Research summaries on philosophy of blockchain

This is something we’ve been wrestling with internally for months now. The mandate of the forum is to connect industry with researchers, build bridges between academia and engineers, etc. To get started, we’ve focused heavily on ‘hard’ science categories like cryptography and game theory.

The problem is that (I personally think) some of the most important things happening in the space are at the overlap between human coordination and immutable rule sets. Governance, culture, incentive and mechanism designs that support our better natures are equally important but far trickier concepts to define and measure.

Part of our challenge has been finding people that have the insight into these lines of reasoning who can help us out. Crypto is largely enamored with technical solutions, far harder to find people excited about ‘human’ solutions.

And perhaps the most tricky part: how can we host that content and have conversations that have some manner of empirical supporting evidence? Can we do it without creating drama and contention?

Where would be a good place to start answering these questions? What cultural blockchain research should we get familiar with?

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