Behavioral Crypto-Economics: The challenge and promise of blockchain incentive design

Posted on Mar 23, 2018

Behavioral Crypto-Economics: The challenge and promise of blockchain incentive design

In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto designed Bitcoin to align the incentives of computers. In 2018, we are building multi-billion dollar blockchain projects, incentivizing humans using the same principles. We are assuming the efficient market hypothesis and the wisdom of the crowds.

But what happens when the crowds are not thatwise?

Source: medium.com