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Vitalik Buterin discusses Credible Neutrality in the context of Incentivised Mechanisms of guiding human behavior.
"... there is a very important principle that is at play, and one that is likely to become key to the discourse of how to build efficient, pro-freedom, fair and inclusive institutions that influence and govern different spheres of our lives. And that principle is this: when building mechanisms that ...Read More
Been working on this weird thing MetaGame.
"A Massive Online Coordination Game"
Think social media meets freelancing meet role playing games... ...Read More
Great read about "What the Decentralized Web Can Learn from Wikipedia".
In fact a lot of the mechanism design for Relevant was inspired by Wikipedia! ...Read More
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Varios funcionarios del gobierno de EE. UU. En altos cargos, incluido el Presidente, afirmaron recientemente que la criptomoneda no es una buena forma de pagar los bienes y servicios. Si bien algunos analistas dicen que esto detuvo una carrera alcista en 2019, ¿es cierto que estas palabras realmente tienen un ...Read More
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"Three priorities were set for completion by the November deadline. The city’s blockchain points system will be introduced and residents of Seoul will receive S-coins for the use of public services. They will be able to redeem those points for rewards. Services that generate the coins include paying taxes and ...Read More
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“Nobody actually cares if tether is backed or not,” says Konstantin Plavnik, chief operating officer of Moscow-based crypto derivatives exchange Xena. Confidence in Tether’s solvency relies on long-time habit and convenience: this market needs tether, so tether is trusted.
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"One way to think about various kinds of crypto projects is through the lens of contract theory. An axiom of this area of legal scholarship states: “all but the simplest contracts are incomplete”. That is, contractual arrangements cannot anticipate every possible outcome or set of actions, given complex and dynamic ...Read More
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Came across a REALLY cool project in Sardinia this weekend called Sardex.
"Sardex is a regional business-to-business (B2B) "commercial credit circuit," or "credit club" - a members-only network that allows local Sardinian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to do business by extending each other euro-denominated credit rather than paying in cash." ...Read More
"The current state of affairs concerning Bitcoin and the end user assurances/usability. The article examines assurance the network provides at each stage from acquisition to divestment."
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SEC came down hard on Kik. This is the first SEC come-down I've seen in a while. Do we think we'll see more in the space? How will it impact the ecosystem?
Full briefing here: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-87.pdf ...Read More
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A virtual car got sold for a little over 100k $ in ETH in some new blockhain racing game. The entire game is property of Fia F1 world championship. What's happening?
I love seeing governance ideas like this and think they would be a great idea to make elected groups stick to their manifestos.
"SmartPromises is a public accountability platform that allows a nation to incentivize its political parties to make S.M.A.R.T. promises, i.e. "Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely". ...Read More
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Everyone talks about how we don't want what happened to the Internet to happen to the blockchain ecosystem. This article outlines the whole roadmap from the decentralized cyberpunk Internet we know and love to the centralized internet that sucks all our data without our consent.
What I wonder though is how do we preemptively keep this from happening in the blockchain space? What are our predictions on who will "attempt" to become the "Googles" and the "Facebooks" of our decentralized world? ...Read More
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Also - here was their awesome product demo from this years NYC Blockchain Week. Instant browser-based wallet, no ETH or GAS required + no fees, and instant transactions.... for alcohol. V cool.
https://medium.com/depfi/drinks-paid-in-dai-what-happens-when-the-bar-only-accepts-crypto-766802622576 ...Read More