# Malicious actors

`kaal:entity:malicious-actors`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `malicious-actors`. 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

3 claims across 1 works, 2018 to 2018.

**2018**

- [3128900-024](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-024) [mechanism/argued] -- Staking creates disincentives for malicious actors, and it is this disincentive structure that makes the network both more efficient and attack resistant.
  > Semada staking mechanism creates disincentives for malicious actors, enhancing the efficiency of the Semada Network and making it attack resistant.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900
- [3128900-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-037) [design/argued] -- Attack resistance should be designed to increase as the platform grows, in contrast to designs like GEMS that detect and ban malicious actors, because a self enforcement mechanism lets the incentive system steer users away from bad actors once the system matures.
  > Unlike GEMS, which bans malicious actors detected through the GEMS trust mechanism from the platform, the Semada platform has a self-enforcement mechanism.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900
- [3128900-045](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-045) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Centralized platforms cannot simply drop identity verification, because they need it to keep malicious actors from abusing the network and to ensure work quality; this is the tradeoff a staking based design is meant to dissolve.
  > However, centralized micro task platforms need to verify identity to prevent malicious actors from abusing the network and ensure work quality.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

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