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Notes on The Pseudonymous Economy – Balaji Srinivasan
via their identity and reputation status.
William Mougayar • The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology
Part of the fun of crypto is the removal of real-world identity from your wallet ID. NFT could enable whistleblowers, journalists, dissidents, and others to receive compensation for their work and be totally outside the reach of any nationstate or corporation. It would be like Wikileaks but with a direct financial incentive.
Sean Blanda • A half-baked idea: NFT for writers
This presents a paradox: if a token can be transferred easily, then those without reputation can simply purchase it, which reduces the token’s ability to serve as a reputation signal.
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems
For pseudonyms to have a value, they need to be underwritten by trusted institutions.
David Birch • Identity is the New Money (Perspectives)
Enabling users to transact without compromising their personal information or entrusting it to powerful corporate intermediaries; and