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   "text": "Because members of a decentralized network are assumed relatively equal, evidence of all bureaucratic work must be posted in a universally accessible location for eternal review, and every reputation token needs an openly verifiable history just as digital currency creation does without a central verifying authority.",
   "abstract": "To remain decentralized, all members are assumed to be relatively equal. Therefore, evidence of all bureaucratic work needs to be posted in a universally accessible loca- tion for eternal review.",
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   "text": "In the proposed system the DAO's forum is an on-chain collection of uniquely identified posts that may cite earlier contributions, and this citation structure is what forms the Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph on which the governance model rests.",
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