>1. How can I confirm that you've done the computation? The same problem applies to things like Mechanical Turk and other croudsourcing. The way I've dealt wit

>1. How can I confirm that you've done the computation? The same problem applies to things like Mechanical Turk and other croudsourcing. The way I've dealt with the issue in the past is to start with zero trust and to have them do computations that I already know the answer to. After that, they do computations that are matched with a random other participant (the two results should match, if they don't, compare against a third random participant). Later, when trust has been developed, you can start assuming their work work is trustworthy, but still check it randomly with computations you know the answer to, or a second person doing the same computation. Yes, this adds overhead (roughly 10% in aggregate) but it works fairly well. It works even better if there are penalties that you can impose for ffraudulent results (like cancelling ALL owed payouts).