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SourceCred governance

Not to bikeshed (please don’t reply to this if you think it is or you’ll give me cred), but what is SoureCred’s position on governance? I know that seems like a tomorrow problem. But if this is going to direct money (the end game), it’s going to be political. The most succinct definition of politics I ever heard was “how to decide how to spend the money”. In any SourceCred instance, the parameters choices will always be value judgements, whether subjective or objective (“All Models Are Wrong But…

SourceCred as Store-of-Community Value (SoCV)

SourceCred is, in a literal sense, Proof-of-Work (POW). What would happen if we just applied the Bitcoin blockchain algorithm (proven game theory) to SourceCred, swapping out mining for contributions? A thought exercise. Bitcoin miners get paid according to the computing power they supply to secure the network, as measured by the number blocks found (a proxy for computing power). SourceCred contributors get paid according to the contributions they make, as measured by cred scores (a proxy for h…

A Living History of SourceCred

What follows is a history of SourceCred (so far). This post is a wiki, and is intended to act as a living document. Everyone is invited to add more information to the history. Discourse is not paper, so we don’t have to worry about running out of space. Feel free to add yourself and others to the history! Prelude (2015-2018) For many years, @decentralion had been thinking about using PageRank reputation networks to improve legibility and trust in the context of society. Also for many years, @…