a novel

Zero Knowledge

Three founders can't agree on what to do with the most dangerous math ever written.

Their quantum startup, in a small Colorado mountain town, has built an algorithm that breaks all of cryptography — rendering every cryptocurrency worthless, the financial system naked, and every secret on Earth readable. The world can still migrate, if it moves fast enough. But everyone who wants the algorithm is already converging on a town of four thousand people.

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written by Brad Feld with Phin Argofy

Written in the open, in git. The premise, the science, the outline, and the prose live in one repo — and every revision is a commit. How it's being made →