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   "text": "As a network grows its members become more anonymous and individually less important, which makes cheating more locally enticing and less globally noticeable, so the system eventually collapses once cheating is obviously the best individual strategy.",
   "abstract": "As the network grows, however, the members become more anonymous. Individually they become less im- portant, so cheating is more locally enticing and less noticeable globally. Eventually (or immediately) the system will collapse when it becomes obvious cheating is the best individual strategy.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782210",
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   "text": "Demand for insurance and reputation policing runs counter to prosperity: when the system runs well and everyone profits there is less need for insurance, and when profits fall and competition intensifies cheating becomes more attractive and more policing is needed.",
   "abstract": "If the system is running well and everyone is profiting, there is less need for insurance. When the profits decrease and the system becomes more competitive, cheating becomes more attractive, and more insurance and reputation policing is needed.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220",
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