Soft Money: Does a Crypto Network Exist Without a Community?
Maria Paula and Sunny Aggarwal outline the different approaches to sustaining a creative and productive blockchain community and discuss the importance of both compromise and dissent.
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Maria Paula of ETHBerlin and Sunny Aggarwal of Sikka discuss what makes a healthy cryptocurrency community, how narratives affect consensus and how crypto platforms’ consensus compares to the design process of the internet. This segment is hosted by CoinDesk’s Joon Ian Wong and London School of Economics PhD student Annaliese Milano.
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