Sep / 2026
Why Markets for Ideas Keep Failing, and What Just Changed
People have been trying to build a market for ideas since at least 1986. The mechanism was never the problem. The buyer was. A Sudoku in Barbados On 26 February 2016, at the Financial Cryptography conference in Barbados, Gregory Maxwell bought the solution to a 16×16 Sudoku from Sean Bowe for 0.10 BTC, on the Bitcoin mainnet. Bowe published an Read more