# Buffalo Network Nature2.0 hackathon synergy

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/buffalo-network-nature2-0-hackathon-synergy/71>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [April 13, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/buffalo-network-nature2-0-hackathon-synergy/71 "2019-04-13T15:11:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![buffalonetwork](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/buffalonetwork/32/49_2.png) [@buffalonetwork](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/buffalonetwork)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/buffalo-network-nature2-0-hackathon-synergy/71/1 "2019-04-13T15:11:44Z")

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Hey Sourcecred, cheers from Buffalo team right behind you.

In short, we are building a commons to shift from an individual ownership model towards an access model. To make such a model viable we need to ensure that contributions to the commons exceed usage. This is where sourcecred may be a plug and play infrastructure for this use case. Could be interesting. I would like to mark it as a next step in the “3 year plan” and having a chat during the hackathon would be cool

best, vince

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**Author:** ![s\_ben](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/s_ben/32/816_2.png) [@s\_ben](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/s_ben)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/buffalo-network-nature2-0-hackathon-synergy/71/2 "2020-02-01T19:12:51Z")

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Interesting. Reminds me of that famous paper on how some Bittorrent sites were able to pull this off and become sustainable financially.

[http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~hq/papers/dime.pdf](http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~hq/papers/dime.pdf)

SourceCred can definitely create robust measurements of who created value. Though measuring usage is still more of an open question. Plan is to eventually flow Grain to software dependencies in OSS projects.