What I Understood Of Quantum Zero Knowledge Proofs With My 2 Braincells

I was intrigued by the counter intuitive term “zero knowledge proofs”… what does it mean? Proofs with no starting information? Proofs that don’t prove anything? Or something else? I attempt to explain everything to past me to the best of my abilities. It is unfortunate that most of the work on ZKPs are for cryptocurrency, a topic I am not very interested in, and a controvertial topic too at times. But I think there were some very neat concepts in there which I wanted to do justice.

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