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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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