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Reputation systems that depend on persistent identity collapse in decentralized settings because agents can create new identities at no cost, so a poorly performing agent abandons its account and starts fresh, a practice known as whitewashing.

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First, the identity problem: Reputation systems built on persistent identity5 collapse when agents can costlessly create new identities. A poorly-performing agent simply abandons their account and starts fresh, a phenomenon known as whitewashing.6

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026), I.A. The Challenge of Autonomous Reputation Systems, p. 3
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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

Holds when

decentralized or pseudonymous environments where identity creation is costless

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: identity-whitewashingfamily: sybil-and-identity-attackreputationconsensus-and-securitydecentralization

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