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14. Tokens (fungible)
James Currier • Network Bonding Theory: Grow Your Startup By Making It A Network
GOAT (#16) is a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling authenticated streetwear and sneakers.
Andrew Chen • The a16z Marketplace 100: 2020 | Andreessen Horowitz
Money is not the coins, or the balances, or even the UTXOs, but the consensus around economic behavior and reality these “tokens” capture.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
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Brett Scott • Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
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Steffen Mau • The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social
Money is an information system that records and updates who has done work that is valued by others, such that credit can be universalized and socially scaled.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
status is necessarily nebulous, it's much less of an abstraction than money. This is the basic currency of social animals: it can be traded, saved, invested, loaned out, or crystallised. Unlike health or knowledge capital, status is liquid—it can be readily exchanged for sex, information, money, or other favours.