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Dominant Assurance Contracts | Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University - Foresight Institute

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There are many things that we all would like to see realized, but no individual has an incentive to contribute to. Assurance Contracts have a novel payoff structure. We pre-commit to take an action —such as giving x amount of $/BTC/other cryptocurrency to the longevity/journalism/open source project of our choice— if and only if enough others commit to do the same to reach a critical threshold. Dominant assurance contract have the added condition that if the funding benchmark isn’t reached, the provider pays a prize to the pledgers. Pledging becomes a dominant strategy, or in Tabarrok’s words, “a no-lose proposition—if enough people pledge you get the public good and if not enough pledge you get the prize.”

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