Free riders –those who don’t pay to play — pose a problem in the crypto space, just as they do in a more traditional way for governments worldwide. Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has co-authored a paper on how to protect the crypto sphere from free riding activity and keep it a more cooperative space.
There are free-riders in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. At least, that’s the contention of a new paper, shared with CoinDesk on Monday, written by ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin , Microsoft researcher Glen Weyl and Ph.D. of economics at Harvard, Zoë Hitzig. And free-riders pose a problem. Described in the paper, […]