concerns and status
4.4.2Quantum state decoherence
4.4.3Entanglement property of qubits
4.4.4Quantum information processors
4.5Bell Inequalities and Quantum Computing
4.5.1Introduction to inequalities
4.6Practical Applications of Entanglement: NIST Randomness Beacon
Part 2 Blockchain and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
5.1Introduction: Functionality and Scalability Upgrades
5.2Computational Verification and Selectable Trust Models
5.3Layer 2 and the Lightning Network
5.3.1Introduction to the Lightning Network
5.3.2Basic routing on the Lightning Network
5.3.3Smart routing: Sphinx routing and rendez-vous routing
5.3.4A new layer in the Lightning Network: Channel factories
5.3.5Smart routing through atomic multi-path routing
5.4World Economic History on Replay
5.5Verifiable Markets, Marketplaces, Gaming, Stablecoins
5.6.1Next-generation classical consensus
5.6.2Next-generation PBFT: Algorand and DFINITY
5.6.3Quantum Byzantine Agreement
6.1.1Quantum-secure blockchains and quantum-based logic
6.1.2Proposal for quantum Bitcoin
6.1.3Quantum consensus: Grover’s algorithm, quantum annealing, light
6.3Quantum Networks: A Deeper Dive
6.3.1The internet’s new infrastructure: Entanglement routing
6.4Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Key Distribution
6.4.2Satellite-based quantum key distribution: Global space race
6.5Quantum Security: Blockchain Risk of Quantum Attack
6.5.1Risk of quantum attack in authentication
6.5.2Risk of quantum attack in mining
6.6Quantum-Resistant Cryptography for Blockchains
Chapter 7Zero-Knowledge Proof Technology
7.1Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Basic Concept
7.2Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Public Key Infrastructure Cryptography
7.2.1Public key infrastructure
7.3Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Interactive Proofs
7.3.1Interactive proofs: Graph isomorphism example
7.4Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Blockchains
7.4.1Zero-knowledge proofs: Range proofs
7.4.2Unspent transaction outputs model
7.5State-of-the-Art: SNARKs, Bulletproofs, and STARKs