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Pankaj Gupta
@pankaj
Advisor @Coinbase. Recently VP Eng, Consumer Products, Coinbase. Ex-Google, Twitter. Co-founded 3 startups. Optimistic about AI, Crypto, Privacy, India.
May 2, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
STOP. THE. IPL. NOW

It’s not just inappropriate and insensitive but downright shameful, appalling and tone-deaf to continue the glitzy IPL.

No we don’t need thrillers in Delhi. We need more oxygen, hospitals, beds and medicines. Urgently.

#StopIPL Just across the road from where this grotesque spectacle happens daily is a hospital.

Cricketers & the administration - do you have a shred of decency?

People are dying daily in the thousands. Everyone knows someone in their 1st or 2nd degree that has died recently.
May 2, 2021 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Re the @MightyApp streaming browser approach being touted as the future of computing, I will stick my neck out against some of the most respected names openly backing this and calling it the future of tech.

This is a dangerous technical approach.
🧵 Network/edge computers have been a tempting and promising technology for 25 years, but are flawed IMHO for *wide use* for deep, fundamental reasons:
Apr 19, 2021 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
“Networkless Mobile Payments With Minimal Changes in Trusted Execution Environments” just got published tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/4…

So I am excited to finally talk about this foundational work that I & a small team have been doing in Google Pay along with our Android Security team. All digital payments today are built on the fundamental assumption of Internet connectivity. Basically, every payment transaction needs to ring up one or more remote servers every time.
Feb 22, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
With due respect to expert bankers, economists and finance folks alike, a technologist’s case for CBDC (aka a digital dollar/euro/rupee) is much plainer than what you are all overcomplicating it to be.

CBDC is just an electronic form of paper cash - exactly like email was... ...at some point made possible by tech as an electronic form of post / snail mail.

How much more evidence do we need from this Internet world that we live in, that an electronic form of something which is in paper today brings unimaginable advantages...