Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality
Adam Shostack
adam at homeport.org
Fri Nov 30 12:47:54 PST 2001
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:14:13PM -0800, Wei Dai wrote:
| On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:53:02PM -0800, georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:
| > Even this is not a scalar. Since reputation cannot be bought
| > and sold, the idea that it is worth a specific well defined amount is
| > false.
|
| If you own a nym, you can easily sell its reputation. Just give the
| private key to the buyer.
How does the buyer ensure that I haven't kept a copy? If what I'm
selling is a nym, then without the nym, I am anonymous. Adding layers
of nymity for reputation with partial disclosure seems a complex and
failure-prone approach.
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
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