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Auteur: Amir Taaki
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Aan: unsystem
Onderwerp: Re: [unSYSTEM] Reputation
if you want adoption, you pick markets, grow and expand into other
markets. all this talk of widespread adoption sounds like running before
we can walk, and then the inevitable "we need govt help" talk to gain
consumer market access.

On 06/01/2014 03:35 PM, Amir Taaki wrote:
> Appeal to the black market and drug dealers on tor.
> That's your market.
>
> On 06/01/2014 08:23 AM, Alex Kravets wrote:
>> Bitshares people are attempting a fully decentralized solution for
>> strong identities called Keyhotee.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZaTdEtK-8
>>
>> It's a competitor to http://onename.io/ which sits on top of namecoin.
>>
>> It's not clear which one, if any, will see wide adoption.
>>
>> If there is something compelling to make 100 million people switch from
>> gmail then it might happen, if not, these will remain niche systems w/o
>> widespread support or adoption.
>>
>> Cheers ...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Thomas Hartman
>> <thomas@??? <mailto:thomas@standardcrypto.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     It's non trivial.

>>
>>     Key distribution is the hard part, because of MITM attack.

>>
>>     Decentralized approach:  Web of trust works but is hard to use and
>>     therefore hard to bootstrap. (Why no one uses pgp, and even fewer
>>     people use WOT).

>>
>>     https://keybase.io/ is sort of half decentralized hybrid for pgp key
>>     distribution.

>>
>>     If you're ok with centralized there are many approaches, but then you
>>     have single point of failure.

>>
>>     Other interesting things to google/link:

>>
>>     bitid
>>     http://bitcoinism.blogspot.com/2013/09/building-pgp-web-of-trust-that-people.html

>>
>>     various approaches to token authentication for kyc/aml using crypto
>>     currencies (mastercoin/counterparty discussions)

>>
>>     truthcoin

>>
>>
>>     On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Mats-Erik Pistol
>>     <meapistol@??? <mailto:meapistol@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     > Dear all,
>>     >
>>     > There are many applications that need a reputation system.
>>     > Would it not be handy to have a reputation server, probably
>>     connected with a
>>     > public key server?
>>     > Maybe this has been thought of before but I have not really read
>>     about it.

>>     >
>>     > --
>>     > Cheers,
>>     > Mats-Erik

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>> -- 
>> Alex Kravets <http://www.linkedin.com/in/akravets>       def redPill =
>> 'Scala <http://www.scala-lang.org/>
>> [[ brutal honesty <http://goo.gl/vwydt> is the best policy ]]

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