Book: Cryptocurrency QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Digital Currencies, Bitcoin, and the Future of Decentralized Finance
Author: Jonathan Reichental
ISBN: 978-1-63610-041-8
Book: Cryptoeconomics
Authors: Jian Gong, Wei Xu
ISBN: 978-0-367-42993-5
Previous: Optimized Consensus | Next: Behavioral Economics
Chapter 4 is where Gong connects the dots. Consensus is not just computer science. It is mechanism design: set the rules so selfish players produce a good outcome anyway.
Book: Cryptoeconomics
Authors: Jian Gong, Wei Xu
ISBN: 978-0-367-42993-5
Previous: Consensus Mechanisms | Next: Game Theory
Chapter 3 is the longest chapter in the book, and it shows. Gong catalogs years of altcoin experiments and PoS research papers. If Chapter 2 was “what consensus is,” Chapter 3 is “what people tried to fix.”
Book: Cryptocurrency QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Digital Currencies, Bitcoin, and the Future of Decentralized Finance
Author: Jonathan Reichental
ISBN: 978-1-63610-041-8
Chapter: 5
From Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption by Erica Stanford (ISBN 9781398600683). This is a chapter retelling, not a substitute for the book.