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Let’s take a break from mining and deployment and talk about some of the design choices that went into Ethereum: specifically, those around its system of economic incentives and disincentives.
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Dannen, C. (2017). Cryptoeconomics Survey. In: Introducing Ethereum and Solidity. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2535-6_7
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