Is there Social Value in Crypto Economics?

Abstract

Before the 2008 financial crisis, the term "crypto assets" was primarily the preserve of a<br> minority of computer scientists and engineers experimenting with new technologies as a<br> means of decentralizing finance. They subsequently launched the first projects involving<br> blockchain, but it was the white paper on Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 that<br> introduced crypto assets as an area of interest for investors and financial institutions with<br> higher risk appetites. The wider public followed shortly afterward and, later, regulators.