Reading for This Project

Right now I am numbering these sequentially, starting with 1 at the top of each section. We probably want a better way to index these.

General reading and good Starting Points

1. https://blog.zgp.org/the-third-connection-in-benkler-s-tripod/

2. https://blog.zgp.org/transactions-from-a-future-software-market/

3. Dominant assurance markets - project proposer must have skin in the game - http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/PrivateProvision.pdf

4. https://blog.zgp.org/some-ways-that-bug-futures-markets-differ-from-open-source-bounties/

Algorithms - Prediction Markets, Scoring Rules, Payout Rules, etc.

1. Elicitation of Personal Probabilities and Forecasts. L. J. Savage, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 66(336):783-801, 1971.

2. Strictly Proper Scoring Rules, Prediction and Estimation. T. Gneiting and A. E. Raftery, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2007.

3. https://www.stat.washington.edu/raftery/Research/PDF/Gneiting2007jasa.pdf

4. Logarithmic Market Scoring Rules for Modular Combinatorial Information Aggregation. R. Hanson, Journal of Prediction Markets, 1(1):3-15, 2007.

5. http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/mktscore.pdf

6. http://authors.library.caltech.edu/44358/1/wp1131.pdf

7. http://shiftleft.com/mirrors/www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/future/future.pdf

8. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aothman/ghpm.pdf

9. https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/GooglePredictionMarketPaper.pdf

10. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs286r/courses/fall12/papers/Journal%20of%20the%20American%20Statistical%20Association%201971%20Savage.pdf

11. Basics of scoring rules from lesswrong: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Scoring_rule

12. Payout Rules considering root cause bugs - Rao et. al. - https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/33009631/Rao_witec14.pdf?sequence=1

OSS Health metrics and arguments for and against OSS

1. http://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure/

2. http://flosshub.org/system/files/kalweykoothslangenfurth.pdf

3. https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/roster/oss-health-metrics

Prediction Markets and the Law

1. http://www.tomwbell.com/writings/PrivatePMs&theLaw.pdf

CryptoCurrency backgrounders

Summary of all the crypto stuff you need to know

Interesting token-based incentivization systems with stablecoins:

1. Steem: https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf

2. Maker Sai: https://blog.makerdao.com/2017/06/05/introducing-sai/

Also on Sai: https://thecontrol.co/stablecoins-a-holy-grail-in-digital-currency-b64f3371e111 More on Sai: https://blog.makerdao.com/2017/06/05/introducing-sai/

Innovative networks

1. Bitcoin (decentralized consensus): https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

2. Ethereum (add a turing complete evm): https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper

3. Dash (add a governeance DAO with two-tier net and some other neat stuff):

Whitepaper: https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/Whitepaper

Explanatory videos: https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/DASH+School

Interview with the creator: https://www.dash.org/2017/07/07/evanonthecryptoshow.html

Token systems building layers upon governance:

1. Aragon provides governance and simplicity to DAOs: http://richbodo.pbworks.com/w/page/117910350/AragonOneNotes

2. District0x adds market features to Aragon: https://district0x.io/docs/district0x-whitepaper.pdf

CryptoEconomics

1. Vitalik overview - REQUIRED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKqdjaH1dRo

2. Overview of some game-theory vocab in the context of bitcoin: https://blockgeeks.com/guides/cryptocurrency-game-theory/

3. An interesting microsoft research paper that is very similar in theory to the contract-builder projects that are being implemented today (and that are listed on the similar projects page): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/composing-contracts-an-adventure-in-financial-engineering/

Market Economics

1. Vickrey - for usage of auction terminology - http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wlr/228aF04/Vickrey61.pdf

2. Peyton, Jones, Eber - How to write a financial contact - fascinating! - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2000/09/pj-eber.pdf