103: Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau - a podcast by Fredrik Harrysson, Anna Rose

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Joseph Bonneau (http://jbonneau.com/), Assistant Professor at NYU and co-author on the Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) paper. We discuss VDFs, what they are, how they were developed and what they can be used for.
Here are a few links that we reference:Blockchain 101: Randomness episode with Justin Drake (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/74)
Verifiable Delay Functions by Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bünz, and Ben Fisch (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/601.pdf)vdfresearch.org (https://vdfresearch.org/)
Numbers Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game)A Programmer Solved a 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle (https://www.wired.com/story/a-programmer-solved-a-20-year-old-forgotten-crypto-puzzle/)
Bitcoin Book (http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/)Thank you to this week's sponsor Trail of Bits (https://trailofbits.com)
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