On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:43 PM, James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> wrote:
> One aspect I have not mentioned: To discover people's reputations, you > use up untrusted IOUs by storing pseudo random gibberish on their systems. > > If you only use trusted IOUs, and never grant services to entities > supplying untrusted IOUs, you will never have enough trust. To generate > trust, needs to be quite a lot low value nonsense faithfully and reliably > stored on the system, a certain substantial amount of wasted activity in > tests of trust and generation of trust. > > The system as I originally described it would deadlock for lack of trust, > and would with perfect efficiency and reliability do absolutely nothing. Eww. There's an easier solution to the bootstrapping problem than just asking people to store garbage: you can add people as friends, and friends will voluntarily participate in your activities on the network. By storing stuff your friends are interested in, you can start accumulating a direct trade history with other peers on the network. To prove to the network they are deceptive Sybils, they can actually become content sherpas for things people are actually interested in, and build up a direct reputation that way. If you consume some content you like, there should be some mechanism whereby you can say you want to devote your resources to propagating it, and thus rather than filling the network with garbage, you can fill it full of duplicate copies of content lots of people are actually interested in. -- Tony Arcieri
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