[tahoe-dev] Resurrecting Mojo Nation

[Jack Byer]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do you solve the Sybil problem when determining reputation?
>
> It's easy to forsee a network of Sybils concocting elaborate false histories
> about their excellent trading relationships. They then put out some awesome
> looking contracts, get suckers to accept them, host files for them, never
> pay, and disappear.
>
> Until you have that secure reputation system in place, it's hard to treat
> storage service as a fungible commodity.
>

My initial thought would be to look at how EBay solves the problem.
That's probably the largest example of an in-use reputation system in
the world right now that is known to work. People make a profit
selling products on EBay even though there are people trying to scam
the system so the solution must exist somewhere in their model.

#bitcoin-otc uses GPG to authenticate users so perhaps the web of
trust model could be used for reputation. A network of people all
rating themselves wouldn't necessarily transfer to a high rating for
someone outside that network.