Hey anon, do you understand how amazing the zkSnarks technology is? if so, let me know in the comments or let me help you understand it (by asking your question). 

Hint: zero-knowledge/privacy is just one of the properties, but not the most wonderful one.

It's mind-blowing. It is a new paradigm for computer science. Specially the last advances on zkVMs.

In blockchain, decentralized tech and open source since 2011. Tech lead at @vocdoni. 

Not very active on social networks.

Following, some main history achievements related to the crypto world.

- Fundamental ideas of zero-knowledge proofs, first published in 1990
- 2016, zcash launched it was a very raw thing, just useful for one very specific purpose.
- 2018, my friend Jordi Baylina launched Circom, a general purpose programming language that allows to build almost anything.
- 2019, PLONK was engineered. Removing the main pain-point, the specific trusted setup. 
- 2020/21 the zkRollups, a new way to compress blockchain transactions in a cryptographic verifiable way. Allowing high scalability.
- 2023 the zkEVM, crypto-magicians managed to implement all the ethereum op-codes into zkSnark.
- 2024 the zkVM, a general purpose virtual machine that can run almost any program using standard programming languages (LLVM compatible)

What's next?? Probably dedicated hardware (ASICs) to make computation less expensive and faster.