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Sockpuppet attack
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying sockpuppet-attack. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3782203-035 : A DAO permitting anonymous membership is exposed to a sockpuppet attack in which one account behaves honestly while another cheats, and if the cheating account can funnel its gains to the honest accou
- 3782203-036 : Paying contributors in reputation tokens rather than fees, and then distributing all fees as a periodic reputation weighted salary, defeats the sockpuppet attack because splitting a holding across man
- 3782210-008 : A Web of Trust style reputation ledger, in which each party rates each transaction and reputation is summed with weightings by rater reputation, will have all of its value drained by the sockpuppet at
- 3782210-009 : Charging transaction fees or imposing KYC identity protocols does not solve the sockpuppet problem: such defenses push the cost of defending the network onto users, and the defense cost equals what it
- 3782210-018 : Distributing salary equitably, for example equally to all members, is self-defeating: the obvious gaming strategy becomes creating multiple accounts and distributing one's work between them, which is
- 3782210-025 : Sockpuppet attacks are inevitable in any organization that wants open membership and anonymous members, and since those properties are essential to the autonomy that makes a global decentralized organ
- 3782210-026 : Every single reputational implementation the authors have audited in the blockchain DAO space carries the flaw of vulnerability to the sockpuppet attack on the Web of Trust model.
- 3782210-027 : SingularityNet's reputation system, which tracks self-reported transaction quality, transaction value, duration of satisfaction, and prior reputation weights, will have its value eroded by the sockpup
- 3782210-028 : 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 val
- 3799320-039 : Reputation weighted salary distribution solves the sockpuppet attack, because a member who creates ten accounts holding one reputation token each ends up in the same position as one account holding te