Theory: The Lost iEthereum Signal

Foreword
This article is a work of game theory, strategic observation, and opinion. It is not financial advice. There is no confirmation or denial of any affiliation between MIT Bitcoin Standard /Study, Apple and iEthereum. We are not founders of iEthereum. We are observers, researchers, and thinkers.

Introduction: A Signal Buried in Time

Three months before the iEthereum airdrop in October 2017, a fascinating academic paper emerged from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This paper, published in July 2017, studied the adoption behavior of early users in a cryptocurrency experiment involving MIT freshmen and $100 worth of Bitcoin.

The study’s central conclusion? Denying early adopters exclusivity stifles diffusion.

What makes this relevant to iEthereum? Everything and Nothing.

Where the MIT experiment was an academic inquiry into behavior and social contagion, iEthereum’s launch may have been a live inversion of the same findings — a counter-rhythm that appears to have been designed to maximize quiet diffusion by avoiding exclusivity entirely.

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