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   "text": "Similar business deals and contracts between counterparties must be organized and reviewable by the public, and the transaction history has to be fully openly viewable and verifiable so that parties can see that counterparties will perform as expected.",
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   "text": "A functioning decentralized reputation system requires that counterparties' actions in decentralized commerce endure and become part of a public record: their actions must stick and become part of a meaningful precedence system.",
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   "text": "Increasing counterparty trust in decentralized commerce requires that the full history of transactions be openly viewable and verifiable, so that counterparties' actions endure as part of a public record and a meaningful precedence system.",
   "abstract": "The history of transactions has to be fully openly viewable and verifiable, so that business parties can see that their counterparties will perform as expected.",
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