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I don't understand why someone can't just create hundreds of fake accounts early on in the process and eventually get them trusted. If you are Alice and you cre
by test6554 9y ago
I don't understand why someone can't just create hundreds of fake accounts early on in the process and eventually get them trusted. If you are Alice and you create a real personal account, how do you ever get your account trusted? Couldn't someone just create a fake account and use the same process Alice used to get their fake account trusted?
The potential benefits are huge, double your income if you can pull it of for just one more account.
- lev99 9y agoOn boarding is literally covered in the document. New users have two options. 1. Get their closest friends to trust them, and then build trust from their. 2. Use a well trusted validator. Fake accounts do not really gain any benefit for sitting, other then their account gathers coins. What really matters in making fake accounts is gathering social connections. This whitepaper that the trust connections are a critical part of the system.
- test6554 9y agoIt sounds like a pretty unforgiving system for someone who is a rehabilitated criminal or anyone who fights against popular opinion. You can arbitrarily remove trust and never have to add it back again. You can remove trust as retaliation for anything.