This is an interesting paper in a lot of ways. I think the least interesting part is what most media is reporting, that shockingly, Bitcoin didn't suddenly beco

This is an interesting paper in a lot of ways. I think the least interesting part is what most media is reporting, that shockingly, Bitcoin didn't suddenly become a massively decentralized network in its first two years of operation. The most intriguing part to me is this: "game in which anonymous players can choose to exploit, and thereby undermine, an appreciating good...we show that, even when individual payoffs are unchanged, cooperation is more frequent when the game is played by an anonymous group."