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Episode 251: Exploring RISC Zero with Brian Retford and Jeremy Bruestle

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How Many Cycles Per Second Does Your CPU Run At?

ZKPs have this neat property for a system like that where you can determine the longest chain, not necessarily by number of transactions. So as you roll up all the ZK proofs, you know exactly how many cycles sort of went into every leaf or branch of your tree. And we're looking at more like on the 1 megahertz, so about a million instructions per second.

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