Plain Strata B3: Skin in the Game
A landlord hands an apartment key to a tenant they have never met. The tenant could trash the place, skip town, and never pay for the damage. What stops them? Not the landlord's trust, and not the tenant's good character. A security deposit. A pile of the tenant's own money that disappears if the apartment gets wrecked. The deposit converts a question of character into a question of arithmetic. Decentralized AI networks run on exactly this idea, scaled up and automated. No landlord, no police, no company enforcing good behavior. Only money at risk and a set of rules about when it disappears…
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