Infinite Games: How Crypto Is ‘LARPing’

Infinite Games: How Crypto Is ‘LARPing’
At the 2018 “Devcon” Ethereum Developers Conference in Prague, internet guru and self-proclaimed “culture hacker” Stewart Brand shared the book that changed his life: “Finite and Infinite Games” by philosophy scholar James Carse.“Infinite players look forward, not to a victory … but towards ongoing play,” states the book as an analogy to pushing cultural boundaries and hacking society to pursue serious goals, with a playful approach. Crypto communities are doing just this, and changing economics, policy and culture as they go.Culture Week is part of CoinDesk’s Crypto 2022 series, which also includes Policy Week and Future of Money Week.The global…