kaal:claim:3125822-008

A newcomer cannot buy reputation with money because the 50/50 staking of newly minted tokens leaves incumbent experts with complete power to decide whether the newcomer's contribution was positive; a losing applicant forfeits all reputation in the expertise.

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The 50/50 stake guarantees a new expert cannot simply buy expertise, as the previous experts have complete power to decide whether the new expert has contributed positively to the platform.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018), 3.2.1 New experts, p. 10
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822

Holds when

applies at entry into an existing expertise tag
assumes incumbent experts vote in their own interest

Classification

mechanismsupport: arguedconsensus-and-security

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