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A lot of (manual) work went into making this simple demo happen.

These are some interesting reflections on the present state of the tech by Gregory Maxwell:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/47rk85/first_succe...

I suspect there's a great opportunity here for startups. The theory is sound, and tooling (UX) needs to be built around it.

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I think the tooling will improve significantly this year and you should see people able to build protocols with zkSNARKs soon -- without spending days figuring out how everything works.

Ahmed Kosba has been working on jSnark (https://github.com/akosba/jsnark).

I'm building something in Rust called bellman (https://github.com/ebfull/bellman) which should make it easier to construct circuits safely and build these proofs easier, but it's in its early stages.

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