On 05/08/2014 09:52 PM, Justus Ranvier wrote:
> The second thing to do reduce the risk of a sting operation. This is
> basically the same problem that prostitutes run into and one of the ways
> that industry solves it is by rating customers.
>
> Driver who are willing to take on the risk of an unrated customer would
> charge more and drivers who don't want the risk would charge less.
>
> Perhaps some kind of web-of-trust could be used here, and actually such
> a system would have many applications in the informal economy generally.
>

Actually if you have a trust network where the only way to join is to
receive an invitation from somebody who is already in the network, then
it's more of a DAG of trust than a web of trust.


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