awesome-cryptoeconomics

That's cryptoeconomics in a nutshell, mechanism design and decentralised governance. I curate a popular resource on this here: https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics

Mastering Bitcoin https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook An awesome curated list of Cryptoeconomic research and learning materials https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics A collection about awesome blockchains https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-blockchains Building Blockchain in Go https://jeiwan.net/posts/building-blockchain-in-go-part-1/

Yes, it's called game theory and Schelling point and I'm a big fan as you can see: https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics#game-th...

Have a look at this list, number 15 will surprise you :-) https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics#attacks There is nothing a blockchain can do to prevent a stray bullet from harming you or a wrench breaking your knees. What cryptocurrencies can do is create a layer of abstraction between account owners and accounts /wallets, so individuals have plausible deniability and the chance to make a run for it. It's slightly better than a pin or password protected card that you must carry with you.

Err.. Stablecoins are stable, hence the definition. https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics#stablec... That being said, there's a big difference between a pegged currency and an algorithmic stablecoin like the DAI or Bancor.

I saw a couple of comments today about the price of USDT so I think it's worth while explaining how it works just in case anyone is interested in knowing more. USDT is a pegged-currency. It's often described as a stablecoin but that's not correct because it doesn't have an inbuilt stabilisation mechanism unlike Maker's DAI for instance. The way it works is purely based on well known legal mechanisms that have no cryptoeconomic properties on its own. The issuer holds a USD balance at a bank, then commissions a receipt that proves their balance and issues an equal number of USDT. 1 USD = 1 USDT at issuance time and the trustworthiness of both the issuer, the auditor and banks involved. The token itself is used to facilitate trading and many investors 'park' their gains in USDT while waiting for the market to reach a certain point or just in

We might be arguing about the meaning of words here but the work in PoW is it's output and the hashimoto algorithm in PoW discards all computed hashes that fail to meet the difficulty requirement. I suppose you know how consensus algorithms work, but if you don't I'd suggest you start by reading this https://medium.com/@jpa_of_snc/consensus-casper-and-cryptoec.... If cryptoeconomics is interesting to you I can also recommend the best list of learning resources available, here: https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics The concept of a useful PoW algorithm has been debated a number of times and the consensus view is what I wrote earlier: If there are incentives to mining other than the block reward, the security assumption provided by hashrate majority is lost and blocks producers cannot be trusted. I'm a blockchain developer fo

You are not seeing the whole picture and don't understand the goal of the "coin" in a "blockchain". I would strongly urge you to do some research so that you can make up your mind from a place of knowledge instead. http://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics

Out of curiosity, have you had the opportunity to look into cryptoeconomics? https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics