For all the idots dunking on this guy because he is working on eTheRiUm or because he is working on "privacy tech" in public: Maybe you should take the time and learn what "zero knowledge proofs" (zkp) are and what the implications of criminalising research on them are. A zkp is a cryptographic way of proving something without having to publish all the data that you are proving. While this can be used to increase privacy, one of the main use cases in a blockchain context is improved scaling. Because you can prove transactions happened, without publishing them on chain. There are multiple projects exploring how zkps can be used to build new L2s on Bitcoin and how to use them to improve the existing L2s. If zkp research is criminalised for their potential to increase privacy, while their main usecase is something else, this sets a dangerous precident. A lot of tech can be used to increase privacy and a lot of that tech is being integrated into bitcoin and the layers on top of it. This is putting a target on a lot of Bitcoin developers backs, even if they are not primarily working on privacy. So think before you post, you morons.