Enjoyed re-reading this long thread (beginning in 2017) where Daira-Emma Hopwood, Sean Bowe, Ariel Gabizon, HarryR, Dmitry Khovratovich, dice2-win, Tomer Ashur, Daniel Lubarov, and Weikeng Chen collaborated on the new secure hash functions like Poseidon. https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/2233
Wisdom from conversations with my gf: sports, politics, and crypto trading are zero-sum. If someone else does worse, you’re doing better. But the rest of life is positive-sum: if someone else does better, you’re doing better too.