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   "text": "Smart contracts give insurance against an unfair settlement only under stated conditions, among them that anonymous arbiters are chosen randomly with weight given by their availability stakes and that arbiters must post evidence of work for evaluation by the forum.",
   "abstract": "Further, smart contracts written as suggested above give insurance an unfair settlement will never occur if 1) anonymous arbiters are randomly chosen according to the weight of their availability stakes, 2) arbiters are required to post evidence-of-work posts for evaluation by the forum",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822",
   "datePublished": "2018",
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   "text": "Producing a bad block is punished by slashing, since the producer loses the availability stakes they posted to be considered in the random selection of block producers.",
   "abstract": "Producing bad blocks is slashed because the bad block producer will lose their availability stakes (the tokens the producer staked to be considered for the random selection of block producers) in the validation pool.",
   "citation": "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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