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* https://watershed.co.uk/studio/news/2021/12/03/case-against-crypto
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* [The European Money and Finance Forum - The encrypted threat: Bitcoin’s social cost and regulatory responses](https://web.archive.org/web/20220107084533/https://www.suerf.org/docx/f_88b3febc5798a734026c82c1012408f5_38771_suerf.pdf) - Jan 2022. A comprehensive study by SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum that details the net negative effects of bitcoin to society.
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* [The Third Web](https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/) - 2021-12-17 - long critical essay including detailed history by [Tante](https://twitter.com/tante)
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* [Tante's Web3/NFT FAQ](https://tante.cc/2022/02/09/tantes-blockchain-web3-faq/)
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* https://rufuspollock.com/2016/07/02/reflections-on-the-blockchain/ - 2016-07-02 - by Rufus Pollock (mainly a critique of early DAOs and techno-solutionism)
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* [Web3 takes trust, too](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-10/web3-takes-trust-too) - 2022-01-10 by Matt Levine on Bloomberg.com
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* [Revolution Now! With Peter Joseph | Bitcoin and Financialization](https://youtu.be/bsghxd1cdeA) - May 21, 2021
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The purpose of retail banking services is to provide stable, reliable and safe means for citizens to transact with money that is safely custodied by a trusted third party with the guarantees of regulation by the government that the party will hold their accounts on their behalf. This includes practices like customer service, deposit insurance, fraud detection, transaction reversal and issuing of payment cards.
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[Crypto exchanges](../concepts/crypto-exchange.md) cannot function as banks because the do not custody customer deposits and have no deposit insurance. This pushes unnecessary counterparty risk down to consumers and in the event of fraud, insolvency or market shocks customers may be left with no access to their "deposits". This is an unnecessary risk that is strictly worse than traditional banking products.
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[Crypto exchanges](../concepts/crypto-exchange.md) cannot function as banks because the do not custody customer deposits and have no deposit insurance. This pushes unnecessary counterparty risk down to consumers and in the event of fraud, insolvency or market shocks customers may be left with no access to their "deposits". This is an unnecessary risk that is strictly worse than traditional banking products and is a form of [predatory inclusion](../concepts/predatory-inclusion.md) with parallels to predatory lending done during the subprime mortgage crisis.
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# Crypto assets are a bubble
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Crypto assets have the characterstic price behaviour that resembles many other [bubbles](../concepts/bubble.md) and [market manias](../concepts/madness-crowds.md) throughout history. Bitcoin has been characterised as a [speculative](../concepts/speculation.md) bubble by eight winners of the Nobel Prize in economics.
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* Paul Krugman
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* Robert J. Shiller
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* Joseph Stiglitz
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* Richard Thaler
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* James Heckman
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* Thomas Sargent
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* Angus Deaton
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* Oliver Hart
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And by central bank officials:
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* Alan Greenspan
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* Agustín Carstens
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* Vítor Constâncio
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* Nout Wellink
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* Mark Carney
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And several notable investors have also described it as a bubble:
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* Warren Buffet
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* George Soros
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# Crypto assets are legal
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# Legality of crypto assets
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Crypto assets are unlicensed [security](../concepts/security.md) contracts for unregulated [speculative](../concepts/speculation.md) investments. The legality of this depends on jurisdiction.
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Since crypto assets are [investments](../concepts/security.md) the purpose of buying a crypto asset is to buy it at a lower price and sell it at a higher price to generate a return denominated in a [real currency](../concepts/currency.md). However as an investment crypto assets have no [income-cashflows](../concepts/income-cashflows.md) therefore the only money that exists to pay out investors is money that is brought in by later investors. This makes the entire scheme a [zero sum game](../concepts/zero-sum-game.md). All money won by [speculation](../concepts/speculation.md) is ultimately money that is equally lost by another participant.
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This is comparable to the analogy of a game of poker and other [gambling](../concepts/gambling.md) games The only money that can be won in a poker game "pot" provided by the players of the card game. The act of playing poker does not generate any money, it simply redistributes to participants according to a game of chance. If the "house" or casino takes a percentage of the pot on every round of the game played then the size of the pot must decrease over time. This turns the zero-sum game into a negative-sum game which admits a negative [expected return](../concepts/expected-return.md).
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This is comparable to the analogy of a game of poker and other [gambling](../concepts/gambling.md) games The only money that can be won in a poker game "pot" provided by the players of the card game. The act of playing poker does not generate any money, it simply redistributes to participants according to a game of chance. If the "house" or casino takes a percentage of the pot on every round of the game played then the size of the pot must decrease over time. This turns the zero-sum game into a negative-sum game which admits a negative [expected return](../concepts/expected-return.md). See also the [greater fool theory](../concepts/greater-fool-theory.md).
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Investing in crypto assets is statistically guaranteed to lose money for almost all market participants because as investments they have no [income-cashflows](../concepts/income-cashflows.md). This differs drastically from [productive-asset](../concepts/productive-asset.md) such as [stocks](../concepts/stock.md) and [bonds](../concepts/bond.md).
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Investing in crypto assets is statistically guaranteed to lose money for almost all market participants because as investments they have no [income-cashflows](../concepts/income-cashflows.md). This differs drastically from [productive assets](../concepts/productive-asset.md) such as [stocks](../concepts/stock.md) ,[bonds](../concepts/bond.md) and [real-estate](../concepts/real-estate.md).
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See [assets](../concepts/assets.md) comparison chart for comparison of crypto assets to productive asset.
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See [assets](../concepts/assets.md) comparison chart for comparison of crypto assets to conventional investments.
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# Crypto has a weird subculture
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Crypto currency is an example of a self-organizing [high control group](../concepts/high-control-group.md) whose existence organically creates a market mania, [bubble](../concepts/bubble.md) and [narrative economics](../concepts/narrative-economics.md) that entices the public to invest in the asset class or join the group and its subculture.
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Crypto subculture is an example of a self-organizing [high control group](../concepts/high-control-group.md) whose existence organically creates a market mania, [bubble](../concepts/bubble.md) and [narrative economics](../concepts/narrative-economics.md) that entices the public to invest in the asset class or join the group and its subculture.
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Since the asset class is [non-productive](../concepts/productive-asset.md) and [negative-sum](negative-sum.md) the crypto scheme depends largely on narratives of "money for nothing" and "easy wealth" that clash with traditional readings of [economics](../concepts/ideologies/keynsian-economics.md). These schemes may depend on [technosolutionism](../concepts/ideologies/technosolutionism.md) or [libertarianism](../concepts/ideologies/libertarianism.md) to justify bringing more [greater fools](../concepts/greater-fool-theory.md) into the scheme.
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Since the asset class is [non-productive](../concepts/productive-asset.md) and [negative-sum](negative-sum.md) the crypto scheme entirely depends on attracting new investor inflows based on narratives of "money for nothing" and "easy wealth" that clash with traditional readings of [economics](../concepts/ideologies/keynsian-economics.md). These schemes may also depend on [technosolutionism](../concepts/ideologies/technosolutionism.md) or [libertarianism](../concepts/ideologies/libertarianism.md) to justify bringing more [greater fools](../concepts/greater-fool-theory.md) into the scheme.
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Crypto culture depends heavily on a distortion of language to signify belonging to an ingroup and leans heavily on [thought terminating cliches](../concepts/thought-terminating-cliches.md) to quell dissent or rational discourse.
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# Is web3 a well-defined term?
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Web3 has been [criticised](https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html) as being an intentionally ambiguous buzzword with no precise meaning.
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Web3 has been accused of becoming an intellectual nexus for many internet "thought leaders" to pontificate about grand visions of technical and financial reconfiguration largely detached from any concrete plans or implementations of these ideas. This may give rise to [bubble](bubble.md) detached from any progress on building real companies or technologies.
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Web3 has also been described as a means of doing [regulatory arbitrage](regulatory-arbitrage.md) on [securites](security.md) offerings to enrich venture capital firms.
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## References
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* [https://web3isgoinggreat.com](https://web3isgoinggreat.com)
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# What type of assets are crypto token?
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Crypto assets are [securities](../concepts/security.md) contracts.
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Crypto assets are [securities](../concepts/security.md) contracts for [speculative](../concepts/speculation.md) investments.
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See the [assets](../concepts/assets.md) comparison chart for an overview of how crypto asset compare to traditional investments and currencies.
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From https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-uniswap-and-how-does-it-work
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> Automated market makers are [smart contracts](https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-are-smart-contracts) that hold liquidity reserves (or liquidity pools) that traders can trade against. These reserves are funded by liquidity providers. Anyone can be a liquidity provider who deposits an equivalent value of two tokens in the pool. In return, traders pay a fee to the pool that is then distributed to liquidity providers according to their share of the pool. Let’s dive into how this works in more detail.
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> Automated market makers are [smart-contracts](smart-contracts.md) that hold [liquidity](liquidity.md) reserves (or liquidity pools) that traders can trade against. These reserves are funded by liquidity providers. Anyone can be a liquidity provider who deposits an equivalent value of two tokens in the pool. In return, traders pay a fee to the pool that is then distributed to liquidity providers according to their share of the pool. Let’s dive into how this works in more detail.
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Uniswap is iterating to favor "professional players":
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# Art
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Art is an asset class which encompass a broad category of human activities that are done with "artistic intent". This is a philosophically ambiguous category but generally corresponds to activities which are stimulating because of their aesthetic, intellectual or emotional qualities.
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Art is an asset class which encompass a broad category of human activities and artefacts that are done with "artistic intent". This is a philosophically ambiguous category but generally corresponds to activities which are stimulating because of their aesthetic, intellectual or emotional qualities.
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Art is a [non-productive asset](productive-asset.md).
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# Artificial Scarcity
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The abstract notion of creating an asset which has no physicality or underlying and whose demand curve is not generated by [use-value](use-value.md) or [income-cashflows](income-cashflows.md).
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The abstract notion of creating an asset whose supply is artificially determined and set by the issuer instead of by its physicality or underlying whose demand curve would be generated by a [use value](use-value.md) or [income cashflows](income-cashflows.md).
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Products like [crypto asset](cryptoasset.md), [NFTs](nft.md) and sometimes [art](art.md) are artificially scarce.
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Products like [crypto asset](cryptoasset.md) and [nft](nft.md) are artificially scarce.
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There is an infinite number of non-physical artificially scare assets that can be created, thus leading to a paradox where unless demand is also infinite their [market value](market-value.md) should trend towards zero.
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| Currency | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌
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| Stock | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️
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| Bond | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌
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| Art | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️
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| Gold | ❌ | ✔ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌
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| Commodity | ❌ | * | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌
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| Real Estate| ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️
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| Bitcoin | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️
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| Commodity | ❌ | * | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌
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| NFT | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️
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# Bandwagon Bias
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# Bank
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A bank is a financial institution which is chartered and regulated to hold customer [deposit](deposit.md).
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# Bearer Instrument
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# Bitcoin
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Bitcoin is the first [crypto asset](cryptoasset.md) investment. Used as a vehicle for [speculation](speculation.md) and [gambling](gambling.md).
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Bitcoin has a [narrative economics](../claims/narrative-economics.md) based on [libertarianism](ideologies/libertarianism.md), [regulatory arbitrage](regulatory-arbitrage.md) and aspirations of [private money](private-money.md).
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An economic cartel use a non-public agreement to restrict the supply or fix the price of an asset. A cartel is a formal type of [market-manipulation](market-manipulation.md). Cartels are considered to be against the public interest because of the potential [asymmetric-information](asymmetric-information.md) to reduce trust in [markets](market.md).
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A [memecoin](memecoin.md) [cryptoasset](cryptoasset.md) based on a joke about the Shibu variety of dogs.
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A [[memecoin]] [cryptoasset](cryptoasset.md) based on a joke about the Shibu variety of dogs.
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Dogecoin is an example of a crypto asset with no political imaginaries, no [currency](currency.md) narrative, no pretense of [use-value](use-value.md), no [fundamental-value](fundamental-value.md), and no narrative economics whatsoever. it is a pure manifestation of the [greater-fool-theory](greater-fool-theory.md) with an investment thesis rooted purely in financial nihilism.
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Dogecoin has a [narrative-economics](../claims/narrative-economics.md) based on [financial-nihilism](ideologies/financial-nihilism.md)
|
||||
|
||||
Dogecoin shares a payout structure similar to a [ponzi-scheme](ponzi-scheme.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Dogecoin is based on an environmentally destructive [consensus algorithm](consensus-algorithm.md) known as Proof of Work [mining](mining.md).
|
||||
Dogecoin is based on the [consensus algorithm](consensus-algorithm.md) known as Proof of Work [mining](mining.md).
|
||||
|
|
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|
|||
# US Dollar
|
||||
The US dollar is the currency of the United States and acts as a [reserve currency](reserve-currency.md) for international commerce.
|
||||
|
||||
## Properties
|
||||
The dollar is a [currency](currency.md).
|
||||
|
||||
The dollar is not a [speculative](speculation.md) investment.
|
||||
|
||||
The dollar is [inflationary](inflationary.md).
|
||||
|
||||
The paper form of the dollar is a [bearer instrument](bearer-instrument.md).
|
||||
|
||||
The dollar has no [fundamental value](fundamental-value.md).
|
||||
|
||||
The dollar has no [use value](use-value.md).
|
||||
|
||||
The dollar has no [income-cashflows](income-cashflows.md).
|
||||
|
||||
The dollar has a [present-value](present-value.md) of zero.
|
||||
|
||||
The dollar has a [terminal-value](terminal-value.md) of zero.
|
||||
|
||||
The dollar is a [non-productive](productive-asset.md) investment.
|
||||
|
||||
The dollar is not a [security](security.md).
|
||||
|
||||
The dollar is issued by a [central banks](central-banks.md).
|
||||
|
|
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|
|||
# Endowment Effect
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Ethereum
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum is a [cryptoasset](cryptoasset.md) that extends the [bitcoin](bitcoin.md) model to allow the execution of [smart contracts](smart-contracts.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Properties
|
||||
|
|
@ -10,9 +9,11 @@ Ethereum is a [speculative](speculation.md) investment.
|
|||
|
||||
Ethereum is [deflationary](deflationary.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum is a [bearer instrument](bearer-instrument.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum has no [fundamental value](fundamental-value.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum has no [use-value](use-value.md).
|
||||
Ethereum has no [use value](use-value.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum has no [income-cashflows](income-cashflows.md).
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -20,22 +21,14 @@ Ethereum has a [present-value](present-value.md) of zero.
|
|||
|
||||
Ethereum has a [terminal-value](terminal-value.md) of zero.
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum is a [greater-fool-theory](greater-fool-theory.md) asset.
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum is a form of [gambling](gambling.md).
|
||||
Ethereum is a [greater-fool theory](greater-fool-theory.md) asset.
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum is a [non-productive](productive-asset.md) investment.
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum has a negative [expected-return](expected-return.md).
|
||||
Ethereum has a negative [expected return](expected-return.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum is a [security](security.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum is a [bubble](bubble.md).
|
||||
Ethereum has a [narrative economics](../claims/narrative-economics.md) based on [technosolutionism](ideologies/technosolutionism.md), [libertarianism](ideologies/libertarianism.md), [regulatory-arbitrage](regulatory-arbitrage.md) and aspirations of [private-money](private-money.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum investing is a [negative-sum game](zero-sum-game.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum has a [narrative economics](../claims/narrative-economics.md) based on [technosolutionism](ideologies/technosolutionism.md), [libertarianism](ideologies/libertarianism.md), [regulatory-arbitrage](regulatory-arbitrage.md) and aspirations of [private-money](private money.md) .
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum shares a payout structure similar to a [Ponzi scheme](ponzi-scheme.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Ethereum is based on an environmentally destructive [consensus algorithm](consensus-algorithm.md) known as Proof of Work [mining](mining.md).
|
||||
Ethereum is based on the [consensus algorithm](consensus-algorithm.md) known as Proof of Work [mining](mining.md).
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
# Fictitious commodities
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
|
|||
# Free Rider Problem
|
||||
The use of [public-goods](public-goods-problem.md) by parties who do not contribute to their creation or upkeep.
|
||||
The use of [public goods](public-goods-problem.md) by parties who do not contribute to their creation or upkeep.
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
|
|||
# Gold
|
||||
Gold is a precious metal sometimes used as investment and historically as coinage for [currency](currency.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Properties
|
||||
Gold is a [speculative](speculation.md) investment.
|
||||
|
||||
Gold has no [fundamental value](fundamental-value.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Gold has [use value](use-value.md) in jewellery and electronics.
|
||||
|
||||
Gold has no [income-cashflows](income-cashflows.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Gold is a [non-productive](productive-asset.md) investment.
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
|
|||
# Howey Test
|
||||
|
||||
A legal test which defines whether an investment contract is designed as a [security](security.md) under United States law.
|
||||
|
||||
1. Investment of money
|
||||
2. In a common enterprise
|
||||
3. With the expectation of profit
|
||||
4. To be derived from the efforts of others
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Austrian Economics
|
||||
|
||||
A heterodox school of economics that attempts to reason about human behaviour from first principles and deductive reasoning instead of quantitative analysis. Popular in the early 20th century but largely rejected by the modern academy.
|
||||
|
||||
This school of thought has seen a resurgence in relation to [crypto assets](../cryptoasset.md).
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
# Cryptoanarchism
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Financial Nihilism
|
||||
A philosophy on investing and markets in which [value](../value.md) does not exist or is inherently unknowable. The claims of this ideology are inherently contradictory but is stems from an underlying belief that [market](../market.md) have no purpose and cannot or does not exist to do [price formation](../price-formation.md) on [assets](../assets.md) because [capitalism](capitalism.md) does not work.
|
||||
A philosophy on investing and markets in which [value](../value.md) does not exist or is inherently unknowable. The claims of this ideology stems from an underlying belief that [markets](../market.md) have no purpose and cannot or does not exist to do [price formation](../price-formation.md) on [assets](../assets.md) because of a belief that[capitalism](capitalism.md) does not work.
|
||||
|
||||
This is a belief system held by many who participate in [meme-stock](../meme-stock.md) and [memecoin](memecoin) projects such as [dogecoin](../dogecoin.md).
|
||||
This is a belief system held by some who participate in [meme stock](../meme-stock.md) and [meme coin](../memecoin.md) projects.
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
# Inevitablism
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
|
|||
## Keynsian Economics
|
||||
# Keynsian Economics
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Market Fundamentalism
|
||||
The belief that [market](../market.md) are inevitable and desirable feature of [capitalism](capitalism.md) and that efficient and transparent [market making](../market-maker.md) enables capital formation and general public prosperity.
|
||||
|
||||
Often coincides with the belief that [market-manipulation](../market-manipulation.md), [asymmetric-information](../asymmetric-information.md), and [cartels](../cartel.md) in markets is undesirable because these phenomenon destroy trust in markets and inhibit [price-formation](../price-formation.md).
|
||||
Often coincides with the belief that [market manipulation](../market-manipulation.md), [asymmetric information](../asymmetric-information.md), and [cartels](../cartel.md) in markets is undesirable because these phenomenon destroy trust in markets and inhibit [price formation](../price-formation.md).
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Technocollectivism
|
||||
A loose set of political or organisational ideologies that [blockchain](../blockchain.md), [crypto assets](../cryptoasset.md) and [DAOs](../dao.md) can be used to enable new forms of organisations in which capital formation can occur outside of existing power structures.
|
||||
A loose set of political or organisational ideologies that [blockchain](../blockchain.md), [crypto assets](../cryptoasset.md) and [DAOs](../dao.md) can be used to enable new forms of organisations in which capital formation can occur outside of existing power structures. These include a variety of experiments in social choice theory, futarchy and digital cooperatives.
|
||||
|
||||
See also [technosolutionism](technosolutionism.md).
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
# Immutability
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
# Liquidity Pool
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Liquidity
|
||||
|
||||
Liquidity is as the state of [assets](assets.md) being liquid, or the ability to easily turn the assets or investments into [currency](currency.md) by finding a buyer for the asset on a [[market.]]
|
||||
Liquidity is the state of [assets](assets.md) being liquid, or the ability to easily turn the assets or investments into [currency](currency.md) by finding a buyer for the asset on a [[market.]]
|
||||
|
||||
The inability to find a buyer for an asset makes the asset illiquid.
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
# Madness of Crowds
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
# Market Mania
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Memecoin
|
||||
A meme coin is a [cryptoasset](cryptoasset.md) which has no pretense of [fundamental value](fundamental-value.md) or [utility](use-value.md) but instead is a [greater fool](greater-fool-theory.md) investment based trend-following of an image or symbol in popular culture.
|
||||
|
||||
See [dogecoin](dogecoin.md).
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
|
|||
# Money
|
||||
Money is any item or verifiable record that is accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts and payment of national obligations, such as taxes, in a particular jurisdiction. Issued by a [central-banks](central-banks.md).
|
||||
Money is any item or verifiable record that is accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts and payment of national obligations, such as taxes, in a particular jurisdiction. Money is issued by a [central banks](central-banks.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Properties
|
||||
The United States dollar is an example of money.
|
||||
|
||||
* Unit of Account
|
||||
* Medium of Exchange
|
||||
* Store of Value
|
||||
Money is a social technology whose efficacy is based on both its universal acceptance in an economic region and the money's coherence to three properties:
|
||||
|
||||
* **Medium of Exchange** -
|
||||
* **Unit of Account** -
|
||||
* **Store of Value** -
|
||||
|
||||
## Qualities
|
||||
|
||||
The qualifies of a currency representing money are defined by coherent to three properties:
|
||||
|
||||
* Durability
|
||||
* Portability
|
||||
* Divisibility
|
||||
* Uniformity
|
||||
* Limited supply
|
||||
* Acceptability
|
||||
* Acceptability
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
|
|||
# Narrative Economics
|
||||
Ethereum has a [narrative economics](../claims/narrative-economics.md) based on [technosolutionism](ideologies/technosolutionism.md), [libertarianism](ideologies/libertarianism.md), [regulatory arbitrage](regulatory-arbitrage.md) and aspirations of [private money](private-money.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Bitcoin has a [narrative economics](../claims/narrative-economics.md) based on [libertarianism](ideologies/libertarianism.md), [regulatory arbitrage](regulatory-arbitrage.md) and aspirations of [private money](private-money.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Dogecoin is an example of a crypto asset with no political imaginaries, no [currency](currency.md) narrative, no pretense of [use value](use-value.md), no [fundamental value](fundamental-value.md), and no narrative economics whatsoever. it is a pure manifestation of the [greater fool theory](greater-fool-theory.md) with an investment thesis rooted purely in [financial nihilism](ideologies/financial-nihilism.md).
|
||||
|
|
@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ NFTs have been critizied as having a payout structure similar to a [pyramid sche
|
|||
## Duplication
|
||||
#todo
|
||||
|
||||
## Plagiarism
|
||||
#todo
|
||||
|
||||
## Multiple-chains
|
||||
#todo
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -25,7 +28,11 @@ See: https://thenftbay.org/
|
|||
#todo
|
||||
|
||||
## Tinkerbell Effect
|
||||
#todo
|
||||
|
||||
## References
|
||||
|
||||
* [Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g)
|
||||
* [@bodo_rise_2022]
|
||||
* [@diehl_tinkerbell_2021]
|
||||
* [@olson_line_2022]
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Non-economic
|
||||
The property of a process having no economic importance or implication, a closed loop in which there are in inflows or outflows of good or services.
|
||||
|
||||
See [ficticious commodity](ficticious-commodity.md) and [artificial scarcity](artificial-scarcity.md).
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Paper Wealth
|
||||
Paper wealth is [value](value.md) that is stored on behalf of a customer or counterparty which has not been converted into [currency](currency.md) yet. It's denominated value has yet to be realized and is subject to [counterparty risk](counterparty-risk.md), [platform risk](platform-risk.md) and [price risk](price-risk.md)
|
||||
|
||||
[Crypto assets](cryptoasset.md) held in [crypto exchanges](crypto-exchange.md) are an example of paper wealth.
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
|
|||
# Predatory Inclusion
|
||||
Predatory inclusion refers to a process whereby members of a marginalized group are provided with access to a good, service, or opportunity from which they have historically been excluded but under suboptimal or risky conditions that jeopardize the benefits of access.
|
||||
|
|
@ -1 +1,2 @@
|
|||
# Private Key
|
||||
# Private Key
|
||||
A cryptographic key, essentially a large number, that within a given cryptosystem gives whoever posses it access the ability to generate a public key and address which is associated with a numerical quantity on a [blockchain](blockchain.md) known as a [wallet](wallet.md) and which imparts the capacity to transact in [cryptoasset](cryptoasset.md) associated with the public key's address.
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
# Pseudonymous
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Pump and Dump Scheme
|
||||
|
||||
A type of market manipulation based on [asymmetric-information](asymmetric-information.md) in which buying of an asset is coordinated by a set of insiders to temporarily artificially inflate the price and bring in more buyers which are used as exit liquidity for the insiders to "dump" their positions.
|
||||
|
||||
Pump and dump schemes are illegal in most regulated markets such as public stock markets, but are rampant in crypto markets.
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1 +1,8 @@
|
|||
# Reserve Currency
|
||||
A reserve currency is a [currency](currency.md) that is held in by [central-banks](central-banks.md) as part of their foreign exchange reserves. The reserve currency is used for international transaction between nation states.
|
||||
|
||||
## Historical World Reserve Currencies
|
||||
1. Spanish Silver Dollar
|
||||
2. Dutch Guilder
|
||||
3. British Pound
|
||||
4. United States Dollar
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
# Sanctions Enforcement
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
|
|||
# Securites
|
||||
A legal framework in which counterparties to a country are given time-varying rights to [income-cashflows](income-cashflows.md) according to a contractual agreement.
|
||||
A legal framework in which counterparties to a country are given time-varying rights to [income-cashflows](income-cashflows.md) according to a contractual agreement. The legal test for a product being a security is in-part defined by the [Howey Test](howey-test.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Examples
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
|
|||
# Shadow Bank
|
||||
|
||||
A shadow banking system refers to a network of unregulated financial intermediaries that facilitate the creation of credit across the global financial system outside of the normal banking system.
|
||||
A shadow banking system refers to a network of unregulated financial intermediaries that facilitate the creation of credit across the global financial system outside of the normal [banking](bank.md) system.
|
||||
|
||||
See also [regulatory-arbitrage](regulatory-arbitrage.md).
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Stock
|
||||
|
||||
A type of [security](security.md) which grants buyers access to [income-cashflows](income-cashflows.md) in a common economic enterprise.
|
||||
|
||||
Stocks are valued by the [market](market.md) as a combination of three factors which inform price formation:
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
|
|||
# Systemic Risk
|
||||
|
||||
Systemic risk is the possibility that an event in a single asset or company could trigger severe instability or collapse an entire industry or economy.
|
||||
|
||||
Assets considered to be a systemic risk are called "too big to fail".
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
|
|||
# Thought Terminating Cliche
|
||||
|
||||
A acronym or saying that is used within a [high-control-group](high-control-group.md) to quell dissent or discourage rational inquiry.
|
||||
A acronym or saying that is used within a [high control group](high-control-group.md) to quell dissent or discourage rational inquiry.
|
||||
|
||||
## Examples
|
||||
|
||||
Within the crypto ideology there are several thought-terminating cliches.
|
||||
Within the crypto [subculture](../claims/weird-culture.md) there are several thought-terminating cliches.
|
||||
|
||||
* "have fun staying poor" / "hfsp"
|
||||
* "If you don't believe it or don't get it, I don't have the time to try to convince you"
|
||||
* "we're all going to make" / "wagmi"
|
||||
* "have fun staying poor" / "hfsp"
|
||||
* "hold on for dear life" / "hodl"
|
||||
* "the dollar is a ponzi scheme" / everything is a ponzi"
|
||||
* "now do the dollar"
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
# Tinkerbell Effect
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
|||
# Value
|
||||
|
||||
Value is a subjective concept which refers to the process by which humans measure the worth of physical goods, services or ideas in terms of a fitness function which assigns subjective or objective reality to this measure.
|
||||
Value is a subjective concept which refers to the process by which humans measure the worth of physical goods, services or ideas in terms of a fitness function which assigns subjective or objective measure to the referent.
|
||||
|
||||
There are many different types of value definitions.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
|
|||
# Crypto Wallet
|
||||
An unhosted wallet is a crypto wallet not stored on a [crypto exchange](crypto-exchange.md) or with a custodial service and whose private key is individually managed by the user.
|
||||
An unhosted wallet is a crypto wallet not stored on a [crypto exchange](crypto-exchange.md) or with a custodial service and whose [private key](private-key.md) is individually managed by the user.
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,2 @@
|
|||
# Web3
|
||||
An umbrella marketing term for a variety of endeavours to integrate [crypto assets](cryptoasset.md), [NFTs](nft.md), [DAOs](dao.md), [DeFi](defi.md) and [smart contracts](smart-contracts.md) into existing web infrastructure.
|
||||
|
||||
Web3 has become an intellectual nexus for many internet "thought leaders" to pontificate about grand visions of technical and financial reconfiguration largely detached from any concrete plans or implementations of these ideas. This may give rise to [bubble](bubble.md) detached from any progress on building real companies or technologies.
|
||||
|
||||
Web3 has been [criticised](https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html) as being an intentionally ambiguous buzzword with no precise meaning.
|
||||
|
||||
Web3 has also been described as a means of doing [regulatory arbitrage](regulatory-arbitrage.md) on [securites](security.md) offerings to enrich venture capital firms.
|
||||
|
||||
## References
|
||||
* [https://web3isgoinggreat.com](https://web3isgoinggreat.com)
|
||||
An umbrella marketing term for a variety of endeavours to integrate [crypto assets](cryptoasset.md), [NFTs](nft.md), [DAOs](dao.md), [DeFi](defi.md) and [smart contracts](smart-contracts.md) into existing web infrastructure.
|
||||
147
guide/index.md
147
guide/index.md
|
|
@ -15,45 +15,70 @@ Understand the terminology used to describe crypto and web3.
|
|||
* [Bitcoin](/concepts/bitcoin.md)
|
||||
* [Ethereum](/concepts/ethereum.md)
|
||||
* [Blockchain](/concepts/blockchain.md)
|
||||
* [Bubble](/concepts/bubble.md)
|
||||
* [Money](/concepts/money.md)
|
||||
* [NFT](../concepts/nft.md)
|
||||
* [Sound money](../concepts/sound-money.md)
|
||||
* [Deflationary](../concepts/deflationary.md)
|
||||
* [Assets](/concepts/assets.md)
|
||||
* [Apeculative asset](/concepts/speculation.md)
|
||||
* [Crypto-exchange](/concepts/crypto-exchange.md)
|
||||
* [Bubble](/concepts/bubble.md)
|
||||
* [DAO](/concepts/dao.md)
|
||||
* [Private money](../concepts/private-money.md)
|
||||
* [Sound money](../concepts/sound-money.md)
|
||||
* [Ponzi scheme](../concepts/ponzi-scheme.md)
|
||||
* [Deflationary asset](../concepts/deflationary.md)
|
||||
* [Crypto exchanges](/concepts/crypto-exchange.md)
|
||||
* [Assets](/concepts/assets.md)
|
||||
* [Speculative asset](/concepts/speculation.md)
|
||||
* [DAO](/concepts/dao.md)
|
||||
* [Stablecoin](../concepts/stablecoin.md)
|
||||
* [Regulatory arbitrage](../concepts/regulatory-arbitrage.md)
|
||||
* [Central Bank Digital Currency](../concepts/cbdc.md)
|
||||
* [Central bank digital currency](../concepts/cbdc.md)
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
||||
### Claims
|
||||
|
||||
Explore crypto and web3 in terms of the claims made about it.
|
||||
Explore crypto and "web3" in terms of the claims made about it. These subclaims fall into six categories about different aspects of either technical, financial or political reconfiguration projects.
|
||||
|
||||
1. [Is bitcoin a currency?](/claims/is-bitcoin-currency.md)
|
||||
2. [What type of asset is a crypto token?](/claims/what-type-of-asset.md)
|
||||
3. [How do we value a crypto token?](/claims/valuation-model.md)
|
||||
4. [Are crypto assets a systemic risk to the economy?](../claims/systemic-risk.md)
|
||||
5. [Are crypto tokens a negative-sum investment?](/claims/negative-sum.md)
|
||||
6. [Are crypto tokens a predatory investment?](../claims/predatory-investments.md)
|
||||
7. Is bitcoin the basis for a new gold standard?
|
||||
8. Is bitcoin mining harmful to the environment?
|
||||
9. Are crypto assets a risk to the dollar?
|
||||
10. [Are crypto assets legal?](/claims/legality.md)
|
||||
11. [Is crypto a solution for the unbanked?](/claims/crypto-unbanked.md)
|
||||
12. [What is the narrative economics of crypto assets?](../claims/narrative-economics.md)
|
||||
13. Is web3 the next generation of the internet?
|
||||
14. Is web3 even a well-defined term?
|
||||
15. [Why does crypto have such a weird subculture?](/claims/weird-culture.md)
|
||||
16. Is web3 decentralized?
|
||||
17. Is web3 green?
|
||||
18. Why do people invest in crypto tokens?
|
||||
19. [Are crypto tokens a means to counter authoritarianism?](../claims/authoritarianism.md)
|
||||
20. Are crypto tokens a means to accelerate the collapse of capitalism?
|
||||
21. [Are crypto assets a bubble?](../claims/is-bubble.md)
|
||||
**Better Economy**
|
||||
|
||||
* [Is bitcoin a currency?](/claims/is-bitcoin-currency.md)
|
||||
* [Are crypto assets a risk to the dollar?](../claims/threaten-dollar.md)
|
||||
* [What type of asset is a crypto token?](/claims/what-type-of-asset.md)
|
||||
* [How do we value a crypto token?](/claims/valuation-model.md)
|
||||
* [Are crypto assets a systemic risk to the economy?](../claims/systemic-risk.md)
|
||||
* [Is bitcoin the basis for a new gold standard?](../claims/digital-gold.md)
|
||||
* [Are crypto assets a bubble?](../claims/is-bubble.md)
|
||||
|
||||
**Financial Inclusion**
|
||||
|
||||
* [Is crypto a solution for the unbanked?](/claims/crypto-unbanked.md)
|
||||
* [Are crypto assets legal?](/claims/legality.md)
|
||||
* [Are crypto tokens a predatory investment?](../claims/predatory-investments.md)
|
||||
* [Are crypto tokens a negative-sum investment?](/claims/negative-sum.md)
|
||||
* Why do people invest in crypto tokens?
|
||||
* Is crypto providing faster payment rails or better remittance services?
|
||||
* [Why does crypto have such a weird subculture?](/claims/weird-culture.md)
|
||||
|
||||
**Solving Public Goods Problems**
|
||||
|
||||
* [Is bitcoin mining harmful to the environment?](../claims/environmental-footprint.md)
|
||||
* Is crypto bringing about the "financialization of everything"?
|
||||
|
||||
**Financial Innovation**
|
||||
|
||||
* [Is web3 even a well-defined term?](../claims/well-defined.md)
|
||||
* Is web3 green?
|
||||
* [Is web3 decentralized?](../claims/crypto-decentralized.md)
|
||||
* [Is web3 the next generation of the internet?](../claims/new-internet.md)
|
||||
|
||||
**Creative Destruction**
|
||||
|
||||
* Is web3 a means to dismantle the American tech hegemony?
|
||||
* Are crypto tokens a means to accelerate the collapse of capitalism?
|
||||
|
||||
**International Politics**
|
||||
|
||||
* [What is the narrative economics of crypto assets?](../claims/narrative-economics.md)
|
||||
* [Are crypto tokens a means to counter authoritarianism?](../claims/authoritarianism.md)
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
||||
## Contextual
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -62,6 +87,8 @@ Understand crypto and "web3" in terms of recent news events and interviews.
|
|||
* [Video Interviews](/guide/interviews)
|
||||
* [Recent News Stories](/notes/recent-events.md)
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
||||
## Ideologies
|
||||
|
||||
Explore crypto and "web3" in terms of different perspectives on politics and economics.
|
||||
|
|
@ -69,12 +96,16 @@ Explore crypto and "web3" in terms of different perspectives on politics and eco
|
|||
* [Market Fundamentalism](../concepts/ideologies/market-fundamentalism.md)
|
||||
* [Financial Nihilism](../concepts/ideologies/financial-nihilism.md)
|
||||
* [Austrian Economics](../concepts/ideologies/austrian-economics.md)
|
||||
* [Libertarianism](../concepts//idelogies/libertarianism.md)
|
||||
* [Technolibertarianism](../concepts//idelogies/technolibertarianism.md)
|
||||
* [Technosolutionism](../concepts/ideologies/technosolutionism.md)
|
||||
* [Keynsian Economics](../concepts/ideologies/keynsian-economics.md)
|
||||
* [Post State Technocracy](../concepts/ideologies/post-state-technocracy.md)
|
||||
* [Libertarianism](../concepts/ideologies/libertarianism.md)
|
||||
* [Technolibertarianism](../concepts/idelogies/technolibertarianism.md)
|
||||
* [Technosolutionism](../concepts/ideologies/technosolutionism.md)
|
||||
* [Technocollectivism](../concepts/ideologies/techno-collectivism.md)
|
||||
* [Keynsian Economics](../concepts/ideologies/keynsian-economics.md)
|
||||
* [Accelerationism](../concepts/ideologies/accelerationism.md)
|
||||
* [Cryptoanarchism](../concepts/ideologies/cryptoanarchism.md)
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
||||
## Supporting Concepts
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -82,31 +113,35 @@ Understand the deeper theoretical concepts behind the technical and economic cla
|
|||
|
||||
**Economics**
|
||||
|
||||
* [Artificial-scarcity](/concepts/artificial-scarcity.md)
|
||||
* [Artificial scarcity](/concepts/artificial-scarcity.md)
|
||||
* [Asymmetric information](/concepts/asymmetric-information.md)
|
||||
* [Central banks](/concepts/central-banks.md)
|
||||
* [Currency](/concepts/currency.md)
|
||||
* [Currency-peg](/concepts/currency-peg.md)
|
||||
* [Currency peg](/concepts/currency-peg.md)
|
||||
* [Free rider problem](/concepts/free-rider-problem.md)
|
||||
* [Gold standard](/concepts/gold-standard.md)
|
||||
* [Market manipulation](/concepts/market-manipulation.md)
|
||||
* [Moral hazard](/concepts/moral-hazard.md)
|
||||
* [Public goods problem](/concepts/public-goods-problem.md)
|
||||
* [Public goods](/concepts/public-goods-problem.md)
|
||||
* [Zero-sum game](/concepts/zero-sum-game.md)
|
||||
* [Liquidity](../concepts/liquidity.md)
|
||||
* [Pump and Dump](../concepts/pump-and-dump.md)
|
||||
* [Multilevel Marketing Scheme](../concepts/mlm.md)
|
||||
* [Pyramid Scheme](../concepts/pyramid.md)
|
||||
* [Ponzi Scheme](../concepts/ponzi.md)
|
||||
* [Pump and dump scheme](../concepts/pump-and-dump.md)
|
||||
* [Multilevel marketing scheme](../concepts/mlm.md)
|
||||
* [Pyramid scheme](../concepts/pyramid-scheme.md)
|
||||
* [Ponzi scheme](../concepts/ponzi-scheme.md)
|
||||
* [Meme stocks](../concepts/meme-stock.md)
|
||||
* [Reserve currency](../concepts/reserve-currency.md)
|
||||
* [Wash trading](../concepts/wash-trading.md)
|
||||
|
||||
**Technology**
|
||||
|
||||
* [Blockchain](/concepts/blockchain.md)
|
||||
* [Cryptoasset](/concepts/cryptoasset.md)
|
||||
* [Immutability](../concepts/immutability.md)
|
||||
* [Crypto Wallet](../concepts/wallet.md)
|
||||
* [Decentralized Finance (DeFi)](/concepts/defi.md)
|
||||
* [Decentralization](/concepts/decentralization.md)
|
||||
* [Initial Coin Offering (ICO)1](/concepts/ico.md)
|
||||
* [Initial Coin Offering (ICO)](/concepts/ico.md)
|
||||
* [Non-fungible token (NFT)](/concepts/nft.md)
|
||||
* [Ransomware](/concepts/ransomware.md)
|
||||
* [Smart contracts](/concepts/smart-contracts.md)
|
||||
|
|
@ -120,12 +155,26 @@ Understand the deeper theoretical concepts behind the technical and economic cla
|
|||
|
||||
**Regulation**
|
||||
|
||||
* [Securities Framework](/concepts/security.md)
|
||||
* [Anti-money Laundering Law](/concepts/aml.md)
|
||||
* [Securities framework](/concepts/security.md)
|
||||
* [Anti-money laundering law](/concepts/aml.md)
|
||||
* [Know Your Customer Law](/concepts/kyc.md)
|
||||
* [Money Laundering](../concepts/money-laundering.md)
|
||||
* [Regulatory Capture](../concepts/regulatory-capture.md)
|
||||
* [Money Services Business](../concepts/money-services-business.md)
|
||||
* [Money laundering](../concepts/money-laundering.md)
|
||||
* [Regulatory capture](../concepts/regulatory-capture.md)
|
||||
* [Money services business](../concepts/money-services-business.md)
|
||||
* [Deposit Insurance](../concepts/deposit-insurance.md)
|
||||
* [Counter-terrorism Financing](../concepts/ctf.md)
|
||||
* [Illicit Financing](../concepts/illicit-financing.md)
|
||||
* [Counter-terrorism financing](../concepts/ctf.md)
|
||||
* [Illicit financing](../concepts/illicit-financing.md)
|
||||
* [Broker-dealer](../concepts/broker.md)
|
||||
|
||||
**Sociology**
|
||||
|
||||
* [Value](../concepts/value.md)
|
||||
* [Bubbles](../concepts/bubble.md)
|
||||
* ["Madness of crowds"](../concepts/madness-crowds.md)
|
||||
* [High control groups](../concepts/high-control-group.md)
|
||||
* [Thought terminating cliche](../concepts/thought-terminating-cliches.md)
|
||||
* [Sign value](../concepts/sign-value.md)
|
||||
* [Bandwagon bias](../concepts/bandwagon-bias.md)
|
||||
* [Tinkerbell effect](../concepts/tinkerbell-effect.md)
|
||||
* [Endowment effect](../concepts/endowment-effect.md)
|
||||
* [Predatory inclusion](../concepts/predatory-inclusion.md)
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
|
|||
# Conceps TODO
|
||||
|
||||
First pass
|
||||
|
||||
- [ ] [keynsian-economics](../concepts/ideologies/keynsian-economics.md)
|
||||
- [x] [libertarianism](../concepts/ideologies/libertarianism.md)
|
||||
- [x] [market-fundamentalism](../notes/market-fundamentalism.md)
|
||||
|
|
@ -28,7 +31,9 @@
|
|||
- [x] [wash-trading](../concepts/wash-trading.md)
|
||||
- [x] [web3](../concepts/web3.md)
|
||||
|
||||
Second Pass
|
||||
|
||||
- [ ] [private-money](../concepts/private-money.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [amm](../concepts/amm.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [artificial-scarcity](../concepts/artificial-scarcity.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [assets](../concepts/assets.md)
|
||||
|
|
@ -53,11 +58,45 @@
|
|||
- [ ] [order-book](../concepts/order-book.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [platform-risk](../concepts/platform-risk.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [capital-formation](../concepts/capital-formation.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [private-key](../concepts/private-key.md)
|
||||
- [x] [private-key](../concepts/private-key.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [pyramid-scheme](../concepts/pyramid-scheme.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [mlm](../concepts/mlm.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [rtgs](../concepts/rtgs.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [staking](../concepts/staking.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [systemic-risk](../concepts/systemic-risk.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [yield-farming](../concepts/yield-farming.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [stablecoin](../concepts/stablecoin.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [stablecoin](../concepts/stablecoin.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [capital-formation](../concepts/capital-formation.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [commercial-paper](../concepts/commercial-paper.md)
|
||||
- [x] [reserve-currency](../concepts/reserve-currency.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [pseudonymous](../concepts/pseudonymous.md)
|
||||
- [x] [bearer-instrument](../concepts/bearer-instrument.md)
|
||||
- [x] [memecoin](../concepts/memecoin.md)
|
||||
- [x] [paper-wealth](../concepts/paper-wealth.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [endowment-effect](../concepts/endowment-effect.md)
|
||||
- [x] [bandwagon-bias](../concepts/bandwagon-bias.md)
|
||||
|
||||
Claims
|
||||
|
||||
- [ ] [authoritarianism](../claims/authoritarianism.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [crypto-decentralized](../claims/crypto-decentralized.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [environmental-footprint](../claims/environmental-footprint.md)
|
||||
- [x] [is-bubble](../claims/is-bubble.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [narrative-economics](../concepts/narrative-economics.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [digital-gold](../claims/digital-gold.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [new-internet](../claims/new-internet.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [risk-to-state](../claims/risk-to-state.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [systemic-risk](../concepts/systemic-risk.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [threaten-dollar](../claims/threaten-dollar.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [valuation-model](../concepts/valuation-model.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [what-type-of-asset](../claims/what-type-of-asset.md)
|
||||
|
||||
Ideologies
|
||||
|
||||
- [ ] [accelerationism](../concepts/ideologies/accelerationism.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [capitalism](../concepts/ideologies/capitalism.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [cryptoanarchism](../concepts/ideologies/cryptoanarchism.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [inevitablism](../concepts/ideologies/inevitablism.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [keynsian-economics](../concepts/ideologies/keynsian-economics.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [technolibertarianism](../concepts/ideologies/technolibertarianism.md)
|
||||
- [ ] [technosolutionism](../concepts/ideologies/technosolutionism.md)
|
||||
|
|
@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ In Episode 1 of the series, Rufus Pollock and Stephen Diehl discuss the neo-meta
|
|||
|
||||
## Topic
|
||||
|
||||
[new-gold](../claims/new-gold.md)
|
||||
[digital-gold](../claims/digital-gold.md)
|
||||
|
||||
## Concepts Covered
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,7 +1,24 @@
|
|||
# Recent Events
|
||||
Sources: https://www.ft.com/cryptocurrencies
|
||||
Sources:
|
||||
|
||||
## # NCA calls for regulation of crypto mixers used in ‘churning criminal cash’
|
||||
* https://www.ft.com/cryptocurrencies
|
||||
* https://www.bloomberg.com/crypto
|
||||
* https://techcrunch.com/tag/web3/
|
||||
* https://techcrunch.com/tag/crypto/
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
||||
## Andreessen Horowitz Hires Former Prosecutor for Crypto Role
|
||||
|
||||
*March 16, 2022*
|
||||
|
||||
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-15/andreessen-horowitz-hires-former-prosecutor-for-crypto-role
|
||||
|
||||
See: [regulatory-capture](../concepts/regulatory-capture.md) | [regulatory-arbitrage](../concepts/regulatory-arbitrage.md) | [market-manipulation](../concepts/market-manipulation.md)
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
||||
## NCA calls for regulation of crypto mixers used in ‘churning criminal cash’
|
||||
|
||||
*March 15, 2022*
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -9,6 +26,8 @@ https://www.ft.com/content/c6df2b68-a244-4560-9911-88cc1fa61576
|
|||
|
||||
See: [aml](../concepts/aml.md) | [crypto-exchange](../concepts/crypto-exchange.md) | [illicit-financing](../concepts/illicit-financing.md) | [regulatory-arbitrage](../concepts/regulatory-arbitrage.md)
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
||||
## White House Is Set to Put Itself at Center of U.S. Crypto Policy
|
||||
|
||||
*March 15, 2022*
|
||||
|
|
@ -17,6 +36,8 @@ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-21/white-house-is-set-to-put-its
|
|||
|
||||
See: [regulatory-capture](../concepts/regulatory-capture.md) | [security](../concepts/security.md) | [systemic-risk](../concepts/systemic-risk.md)
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
||||
## Web3 allows tech to indulge in its love of both speculation and idealism
|
||||
|
||||
March 4, 2022
|
||||
|
|
@ -25,6 +46,8 @@ https://www.ft.com/content/879ae372-bb3b-4aa1-a264-ce32304a77d9
|
|||
|
||||
See: [web3](../concepts/web3.md) | [speculation](../concepts/speculation.md) | [technolibertarianism](../concepts/ideologies/technolibertarianism.md)
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
||||
## Crypto exchanges resist calls for ban on Russia transactions
|
||||
|
||||
*March 1, 2022*
|
||||
|
|
@ -33,10 +56,14 @@ https://www.ft.com/content/33c79ec2-6d26-4083-9093-2f05c3010536
|
|||
|
||||
See: [crypto-exchange](../concepts/crypto-exchange.md) | [aml](../concepts/aml.md) | [regulatory-arbitrage](../concepts/regulatory-arbitrage.md)
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
||||
## Business Rapper Was Bad at Bitcoin Laundering
|
||||
|
||||
*February 9, 2022*
|
||||
|
||||
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-09/business-rapper-was-bad-at-bitcoin-laundering
|
||||
|
||||
See: [aml](../concepts/aml.md) | [crypto-exchange](../concepts/crypto-exchange.md) | [shadow-bank](../concepts/shadow-bank.md)
|
||||
See: [aml](../concepts/aml.md) | [crypto-exchange](../concepts/crypto-exchange.md) | [money-laundering](../concepts/money-laundering.md)
|
||||
|
||||
***
|
||||
|
|
@ -57,12 +57,11 @@ function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
|
|||
}}
|
||||
/>
|
||||
}
|
||||
<Layout title={pageProps.title}>
|
||||
{ Component.layout == 'js' &&
|
||||
<Component {...pageProps} />
|
||||
}
|
||||
{ Component.layout != 'js' &&
|
||||
<MdxPage children={{ Component, pageProps }} />
|
||||
<Layout title={pageProps.title ?? siteConfig.title}>
|
||||
{
|
||||
Component.layout == 'js'
|
||||
? <Component {...pageProps} />
|
||||
: <MdxPage children={{ Component, pageProps }} />
|
||||
}
|
||||
</Layout>
|
||||
</ThemeProvider>
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This is an open collaborative project. We already have a variety of partners and
|
|||
|
||||
### If you like research and writing
|
||||
|
||||
* Contribute to the [library][], for example by adding articles and research on web3 and background topics.
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* Contribute to the [library][], for example by adding articles, papers and research on web3 and background topics.
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* Write up key concepts and ideas. You can check out our [existing guide][guide] to see which ones could be extended or improved.
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* See our [concepts-todo](../../meta/concepts-todo.md) task list for open topics.
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* Proof edit articles and transcribe dialogs. Please [get in touch][contact] to find out more.
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### Setup
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