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# On April 14, 2025 at 19:39

Was chatting with an AI about Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs and how they relate to backtraces and public-key crypto (concepts I know):

> Imagine a PHP backtrace, turned into a spreadsheet, hashed into a Merkle root, and then proved using fancy math that it obeyed all your function contracts without ever showing you the contents. 🤯