Vitalik Buterin

Math genius takes economics seriously, terrible book ensues.

Needless to say Vitalik is a math and coding genius, and it shows in the ETH white paper and his article for fun math based games to play during Christmas.

The problem is that the rest of the book contents try to portray economics based solutions, to blockchain problems, that can never be proven as being completely wrong or right. I.e. games theory is a nice abstraction of real situations and an approach to modelling solutions but one should not take those as seriously as math proofs.

And if I have to read about "futarchy" again I swear to god I will commit suicide, or at the very least I will think about it, another nice concept that one should not pretend it can be implemented from one day to the next without big changes to society and for sure it does not merit being mentioned every few pages.… (mais)