# kaal:claim:3782216-006

**Claim.** Maintaining consensus without a central authority forces a reputation system to verify members' votes extremely redundantly, which imposes serious computational overhead.

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

**Holds when.**

- decentralized networks with no central authority

**Source quote.**

> In order to maintain consensus in a decentralized network, with no central authority to check in with, a reputational system needs to verify each others' votes extremely redundantly, which leads to serious overhead costs in computation.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Finance (DeFi)* (2021), Banking and ZKRollups

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782216

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `f1739743aa06bbc1641cd65da790d531b69d8628ea3f5cc3fcad1bf5a1242373` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Decentralized%20Finance%20%28DeFi%29.pdf

**Topics.** reputation, consensus-and-security, decentralization

**Keywords.** reputation, consensus, computation-overhead, decentralization

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