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<span id="mailbox-conversation"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brennan: Stack Overflow is incredibly successful at getting very knowledgable people to spend vast amounts of time answering random questions. This is 'real . . . resources'. I don't think it's a particularly good thing that people are irrational, but they are... (And there's a problem with blockchains that monetary rewards worsen: concentration of production. Good economic sense, bad for anonymity.)</span></div>
<div><br></div>Tom: I really like the idea of gamification. I think that something that's key is creating a sufficiently low barrier to entry -- and 'rewards' -- that it's as easy to 'play' as it is to download an iPhone game...<div><br></div>
<div>(Part of this is also anticipating what will be done to penalize participants. E.g., the early, well-publicized raids on Tor exit nodes succesfully created the perception that it's dangerous to operate one.)<div>
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<div>One interesting 'experiment', kind of in this area, is the RIPEstat internet topology project; howbeit aimed at a very geeky audience. You earn 'points', there are leaderboards, etc. (The points can be 'spent' on conducting network measurements, but very few people seem to *use* the points they earn.) Here's how it works:</div>
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<div>1. Fill out a web form.</div>
<div>2. Get a package with a little TP-LINK router.</div>
<div>(Wait for it to arrive from Amsterdam, get through 'Customs'.)</div>
<div>3. Plug it into your network. </div>
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<div>4. Earn points.</div>
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<div>(And people all over the US have these plugged into their home and work networks!)</div></span><br><br><span class="mailbox-reply"><div id="orc-email-signature" style="display: block;"><br></div>
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<br><span id="orc-full-body-initial-text" style="display: inline;">On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Brennan Mailpile<<a href="mailto:hi@bnvk.me" target="_blank">hi@bnvk.me</a>>, wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote">
<br>I'm a big fan of the *Coin approach. A few blockchain types came to the
<br>Tor developer conference in Iceland back in March preaching about the
<br>DAO (decentralized autonomous organizations) and setting up Tor nodes
<br>for compensation.
<br><br>While I really like gamification when done tastefully & well, it's
<br>always stretched a bit IMHO when used to reward people spending real
<br>dollars or resources and getting a shiny sticker in return. That's why
<br>these *Coin approaches are interesting as they usually can be traded for
<br>real world dollars once they reach a critical mass.
<br><br>I would love to see + pay to send my messages through an anonymous
<br>remailer based on a
<br>blockchain reward system! Hopefully someone will build one :)_______________________________________________
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