ZK: Originally it was just discovering that the sort of PCP theorem was in fact true, although not necessarily useful. But then I think the one that really got me excited initially was the cycles of elliptic curves. Recursion is one of the key components that makes scaling possible. So I started working on implementations of that. And yeah, I get a working recursion for a simpler system than the current proof system we have right now that was down to 15 seconds. That's super cool.
In this week’s episode, Anna and Guillermo chat with Brian Retford and Jeremy Bruestle from RISC Zero. They discuss their previous work in cloud infrastructure and how ZK offered unique solutions to long standing scaling problems. They cover topics like RISC-V, building VMs, and how RISC Zero aims to build a system which could support a decentralized public cloud.
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