Max Fan

Yeah. I was wondering how long it would take until a proof becomes irreversible. This would be great for making a nothing up my sleeve number. If you submit a...

Amazing! The Zcash community sounds amazing! Using opentimestamps proves that you picked a block height beforehand, preventing attackers from influencing the random numbers by cherry picking a suitable block.

Good point! I was thinking the order would be more like this: 1. Create code and find a suitable block height 2. Timestamp and sign it 3. Publish and distribute...

We should throw a `UserWarning` when this occurs, I think (should be easy to detect).

Both, I think.

Also, if you get the chance to add unit tests for this metric, that'd be good (but not necessary, I think). Feel free to merge once you see this.

@gabeschoenbach @phorva01 I just fixed the merge conflict. @pjrule @apizzimenti do you think your concerns have been addressed? What's the status on this PR?

The speedup should be > 16x now, for some computers at least.

Parallelization is totally possible (and one can see pretty big improvements via parallelization of ReCom). However, I don't think it's feasible (or easy) to do in Python without incurring a...

It turns out this is a more serious problem than it looks at first glance (in other words, I encountered a real-world use case where this matters). In particular, when...