From d338357da9e208cc6f5b5fd50bdcc193ad997ce8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: silentconsensus Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:42:02 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] feat: create Crypto Economicon article (refs #202) --- source/_articles/crypto-economicon-1.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 source/_articles/crypto-economicon-1.md diff --git a/source/_articles/crypto-economicon-1.md b/source/_articles/crypto-economicon-1.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9d2fe9ba --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_articles/crypto-economicon-1.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: Crypto Economicon +date: 2015-01-26 +description: "A small technical conference organized by Kieren James-Lubin and others in San Francisco in late January 2015, focusing on crypto economics" +--- + +The Crypto Economicon was a small, invite-only technical conference held in San Francisco in late January 2015. It was organized by Kieren James-Lubin and others who knew that many people from the Ethereum and broader blockchain community would be in the Bay Area that week. + +## Origins + +As Kieren James-Lubin described in his interview: + +> "We decided to run kind of a parallel technical conference that week, which we named the verbose Crypto Economicon." + +The name was inspired by the emerging field of "crypto economics," a term either invented or popularized by Vitalik Buterin and explored extensively by Vlad Zamfir in his work on proof of stake. + +## Format + +The conference had approximately 60 attendees and featured two academic track days and a business track day. It was co-hosted with a company called Coinify, run by Tom Ding, in a building in San Francisco. + +## Significance + +Despite its small size, the conference brought together many people who would go on to become major figures in the blockchain space: + +> "That conference was like 60 people... almost everyone who went either is already a well-known figure, if they weren't then, or went on to do something really, really interesting." — Kieren James-Lubin + +It was at this conference that Kieren James-Lubin met Victor Wong in person for the first time. The two, along with Jim Hormuzdiar, would go on to co-found BlockApps.