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David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run

1/4/2026, 5:03:04 PM

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I said previously: "No tech from blockchain dates later than 2001. Crypto added nothing." https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115810916143765604

Both here and on bsky, I got crypto fans saying "ah ah ah zero knowledge proofs!" These are indeed used in Monero (money laundering coin) and assorted failed money laundering coins!

However, claiming *credit* to cryptocurrency for ZKPs seems implausible.

I'm actually looking into this and I can find shit that isn't proposals for other failed money laundering coins.

Closest a proponent got was, well, cryptocurrency *funded* it. (No examples, just the blank statment.)

So I'm asking those claiming cryptocurrency drove ZK proof research and uses: which papers with which effects and which resulting products are you thinking of? With checkable details. Thanks.

David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)

Statements of the form "the AI bubble will crash but the *technology* will remain" are vacuous. Stop making them. The useful tech is the transformer, which already existed and was useful. Generative AI brings no new usefulness to the table, even in business terms, without a VC-funded bubble. The same guys were making the same vacuous statement about bitcoin and blockchain. No tech from blockchain dates later than 2001. Crypto added nothing. Whether AI or crypto, it's a dumb statement shallow people make thinking it makes them sound smart. and if you follow up with "but it's useful to meeeeeeeeee" I'll just block you. Assume I've heard your excuse and it's bad. I can't think of a single excuse of the "AI is here to stay" form that survives the crash. Here's a catalogue: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/ai-is-here-to-stay-is-it-though-what-do-you-mean-stay/ even "the maths will remain" isn't for sure. ML as a research field has been heavily corrupted by LLM money, down to accepting spinning a roulette wheel in methodology. ML is headed for one doozy of a replication crisis, if they don't just throw out most of the past few years. Start over at 2022, maybe. AI is a room full of VCs who've gone from wondering who's the bagholder to wondering if they're *all* the bagholders meanwhile Jensen is driving off in a dumptruck filled with all their actual dollar money, whistling a jaunty tune.

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