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   "text": "Smart contracts give insurance against an unfair settlement only under stated conditions, among them that anonymous arbiters are chosen randomly with weight given by their availability stakes and that arbiters must post evidence of work for evaluation by the forum.",
   "abstract": "Further, smart contracts written as suggested above give insurance an unfair settlement will never occur if 1) anonymous arbiters are randomly chosen according to the weight of their availability stakes, 2) arbiters are required to post evidence-of-work posts for evaluation by the forum",
   "citation": "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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   "text": "SPoS avoids the delegate centralization of DPoS, where block production concentrates among a small elected set, by distributing block production opportunities across validators in proportion to both reputation and stake.",
   "abstract": "Unlike DPoS, which centralizes block production among a small set of delegates (e.g., 21 in EOS), SPoS balances fairness and randomness by distributing opportunities across validators proportionally to their reputation and stake",
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