# kaal:claim:3266953-013

**Claim.** Reputation does not push a network toward centralization the way currency does, because reputation must be earned and can be lost yet cannot be turned into a fungible store of value exchangeable for goods.

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

**Holds when.**

- reputation held as a non transferable metric

**Source quote.**

> Reputation as a metric and store of value does not suffer the same consequences described above and does not lead to centralization because it must be earned, it can be lost, yet it cannot be turned into a fungible store of value that allows the exchange for goods etc.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Reputation as True Decentralization, page 10

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

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**Topics.** reputation, decentralization

**Keywords.** reputation, non-fungibility, decentralization, store-of-value

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-024
- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-035

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