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Sean Bowe and Dev Ojha: Architecture of Freedom

Sean Bowe and Dev Ojha: Architecture of Freedom

Arjun Khemani Podcast

April 4, 20261h 22m

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Show Notes

Sean Bowe is a core cryptographer and engineer who played a major role in building Zcash’s technology.

Dev Ojha, also a cryptographer, is the founder of Osmosis. He is now working on helping Zcash scale and go post quantum.

Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.

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Timestamps

0:00 - Why Dev’s working on Zcash

12:24 - AI is surveillance’s ultimate weapon

13:33 - Encrypted money must scale

15:49 - Compliant “privacy” is an oxymoron

19:25 - PIR for scaling Zcash

36:35 - How Tachyon and PIR work hand in hand

43:47 - Quantum recoverability

47:18 - Is quantum the last cryptography problem?

51:41 - Easier coinholder voting process

1:03:15 - Zcash roadmap

1:17:34 - What Zcash looks like at scale



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