# kaal:claim:3402701-028

**Claim.** In the contemporary climate these taxes and fees are unlikely to be implemented appropriately, because internet culture has trained users to expect free service from nodes and to hide the costs of running them.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- prevailing internet culture of free node service

**Source quote.**

> In the contemporary climate, however, these taxes or fees are not likely to be implemented appropriately

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, *Stable Cryptocurrencies - First Order Principles* (2019), 3.2 TRANSACTION TAXES VS. HOLDING TAXES, page 24

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, Stable Cryptocurrencies - First Order Principles (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3402701

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**Failure mode.** expectation-of-free-node-service  (family: staking-and-incentive-misalignment)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** transaction-taxes, internet-culture, node-costs, implementation-failure

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