Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Part 1 Premining 15
Markets, Institutions, and Currencies-A New Method of Social Incentivization 17
Ethereum: A Next-Generation Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Application Platform 25
Self-Enforcing Contracts and Factum Law 41
On Silos 51
Superrationality and DAOs 63
The Value of Blockchain Technology 75
Part 2 Proof of Work 93
Why Cryptoeconomics and X-Risk Researchers Should Listen to Each Other More 97
A Proof-of-Stake Design Philosophy 103
The Meaning of Decentralization 111
Notes on Blockchain Governance 123
On Collusion 143
On Free Speech 161
Control as Liability 171
Christmas Special 177
Part 3 Proof of Stake 187
Credible Neutrality as a Guiding Principle 189
Coordination, Good and Bad 201
Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election 213
The Most Important Scarce Resource Is Legitimacy 235
Against Overuse of the Gini Coefficient 253
Moving Beyond Coin-Voting Governance 265
Trust Models 289
Crypto Cities 295
Soulbound 313
Appendix 323
Ethereum Whitepaper: A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform 325
Glossary 379