Paper's abstract below 👇👇

14 years later, Sander & Ta-Shma use ZKPs for anonymous payments 🤯
17 years later, @zcash launches!
If only Satoshi read [ST99]...
Well, we'd still be here because [GGPR13] was not out yet ()

Lots of interesting things in [ST99] if you look closely.
First, Merkle forests (less succinctly known as Merkle mountain rages)👇

Second, nullifiers as serial numbers that are one-way hashed with some randomness.

Surprisingly, I think I just found an error with their "invalidation of funds" protocol (which is a bad idea anyway)

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