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   "text": "The other horn of the identity verification dilemma is that when reputation is not valuable, honest users will not bother to go through the hoops required to identify themselves securely.",
   "abstract": "If the reputation is not valuable, then you won't be able to get honest users to go through the hoops required to identify themselves securely, since it",
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   "text": "The value of reputation is directly related to how well punishment can be distributed in response to cheating, so a more transparent system produces more accurate and efficient policing and therefore more valuable reputation.",
   "abstract": "Another motivation for transparency is that the value of reputation is directly re- lated to how well punishment can be distributed in response to cheating. The more transparent the system, the more accurate and efficient policing can be.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203",
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   "text": "With the balanced staking and fee-sharing necessities implemented, the cost of faking reputation is at an absolute minimum double the value of that reputation, which is how reputation is made more valuable than money.",
   "abstract": "With #e and #j implemented, the cost of faking your reputation is (at an absolute minimum) double the value of the reputation.",
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   "text": "Reputation-based governance faces a chicken and egg problem: voting becomes more efficient once reputation is valuable, but reputation cannot become valuable without meaningful voting.",
   "abstract": "This is another chicken and egg problem. Voting will be more efficient with valu- able reputation. Reputation can't be valuable without meaningful voting.",
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