Believe me - it&#x27;s not just you. Bitcoin has always been like this. You&#x27;ll have one smart guy who says something fairly interesting but somehow they never go into enough detail for anyone else to be able to reproduce their results. Because of this - if you want to be able to do anything interesting working by yourself is still the best way to do it.<p>Coincidentally: I was actually working on using ZKPs before this was posted and I had a hell of time even getting the library installed (Snarkfront.) In the end I resorted to emailing one of the devs who managed to get it to work since I&#x27;m probably one of less than 50 people world-wide who have ever used Snarklib before - (a group that would probably include Greg Maxwell too.) So yes - the bleeding edge stuff unfortunately does require a lot of time to master but sometime in the future I hope to post some proper documentation and put a virtual machine online so normal devs can play with this stuff without having to waste hours.