How is RingCt compared to zk stark?
Advantage, disadvantage, difference

Zkstark can support global anonymity sets and pretty fast verification. The underlying crypto is quantum resistant but need to examine the other components too. It's a lot more complex though but the main stickler is that proof sizes are like 50kB currently

RingCT has lower theoretical anonymity but good performance characteristics for a pretty well understood design. Needs to change in the long run though

I'm not sure if a full circuit has been designed for use in a tx privacy setting as a complete privacy protocol though but I may be wrong

I can't quite remember if proving times have been improved too

hello

i still did not get it, im here reading the design.md of randomx, and it is saying that while mining executes 8 chained programs, the verification takes only 1 program?

should verification not be exactly the same as proving?

<Reuben[m]> "Zkstark can support global..." <- Zkstark 50kB

What is size for ring ct?

Hope we can make transition easily when ringCt is insufficient

slave_blocker it doesn't say anything like this about verification

ok thanks

my mistake

another question :

The program executed by the VM has the form of a loop consisting of 256 random instructions.

?

if i look at :

i see 8 programs ...

or does every program have a loop (or more) inside it?

each of 8 programs has this loop

is the loop identical in each program? What is the max iteration count?

Do monero lab plan to use zk stark on monero?

zk starks are still computationally impractical

Then how do monero plan to be quantum resistant?

There's an open research task for that already

i heard that zcash had found a way, with halo arc to circumvent the "trusted setup"? Is this correct?

<moneromooo> "So close to nobody will buy..." <- Couldn't Russians use Tor to connect to onion nodes and process transactions while staying connected to the "larger" chain/network?