Who knows what the situation is?
On a business trip with a colleague, we returned to the hotel after dinner.
As we were about to part ways, she smiled and asked me: Who sings 'Glorious Years'?
Without thinking, I replied: Wong Ka Kui. She gently shook her head and turned to leave.
Only later did I realize that some opportunities are lost not because you didn't hear, but because you only understood the literal meaning.
In that moment, I suddenly thought of @MidnightNetwork . Because what Midnight really wants to deal with may not be how to hide data, but whether the system will only interpret the world literally.
It’s really strange, but it just connected in an instant, because many blockchain systems are quite rigid. They are particularly obsessed with facts; if you want them to acknowledge something, you often need to lay everything bare for them to see before they feel secure.
However, in the real world, judgment is often not based on how many facts you present, but rather on whether the conditions are met.
This is where I found myself increasingly captivated by $NIGHT ,
It wants to move an old rule that everyone is too lazy to dismantle. Not that low-level hide-and-seek, but rather forcibly shifting the focus of blockchain from fully publicizing facts to examining whether conditions are met.
This place is really getting more sinister the more I think about it. The document keeps talking about public state, private state, and local computation with zero-knowledge proofs, and this step is particularly crucial. Once public state and private state are separated, the chain inherently cannot obtain complete facts. Some things remain local, while some are only brought out through proof.
So what can the system still verify?
It’s no longer about whether you’ve put all the facts on the table, but rather whether the condition holds under the premise that you do not disclose all details. Midnight is more like forcing the system to learn not to blindly rely on the ledger, but to judge conditions.
Thus, what $NIGHT truly wants to change is not the surface of privacy, but to shift the underlying logic of the chain from recording facts to gradually twisting it towards verifying conditions. #night
On a business trip with a colleague, we returned to the hotel after dinner.
As we were about to part ways, she smiled and asked me: Who sings 'Glorious Years'?
Without thinking, I replied: Wong Ka Kui. She gently shook her head and turned to leave.
Only later did I realize that some opportunities are lost not because you didn't hear, but because you only understood the literal meaning.
In that moment, I suddenly thought of @MidnightNetwork . Because what Midnight really wants to deal with may not be how to hide data, but whether the system will only interpret the world literally.
It’s really strange, but it just connected in an instant, because many blockchain systems are quite rigid. They are particularly obsessed with facts; if you want them to acknowledge something, you often need to lay everything bare for them to see before they feel secure.
However, in the real world, judgment is often not based on how many facts you present, but rather on whether the conditions are met.
This is where I found myself increasingly captivated by $NIGHT ,
It wants to move an old rule that everyone is too lazy to dismantle. Not that low-level hide-and-seek, but rather forcibly shifting the focus of blockchain from fully publicizing facts to examining whether conditions are met.
This place is really getting more sinister the more I think about it. The document keeps talking about public state, private state, and local computation with zero-knowledge proofs, and this step is particularly crucial. Once public state and private state are separated, the chain inherently cannot obtain complete facts. Some things remain local, while some are only brought out through proof.
So what can the system still verify?
It’s no longer about whether you’ve put all the facts on the table, but rather whether the condition holds under the premise that you do not disclose all details. Midnight is more like forcing the system to learn not to blindly rely on the ledger, but to judge conditions.
Thus, what $NIGHT truly wants to change is not the surface of privacy, but to shift the underlying logic of the chain from recording facts to gradually twisting it towards verifying conditions. #night