# Hacking Incentives Book Club

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**Published on:** 2022-03-04
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In order to have a decentralised database, you need to have security. In order to have security, you need to have incentives. -Vitalik Buterin We think a great deal about incentives, incentive design, and incentive markets. We invite you to share some of our mindshare — and join our incentive hacking reading list. 1 — Blockchain Background 1.1 The authoritative Guide to Blockchain Development The authoritative guide to blockchain development Cryptocurrencies, ICOs, magic internet money — it’s all so damn exciting, and you, the eager developer, want to get in… medium.freecodecamp.org 1.2 Bitcoin Coursera Course by Princeton https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency 1.3 Stanford Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs251/ 2 — Whitepapers 2.1 Bitcoin https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf 2.2 Ethereum https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper 2.3 Stellar https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf 2.4 Lightning https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf 2.5 Monero https://whitepaperdatabase.com/monero-xmr-whitepaper/ 2.6 zCash http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf 2.7 Casper Whitepaper https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/papers/casper-basics/casper_basics.pdf 2.8 DFinity whitepaper https://dfinity.org/tech 3 — Incentive Research 3.1 On Bitcoin and Red Balloons https://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.2626.pdf 3.2 Reflecting on the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/4/106587-reflecting-on-the-darpa-red-balloon-challenge/fulltext 3.3 Query Incentive Networks https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/focs05-qin.pdf 3.4 Do Diffusion Protocols Govern Cascade Growth https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07368 3.5 The Strength of Weak Ties https://sociology.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/the_strength_of_weak_ties_and_exch_w-gans.pdf 3.6 Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/QJPS-14074 4 — Applications 4.1 Time Critical Social Mobilization: The DARPA Network Challenge Winning Strategy https://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.3172.pdf 4.2 Flash Organizations: Crowdsourcing Complex Work By Structuring Crowds as Organizations http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2017/flashorgs/flash-orgs-chi-2017.pdf 4.3 Crowdsourcing Contest Dilemma http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/11/99/20140532.short 5 — Cryptoeconomics 5.1 Selfish Mining Paper: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ie53/publications/btcProcFC.pdf 5.2 Asset Flow and Momentum: Deterministic and Stochastic Equations http://www2.pitt.edu/~caginalp/Paper70.pdf 5.3 Stablecoins: Designing a Price-Stable Cryptocurrency https://haseebq.com/stablecoins-designing-a-price-stable-cryptocurrency/ 6 — Potpourri 6.1 “The Rational Optimist” by Matt Ridley https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Optimist-Prosperity-Evolves-P-s-ebook/dp/B003QP4BJM 6.2 “Striking Thoughts” by Bruce Lee https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Lee-Striking-Thoughts-Library-ebook/dp/B014C57RYK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1530658575&sr=1-1&keywords=striking+thoughts 6.3 “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street Paperback” by John Brook Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street "Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read." -Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal What do the… www.amazon.com 6.4 “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” by Edwin Lefèvre Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (A Marketplace Book) "Although Reminiscences...was first published some seventy years ago, its take on crowd psychology and market timing is… www.amazon.com 6.5 “The Mythical Man Month” by Frederick Brooks Jr. https://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineering-Anniversary/dp/0201835959/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530659424&sr=1-1&keywords=Mythical+Man+Month

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