💫 [Analysis] Ethereum is game-changing technology, literally - Virgil Griffith

"What is Ethereum for?" is a question almost everyone asks, and Virgil Griffith, Special Projects at the Ethereum Foundation, offers a new answer. Traditionally, ideas of a "decentralized world computer" or even a "border-less currency network" similar to Bitcoin are offered. But Griffith suggests Ethereum ($ETH) is an unprecedented arena for playing cooperative games. Moreover, Ethereum enables powerful economic vehicles we don’t yet understand. In this analysis, Griffith unpacks these two angles of Ethereum's telos in the context of "game warping" using transparent, triggerable, unstoppable burns and on-chain side-payments.