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Integrity is doing the right thing when you don’t have to—when no one else is looking or will ever know.

Don't trust, verify.

Bitcoin, the first integrity web, implemented money alone. Ethereum then became the first integrity web able to support any social function expressible by computer programs.

A party performs calculations and at the same time computes the proof... other parties can later run the proof verification algorithm to ensure that the result was computed correctly.

We are moving from an 'Innocence Web,' where we trusted institutions to be good, to an 'Integrity Web,' where we use math to ensure they cannot be bad.

The Integrity Web is a web in which integrity is not something you trust; it is something you verify.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age... We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

‘Can't be evil’ is a lot more powerful than ‘don't be evil.’

What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.

The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

We're moving to a trustless vision of security based on cryptography and verification of code.

Over time, zero-knowledge proofs will become more significant than all other blockchain primitives combined.

ZK-SNARKs and zk-STARKs will become as foundational to blockchain's future as public-key cryptography became to the internet.