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  • From: Justin Chapweske <orasis AT acm.cs.umn.edu>
  • To: Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems <bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: distributed immutable namespace
  • Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:50:50 +0000


This is very similar to what mindpixel does. Its cool, check it out:
http://www.mindpixel.com/

>
> The seeds of a solution
> I started to think about whether it would be possible to create a system
> where all the users, while being tested by the system, were actually
> testing each-other too. Each user might be asked to provide an answer to
> a question which will demonstrate their intelligence, to provide a
> question which will test someone elses intelligence, and to give an
> opinion as to the answers given by a number of other people to several
> questions. Failure to do any of these things to the best of their
> ability may result in their submission not being accepted.
>
> Remaining issues
> Of course, there are still many details to be worked out, how can the
> above system be built so as to make abuse impossible? What if a computer
> made so many submissions that it saturated the system, and could
> validate its own submissions as being correct?
> None the less, at least this suggests that a robust think-cash mechanism
> is a possibility. As the threat of malicious attacks on the Internet get
> more and more serious, people may be forced to adopt a mechanism such as
> this.


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