Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
by Vitalik Buterin (writing from Singapore Dec 2020)
"People are motivated not just by earning as much money as possible in the work and extracting enjoyment from their money in their family lives; even at work we are motivated by social status, honor, altruism, reciprocity, a feeling of contribution, different social conceptions of what is good and valuable, and much more."
There’s a New Vision for Crypto, and It’s Wildly Different From Bitcoin
"The second possibility is that new modes of social coordination emerge . You might think NFTs seem kind of dumb. (Disclosure: I think NFTs are kind of dumb.) But obviously a lot of people think differently. People continue to pay real money for the right to claim ownership of some piece of digital content. I...