The Most Important Scarce Resource Is Legitimacy
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- What’s going on here is a pattern of a similar type to what we saw with the not-yet-issued Bitcoin and Ethereum coin rewards: the coins were ultimately owned not by a cryptographic key, but by some kind of social contract.
title: “The Most Important Scarce Resource Is Legitimacy”
author: “vitalik.ca”
url: ”https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html”
date: 2023-12-19
source: pocket
tags: media/articles
The Most Important Scarce Resource Is Legitimacy
![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png)
Metadata
Highlights
- What’s going on here is a pattern of a similar type to what we saw with the not-yet-issued Bitcoin and Ethereum coin rewards: the coins were ultimately owned not by a cryptographic key, but by some kind of social contract.