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Each time it initially started out with a gamable method knowing that the people incentivized to break the model would do so and that efforts to make the model ungabable would fail. What they did instead was iterate rapidly after market actors pointed out the flaws.
They were using customer money as bounties. Very much applied econ thinking to solve a novel business problem.
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