#46 – Andrew Miller on TEEs, account delegation, research, and the early days in Bitcoin

This is my conversation with Andrew Miller who is working on product at Teleport, and is also Associate Director at IC3 and Board Member at the Zcash Foundation.

Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) intro
- (00:00:59) from bitcoin research to privacy, ZKPs, and MPC
- (00:13:23) trust models and threat vectors to TEEs
- (00:21:16) what is possible with trustless TEEs?
- (00:38:37) TEEs-based internet agents
- (00:45:41) Dstack, a p2p architecture for TEEs
- (00:52:50) learnings as a researcher
- (00:58:42) sponsor: Splits
- (00:59:25) pathfinding in research
- (01:06:11) 2011 bitcoin unboxing and the early bitcoin ecosystem
- (01:17:54) vision for the future
- (01:21:22) outro

Links:
- Andrew on X: https://x.com/socrates1024
- Andrew on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Socrates1024
- Andrew's research: https://soc1024.ece.illinois.edu
- Personal site: https://soc1024.com
- Zero Trust Execution Environments paper: https://writings.flashbots.net/ZTEE
- Zcash Foundation: https://zfnd.org
- IC3: https://www.ic3.gov

Thank you to our sponsor for making this podcast possible:
- Splits: https://splits.org

Into the Bytecode:
- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab
- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.