Toward a Trust Metric for Authority in the RChain Bounty System

Dan Connolly, Feb 2018

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• @AbnerZheng's work on VM primitives (#176):
1. ROS-243: 8 story points; PR121 merged 8 Jan
2. ROS-197: 8 story points; merged Dec 20
• D> Rholang plugin for the IntelliJ Platform #127
• https://github.com/tgrospic/rholang-idea

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translating RChain Architecture documents into Chinese #242

rchain/architecture-docs#12 contributors (grad students):

1. @AbnerZheng add the sphinx international support,�translated "namespace"
2. @linsheng9731 translated 'motivation', 'approach' and 'execution_model/consensus_protocol'
3. @RowlandZhou translated 'introduction'
4. @yyh1102 translated 'index'
5. @rjl493456442 translated ' architecture-overview' and 'storage and query'
6. @yuhuanmocmoc translated 'application' and 'contract-design'

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#162: Moderators are responsible for Channel Etiquette & Guidelines.

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#306 anomalies in the 201801 budget / reward process

#261 slashing conditions in the RAM budgeting and reward system?

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New Approach to Authority?

"Bad money drives out good" -- Gresham's law

If it's easier to tear down than to build up, then the whole system comes down.

And we know that building up, i.e. real contribution, is not easy.

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Trust Metric

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“The goal of the trust metric is to accept as many valid accounts as possible, while also reducing the impact of attackers.” -- Raph Levien, 1999

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Advogato: Computation of network flow

Ford-Fulkerson algorithm

Advogato: Security PRoof

Theorem 1

The number of bad servers chosen by the above metric is bounded by the sum of (c_x - 1) over each of the confused servers x.

Peer Certifications Drive Trust Metric

Certified Open Source Developers

Social Network Simulator

• interactive simulator
• exploring a crowdsourced certification trust metric with svg/javascript animation�Dan Connolly (Wednesday, 14 April 2010) to www-talk
• DanC/socialsim hg source code repository on bitbucket

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Social Network Simulator

• interactive simulator
• exploring a crowdsourced certification trust metric with svg/javascript animation�Dan Connolly (Wednesday, 14 April 2010) to www-talk
• socialsim hg source code repository on bitbucket

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Demo gods smiling?