# Hostile environment

`kaal:entity:hostile-environment`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `hostile-environment`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2018 to 2018.

**2018**

- [3125822-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-009) [condition/argued] -- The platform's ability to function among anonymous and potentially hostile users is conditional: it holds only if smart contracts that engage experts for off-platform work voluntarily include the recommended protocol choices, which the minimal core itself does not require.
  > However, the platform was designed to thrive in an environment with anonymous, potentially hostile users, if the following choices are chosen to be included in all smart contracts which use experts for off-platform work:
  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
- [3125822-048](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-048) [condition/asserted] -- The architecture is built for a hostile open environment containing malicious anonymous actors, and the authors concede it works even better in a centralized system with identified participants where the blockchain and its inefficiencies are unnecessary.
  > The architecture for the platform was created to be effective in a hostile open environment containing malicious anonymous actors. It is more effective in a centralized system with identified participants where the blockchain is not necessary and its inefficiencies can be avoided.
  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

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