Anonymity increases rather than decreases the value of reputation tokens, because when potential business partners have less knowledge of a counterparty's identity, the number of reputation tokens held becomes the more important signal.
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When potential business partners have less knowledge of your identity, the knowledge from the number of reputation tokens you hold becomes more important.
Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203
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anonymous or pseudonymous networks
incomplete information about counterparties
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mechanismsupport: arguedreputationtokenomics
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