Linus was living in Santa Teresa, a remote beach town on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula that has one ATM machine with a 10 p.m. curfew. It drove Linus nuts and forced him to research alternative payment methods. He stumbled upon Bitcoin, befriended the well-respected “Bitcoin sorcerer” Ruben Somsen (who coined the term “ZeroSync”),and the rest, as they say, is history.
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/03/28/newly-formed-zerosync-association-brings-zero-knowledge-proofs-to-bitcoin/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines