# kaal:claim:3266953-017

**Claim.** Meaningful and secure reputation tokens supply the incentives needed for secure proof of stake consensus in block production, which eliminates the unsustainable inefficiencies of proof of work based blockchains.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- tokens that represent reputation per type of expertise

**Source quote.**

> giving the proper incentives for guaranteeing secure proof-of- stake consensus protocols for block production. This eliminates the unsustainable inefficiencies of proof-of-work based blockchains.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Semada Platform, page 12

**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.** consensus-and-security, reputation, tokenomics, economics

**Keywords.** proof-of-work, consensus, reputation-tokens, energy-efficiency

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- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3931933-001

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