# Crypto community

`kaal:entity:crypto-community`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `crypto-community`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782201-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-033) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Instead of building compatible technologies in the service of interoperability, most crypto projects compete with each other, contradicting the open source culture the space needs if it has any hope of thriving.
  > Instead of building compatible tech- nologies in the service of interoperability, most are competing with each other, con- tradicting the open source culture that should pervade the space if it has any hope of thriving.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201
- [3808873-004](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-004) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The libertarian and reformist orientation of the crypto community itself neutralizes decentralization, because the strong idea of reforming society with decentralized technology makes cooperation with existing centralized structures often suboptimal.
  > The idea of reforming society with decentralized technology remains strong in the crypto community. As a result, cooperation with existing centralized structures is often suboptimal.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873
- [3808873-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-005) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Decentralized issuers treated central bank issued digital currencies as a threat rather than as a pathway to mainstream acceptance of more decentralized cryptocurrencies, and that misreading forfeited a route to broader adoption.
  > Rather than seeing the central bank issued digital currencies as a pathway to mainstream acceptance of more decentralized cryptocurrencies, the decentralized issuers of digital assets and their community perceived their centralized counterparts as a threat.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

## Verify

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