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Mallesh Pai

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Forward Deployed Researcher and Recovering Economist @tempo.
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  • @malleshpai
    Mallesh Pai
    Tempo
    @malleshpai
    Aug 27
    Seeing the original meme
  • @malleshpai
    Mallesh Pai
    Tempo
    @malleshpai
    Aug 24
    This is is a very cool result imo: a simple miner strategy that is an equilibrium (no profitable individual deviation, unlike follow the longest chain and the deviations shown in the selfish mining lit)
    @ProfMMF
    Manuel Mueller-Frank
    @ProfMMF
    Aug 24
    New paper (with Minghao Pan and Omer Tamuz)馃毃 Bitcoin functions without a central intermediary, but the decentralized consensus among miners is vulnerable to profitable deviations. We show how Bitcoin鈥檚 intended decentralized consensus can be sustained in equilibrium, without
  • @malleshpai
    Mallesh Pai
    Tempo
    @malleshpai
    Aug 21
    Just chatting with a friend who's a professional crypto trader. Asked him how his week has been. His eyes light up and he's like "Really good. I'd kinda forgotten prices could do that" 馃ぃ
  • @malleshpai
    Mallesh Pai
    Tempo
    @malleshpai
    Aug 21
    I'm actually old enough that when I first saw a computer like this, I made the mistake of double-clicking a different app while this was playing. My friend (who's brand new computer it was) shouted at me, saying, "Dude, it can't really do two things at once."
    @AYTOarchive
    are you this old?
    @AYTOarchive
    Aug 20
  • @malleshpai
    Mallesh Pai
    Tempo
    @malleshpai
    Aug 21
    Be very wary of ideas like "all we need to make this work is to have a market that prices x. those market prices will be efficient and make it possible to do y". if the idea also has a plausible story about who will provide liquidity/ pay for price discovery in those markets,