Giuseppe Persiano
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Giuseppe Persiano
@giupers.bsky.social
Theoretical Computer Scientist and Cryptographer at U. Salerno, Italy. Juventino.
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It's an amazing contribution of theory for sure, but I'm jealous of the systems guys who invented "turn it off and turn it on again."
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Rollercoin.com has integrated Algorand into their game.

With over 5 million players and $10M in payouts, Rollercoin is an OG in the blockchain gaming space.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Algorand Foundation CEO @staci.algo.xyz attended the first federal reserve Innovative Payments Conference, joining Governor Christopher Waller and industry leaders who are shaping the future of payments.

As we move our HQ to the US, Algorand is proud to have a seat at the table.
October 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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The newest Ethereum roadmap looks to achieve instant finality on Ethereum’s L2 networks.

Instant finality is a game-changer, and this is a great move.

On Algorand, we’ve had instant finality at Layer-1 for 5+ years.
A simple L2 security and finalization roadmap
Special thanks to various EF, Optimism, Taiko, Flashbots, Surge and other researchers who helped form my thoughts on this. Today, the state of L2 security and L2 finality guarantees is improving: we ...
ethereum-magicians.org
April 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Algorand is bringing real-world assets on-chain.

✈️ Airline Tickets
💰 Currencies
📈 Stocks
⚽️ FIFA World Cup Tickets
🏡 Real Estate
☕ Coffee
🏦 Financial Assets
🏺 Historical Events
🖼️ Art
⚡ Solar Panels
🌊 Water Credits
🏅 Precious Metals
🎶 Music Royalties
🌍 Carbon Credits
🌾 Agriculture

...and more!
April 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Speaking of which, updated slides on "Hashing and Friends" now include this pointer to the Mitzenmacher–Vadhan paper, tpwards answering the daunting question:

'if these things ain't truly random, why does everything work so well?'
people.seas.harvard.edu/~salil/resea...
April 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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It’s almost the end of Governance Rewards on Algorand.

The era of Staking Rewards is upon us.

In the blog below, Adri explains what’s next 👇
Governance Rewards: It's a wrap! Reflecting, and what comes next.
Algorand's Governance Rewards program is ending, making way for Staking Rewards and a reimagined xGov program. Explore how these changes strengthen decentralization and evolve the Algorand ecosystem.
algorand.co
March 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Don’t forget to Stake on Algorand.

🟢 Secure the network
🟢 Make Algorand more decentralized
🟢 Earn rewards in the process
March 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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MIT released a new graduate-level course in statistics taught by Prof. Yufei Zhao. The course provides an introduction to probabilistic methods and their applications in combinatorics and theoretical computer science.

📽️ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#DataScience #stats #MachineLearning
MIT 18.226 Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics, Fall 2024 - YouTube
Instructor: Yufei ZhaoView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-226-probabilistic-methods-in-combinatorics-fall-2022/This course is a graduate...
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November 13, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Excited to co-organise another summer school on learning theory! This time in beautiful Odense, Denmark. Please share and apply here:
event.sdu.dk/algoml2025
PhD School on Intersections of Algorithms and Machine Learning Theory
event.sdu.dk
January 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM