# kaal:claim:2992962-039

**Claim.** Because no conceivable way exists to permanently hide an arbiter's reputation from the arbiter in an open system, the corruption risk created by high reputation arbiters becoming valued counselors for disputants is an insoluble problem with the authors' own proposal.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- open reputation systems for anonymous arbiters

**Source quote.**

> Because no conceivable way exists to permanently hide an arbiter's reputation from the arbiter in an open system, this is an insoluble problem with the proposal.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, *Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution* (2017), 2. Anonymous Arbiter Expertise, footnote 107, page 57

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `80b92e67594394e38af41b769327936833de8e25d6cf3def966a6ba13bc83d17` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20and%20Calcaterra%20-%202017%20-%20Crypto%20Transaction%20Dispute%20Resolution.pdf

**Failure mode.** insoluble-arbiter-reputation-corruption  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** reputation, decentralization

**Keywords.** arbiter-reputation, conflicts-of-interest, centralization, self-critique

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