While SecureDrop is a tool to help people securely send messages and documents to the journalists, the collaborative news web3 website might help people to more directly engage in the news making. It could enable secure and anonymous collaboration on the stories without fearing that the identities of the collaborators would be revealed. Each collaborator could add whatever content (paragraph, photo, drawing) to the story, while other collaborators could vote whether the added content is to be included in the story or not. Each added content would need to reach a certain threshold to be accepted. It might be interesting to have a functionality to try to reach a consensus on the topics that split the population in two groups. For example, people from Xinjiang might work on a story of China’s repression of the Uighurs. The news might have a different effect on the readers if one could see a certain number of people collaboratively worked on the story and validated it. Furthermore, the collaborators might be able to prove that they belong to a particular group or that they live in a particular area. It is known, for example, that people in China tend to believe their government and do not trust foreign newsrooms reporting about the repression of the Uighurs. It might be valuable to offer a functionality where people could work together on verifying the facts, like some kind of web3 version of Taiwan FactCheck Center. Another example of a collaborative story might be people reporting on the drone attacks, like the story by The Correspondent, but coming from the people that really experienced the attack. Again, the collaborators might be able to prove they are coming from a country or region where the attack happened. If one or two collaborators would confirm the story, it might not be very convincing, but with tens or hundreds of collaborators confirming a particular story, the story might obtain a higher credibility. Another example is the civil war in Yemen. The news about the tragedy in Yemen is overshadowed in most of the world by news about soccer, ChatGPT, and high-protein foods. Seeing a report made by people in Yemen might bring some more visibility to the deadly problems of that part of the world.

Coron paper: http://www.crypto-uni.lu/jscoron/publications/bivariate.pdf. Let's have a form: { "p": 24554940634497023, "iso_degree": 4350, "quadratic_form": 12 * x1^2 + 31 * x1 * x2 + 9 * x1 * x3^2 + 9 * x3 * x4^3 + 19 * x4^4, "sol": [1, 9, 8, 3], "known_variables": [],

Merkle Patricia Trie FullNode has an array with 17 elements: FullNode struct { Children [17]Node flags nodeFlag } It seems like the 17th element is never used. Is this true (needed for MPT circuit)? Why does it seem so?