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   "text": "Reputation value in any decentralized reputational system can be corrupted through three channels: direct purchase of reputation, automated worthless work, and degeneration of the system into a majority of inexpert opinions.",
   "abstract": "In any such decentralized reputational system there is always the potential to corrupt the value of reputation by purchasing it directly, or through automated worthless work, or through the degeneration of a majority of inexpert opinions.",
   "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": "The problems of corruption, Sybil attacks, and tyranny of the majority have plagued every previous autonomous decentralized reputation platform, so they are the design constraints any new architecture must meet.",
   "abstract": "These are the respective problems of corruption, Sybil attacks, and tyranny of the majority that have plagued all previous autonomous, decentralized reputation platforms.",
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