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

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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.