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Episode 250: What's the Deal with Hash Functions?

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Is There a Need to Reduce the Number of Rounds in a Smart Contract?

JP: In designing these trying to reduce the number of rounds this is the feature that i'm not really understanding in what you're describing. There are some applications where you don't really care about maybe a 50 percent speed up but at scale where every nanosecond counts it can have a tremendous impact. It's even amplified further in the zk proof system because of the other magnitude of the overhead of the circuit process.

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