# kaal:claim:3125822-008

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

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

**Source quote.**

> 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, page 10

**Cite as.** 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

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**Topics.** consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** non-purchasability, fifty-fifty-staking, entry-control, sybil-resistance

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