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[FFG Econ] Remove 'Pools' Section #31

Closed jonchoi closed 4 years ago

jonchoi commented 7 years ago

Summary

The section on Pools--while informative--seems out of scope at the current state. It does not have any economic analyses but rather enumerates the types of pools that may exist. While each of the other sections have parallel structure that is cogent (as described in the abstract), the section on pools leaves the reader wondering what the economic takeaway might be.

Acknowledging the overhead (without sharding) and the existence of pools is helpful, but think that this should be left out as future work. Analyzing pools, oligopolistic competition can be separate (or alternatively can more substantially affect sections 2-3.