Suggestions for names are welcome, but it's probably worth delaying suggestions until my next post, when it will hopefully become more obvious how far reaching the scope of this project is. Merit would

A rating system with such importance placed on it certainly brings up this idea of a "social credit system" which is justifiably troubling to many of us. A simple version could be a "Leo

I don't really trust consensus because most people are ignorants (myself included) This is a fair point, I think: most people are ignorant in many areas of knowledge, in part because the space of knowledge

I guess there's one thing I should make one thing clear at the outset: while this system has some slight relationship to the current reputation system on Hive because I hope to replace that reputation

In many other cases, fictional profiles are created based on individuals. In even more cases, the perpetrator claims to act on behalf of an individual. In the system I'm planning, creation of a convincing

Networking plays a huge role in our reputation and in the rewards we reap for our other actions. It's understandable to some extent, since we can envision the case of a person who solves some tremendously

One of the aspects of this system definitely allows a person to have one or more digital identities, and use that identity to authoritatively take actions that will be respected as coming from a specific

Yes, the ability to have a provable record of historical actions like that provided by blockchains can be very useful in a system that does analysis of web of trust systems. I think this is a wide open

No decision was really made yet on the curation window time yet, as it's just a parameter that can easily be tweaked once the code is written (in other words, it doesn't have to be decided before the code

None of the BlockTrades team is working on marketing activities; that's one area I'd prefer other people take up. However, we're happy to support the efforts of other groups by providing technical information

We're planning to have some form of framework for user-created tokens. Right now I'm leaning towards one based on smart contracts, for maximal flexibility.

Yes, there will be significant differences in implementation. There's no reason they can't coexist, though. There'll just be more options.

Yes, check the link in the 2nd paragraph, it's a roadmap post.

This is a great site, really happy to see it! One small thing is that I noticed that the recently shared is showing only blog posts instead of "posts", so if you're like me and find yourself

Very sorry to hear this, but glad to hear the Hive was returned at least, and hope the BTC will be as well.

I don't really think every curator needs to "catch" every big post at the maximal reward period. For those who are searching for good posts, a two hour window should be enough to find some good

I agree that a reverse-conversion would solve the problem with HBD going above USD, and if that gets to be an issue again, some limited form of that seems like the simple fix (well, other than the HF,

It tends to be my habit to read more than write, because days go by too quickly when I get involved in written discussions. Especially when it comes to complex discussions like design of a stable coin.

Regarding the convergent curve, it doesn't generally seem to be very popular. I've never looked into it much myself (i.e. read the code), but the justification for it always seemed weak. Anyways, when

I haven't answered yet because I'm still thinking through the issue. You may not be aware of it, but ideas have been tossed around for how to improve HBD mechanics for many years now. Making a decision