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WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Jun 19, 2020

How Bitcoin changes incentives

Jimmy Song

Fiat money forces us onto an economic treadmill of endless inflation and asset hoarding. Bitcoin dismantles this rigged structure, realigning global incentives to reward genuine innovation.

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#1 about 5 min

How Bitcoin alters basic incentives across human social structures

Providing secure funding to activists reveals how decentralized money fundamentally changes modern monetary equations.

#2 about 12 min

Storing value and personal incentives under fiat money

Rampant currency inflation forces individuals to treat consumer goods as expensive stores of personal wealth.

#3 about 11 min

How the Cantillon effect incentivizes centralized corporate monopolies

Preferential access to centralized bank loans allows large conglomerates to prioritize debt-fueled growth over genuine innovation.

#4 about 10 min

National bureaucracies and the moral hazard of money printing

Unrestricted central banking removes government budget constraints and incentivizes costly bureaucratic rent-seeking behaviors.

#5 about 7 min

Understanding systemic fragility under the global dollar hegemony

The global reliance on a single fiat reserve creates economic fragility and disproportionately penalizes developing nations.

#6 about 2 min

Fixing localized and global systemic issues with decentralized money

Adopting a politically neutral monetary standard realigns societal incentives and reduces widespread systemic dysfunction.

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