Marcel Mairhofer

A list of crypto readings and resources (2018-2019). It’s organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts — followed by specific topics such as: 

• governance; 


• privacy and security; 


• scaling; 


• consensus and governance; 


• cryptoeconomics, 


• cryptoassets,


• investing


• fundraising

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 This guide is a consolidation of curated, beginner-friendly resources that will help you understand this technology and the ecosystem around it.

 Part 1 - Introduction Mechanism Design - Programming human behavior through carefully designed incentives. Humans are goal-oriented machines that react to incentives. Incentives are produced by economic games that can be crafted and engineered. So we humans do something to reach a goal, and one of the most unifying goals is money. So we desi

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Good decisions create time, bad ones consume it. Good initial decisions pay dividends for years, allowing abundant free time and low stress. Poor decisions, on the other hand, consume time, increase anxiety, and drain us of energy.
Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.
 I find for myself that my firs... See more

Checklists don’t help you if you’re stupid about the checklist. You’re just not going to use it.

The key to understanding the limits to our knowledge (circle of competence) is to check the results of our decisions against what we thought was going to happen and why we thought it was going to happen. That feedback loop is incredibly powerful because our minds won’t provide it by themselves
Not all decisions need to be journaled. Decisi... See more

In crypto, the price follows this weird (but structured) feedback loop where it actually increases the fundamental value by rising.The rising price creates more interest, which leads to new ideas, new startups, and new projects who ultimately feedback into a positive price again due to the innovation happening.


What´s a Blockchain? A virtual

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