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What is the fundamental value of Ethereum according to state of the art economic theory?
For example professional investor apply the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to determine the intrinsic value of an equity. What would be the result of such a financial analysis?
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Why does the Ethereum project have a coin?
As I understand, the Ethereum project provides an innovative technology for allowing developers to build distributed apps that can insert smart contracts in their blockchain and execute these on their distributed network.
Why do they need a coin for…
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What are the impacts of the Ethereum pre-sale, pyramidal wealth distribution, and mysterious lack of concern within a decentralized financial system?
As an Ethereum developer, one facet of it I have never understood is its unequal wealth distribution. Unequal wealth distribution makes fees more expensive for everyone because wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, who can drive up fees for…
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How much control does Consensys have over Ethereum, and how does this affect Ethereum's decentralization?
Sometimes I wonder about things like this:
The DAO was responsible for the generation of Ethereum Classic. This gave anyone who had invested in Ethereum prior to the fork a major investment boost.
The DAO was funded primarily Consensys. Consensys…
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Use of Ethereum and the circumventing of economic sanctions
Say if one stays in a state that is heavily sanctioned, e.g., north korea, iran and these states do not have crypto exchanges, how can one leverage etheruem to create economic transaction mechanism in the absence?
Decentralised crypto exchanges?
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