1/ There are at least two games you can play with cryptocurrency and blockchains. One could be called finite, the other infinite.
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2/ A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
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3/ More than other fields, crypto lends itself to being an infinite game.
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4/ The open-source, forkability of cryptocurrencies more than any other technology I’ve seen allows for the core component of infinite play: playing WITH boundaries instead of playing WITHIN boundaries.
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5/ There is a persistent illusion in our society that boundaries and rules exist outside of ourselves, but they do not.
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6/ All limitations are self-imposed. Seen in another way, every boundary is an ever-expanding horizon.
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See Carse’s newer book The Religious Case Against Belief for interesting stuff on boundaries vs horizons.

