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   "text": "The payment design allows secure off chain payments without gas consumption, with settlement transferred onto the Ethereum blockchain at a later date, which the author claims is superior to the payment channel approach used by decentralized competitors.",
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   "text": "Removing centralized fees produces a more efficient marketplace for workers, verifiers, and requesters alike by eliminating rent seeking intermediaries, leaving gas for posters as the only cost.",
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   "text": "Fully on chain computation of citation weighted PageRank allocation is economically feasible at realistic competition sizes, and is far more tractable in gas terms than the validation pool mechanism of the 2018 framework.",
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