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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).**

**Cockroach Fallacy**

- **Cockroach Fallacy**: Suggests aggregation doesn't reduce security via risk sharing because miners and the economy will disperse if needed, like cockroaches.

- **Implication**: This implies security exists because it potentially could, ignoring the Threat Level Paradox where security evolves under threat.

- **Grinders and Allegiance**: Relies on miners switching allegiance, based on the Balance of Power Fallacy, which incorrectly sees miners as the threat. Shifting hash power doesn't reduce pooling risk.

- **State Control**: States can co-opt large hash power, reducing attack costs. Assuming large mines can exist outside state control is flawed.

- **Increasing Miners**: Reducing pooling requires more covert miners, increasing costs for grinders (_grind is a tool that performs hashing_).

- **Economic Irrationality**: People won't act against financial interest; reversing financial pressures is needed for increased risk sharing.

- **Ignoring Centralization**: Ignores economic centralization and delegation. Rapid decentralization or de-delegation is unlikely, especially under state attacks with currency controls.

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

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