Hey there Caleb,

I think you might be looking for something like this:

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/document-coin/

Bear in mind that the creator is treating it more as an art project. I
don't think that makes it any less interesting, or relevant to your
specific question.

I am myself very interested in the topic as well. In my PhD research I am
looking for insights on how to do this by ovserving and trying to learn
from Buddhist communities in Thailand. The buddhist concept of 'karma', a
term ofted used as a surrogate index for reputation by ICT platform
developers (Reddit, /., Hacker News, etc), is fascinating. It works in
actual Buddhist communities as a sort of decentralised currency that anyone
can mine, needs no technological arifacts, and is impossible to hack. And
-most importantly- puts the incentives in the right place, since it can
only be mined by acting in ways that benefit the self and the others.

This connects with your question about reputation because while in ICT
platforms like Reddit 'karma' is a lot like 'reputation', leading to
exploits, reposts, and karmawhoring in general, improving karma in a
buddhist community leads to a good reputation as a byproduct. The focus is
on legitimate good, improvements achieved (and/or intended) for the self or
for the community.

As an experiment, and an art project (like the one linked above), I am
myself proposing a simple combination of these ideas and crypto. The
currency I propose is called CallMomCoin, and it is mined simply by calling
mom on the phone (each user mines their coins by calling their specific
mom). Calling mom is (i assume) universally acceptable as a good thing that
we sholud all do more often, so it is a good way to illustrate the 'mining
by making good' concept. Of course, this is serious in some levels, but it
does have a sense of humour about itself.

I uploaded a short text describing the idea to www.callmomcoin.org,
recently. At the moment there is nothing elsein the site than the text,
which you might find interesting. I am starting working on this with a
programmmer at my university in Hong Kong, but at this point there is
really nothing else than the idea.

With this post I don't mean to hijack the conversation you have started
about reputation, which i think is key, but to bring into it some aspects
of the topic I think are important.

Cheers,

Nicolas M


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Josh Walker <josh@???> wrote:

> L-like Stellar and Ripple?
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 20, 2014, Caleb James DeLisle <cjd@???> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> Does anybody know if there are any projects to do reputation based
>> currency?
>> It strikes me that the exchange of current-day-money and physical goods --
>> "I give to you, you have, I don't have anymore" -- does not fit the
>> exchange of
>> digital goods where "I give to you, now we both have".
>>
>> A reputation based coin might be more fit to gift transactions than,
>> for example, flattr, since I don't lose anything by contributing...
>>
>> Are there any projects like this in the works?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Caleb
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PhD Researcher
School of Creative Media
City University of Hong Kong
China PDR - HKSAR