
Digital Salon with Vitalik Buterin: Mechanism Design in Political Theory
Palladium Podcast
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Cryptocurrencies Are Discovered, Right?
Hu: One of the big kind of underlying themes here in all these projects is, i've seen it as trying to replace corruptible berocratic systems with incorruptible protocols and mechanisms. But obviously, social engineering is a very negative connentation, especially among people with more libertarian sentiments,. So i'm interested, was this an evolution you had to make in your thinking at all? Or if not, but how have you communicated that to other people in your space? Hu: There's definitely kind of a bit of a divide here within the kind of the crypto currency space, which is basically, kind of, it's almost like our crypto currencies invented or discovered. Whereas on the e
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