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docs: 📄 update smart contract incentives definition

Refined explanation of smart contract incentives and clarified potential for second order consequences in blockchain incentives.

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Blockchain.md
··· 12 12 - Fungible (there isn't a difference between two items. eg. storing files). All the coins are mutually interchangeable. 13 13 - The resource can be provided by a lot of people. 14 14 - Smart contracts can be defined as code that's replicated and executed on all the blockchain nodes. 15 - - You can encode "human rights" in a smart contract and the contract will enforce them. 15 + - You can encode "incentives" in a smart contract that will be enforced by the code. This drives behavior. 16 16 - Smart contracts allow permissionless composability. [Composability allows anyone in a network to take existing programs and adapt or build on top of them, it unlocks completely new use cases that don't exist in our world](https://future.a16z.com/how-composability-unlocks-crypto-and-everything-else/). 17 17 - [Blockchains could replace networks with markets](https://twitter.com/naval/status/877467629308395521). 18 18 - One of the main downsides of blockchains is that most humans are not good at protecting their passwords, credentials or private keys. ··· 20 20 - Blockchains solve distribution problems but they don't solve the problem of who will add the money to the ecosystem. That's a political one. Unless there are good incentives to move to blockchains. 21 21 - Once a system moves to a blockchain, it'll get its properties (e.g: transparency and verifiability). 22 22 - Open source has the failure mode of not enough incentives, cryptocurrency has the failure mode of excessive and overly concentrated incentives. 23 - - Blockchain incentives can have large real world undesired consequences. E.g: Bitcoin incentivizes miners to use a lot of energy. 23 + - Blockchain incentives can have large real world undesired second order consequences. E.g: Bitcoin incentivizes miners to use a lot of energy.