Steve Waldman (https://twitter.com/interfluidity) will speak on valuation of cryptographic assets such as Bitcoin and Ether. Cryptoassets are arguably the most abstract tokens ever devised for the purpose of compelling human action with promises of value. Moreover, in contrast to traditional financial assets which have evolved through centuries of wealth creation, fraud, and regulation, cryptocurrency proponents hope to engineer new assets, at scale and in internet time. The imminent launch of Ethereum may reduce barriers to inventing new tokens dramatically. But no engineering discipline can succeed if the theories it puts into practice aren’t serviceably accurate. Steve will argue that some common intuitions regarding supply, demand, and scarcity should be treated with caution, and discuss balance-sheet and game-theoretic approaches to cryptoasset valuation and design.



Steve (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Randy_Waldman) has been cited by the NT Times and the Financial Times; for more see Steve's blog at interfluidity.com (http://www.interfluidity.com/), and this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CFlA8TdWmk) of a talk he gave to us on "Engineering Economic Security" using Ethereum.