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# Cryptoeconomics

**by [Erik Voskuil](https://github.com/evoskuil).**\

**The book can be found on [GitHub](https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Cryptoeconomics).**

### Censorship Resistance Property

- **Censorship Resistance Property**: Driven by transaction fees in Bitcoin.

- **Enforcement**: Similar to soft fork enforcement, majority hash power rejects non-censoring blocks.

- **Profitability**: Majority miners are profitable, making censorship cost-effective. Mining's anonymity allows control acquisition.

- **Fee Dynamics**: Censorship increases fees for unconfirmed transactions, incentivizing miners to confirm them.

- **Censorship Failure**: Non-censoring hash power can exceed censor's, unless subsidized by state via taxes.

- **State Role**: Must spend equivalent to fee premium to maintain censorship.

- **Fee Integration**: Essential for anonymity and resistance; block reward subsidies don't help.

- **Economic Impact**: Censorship might cause price collapse or increase. Survival depends on fee premiums.

- **Proof**: Impossible to prove sufficient fees or lack of censor subsidies, making resistance axiomatic.

The rest of the summarized chapters are at https://expatriotic.me

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