Johan Pouwelse

Single Internet-of-Trust: A single long-lived identities with certain reputation in one domain means you exist, transacted honestly in the past, and invested effort. We now envision a mechanism which re-uses...

"Consensus ranking" is a solid step forward for global trust. Spreading individual non-verifiable trust rankings is realistic to implement and deploy. A superior approach would be to have objective and...

Impressive progress

> We crawl blocks from other nodes, we have not observed all those transactions but have to trust that nodes send proper data. Research idea to protect from the [block-withholding](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7728010/)...

> Indirect reciprocity: “I help you, somebody helps me.” > Indirect reciprocity is then the best suited mechanism to foster cooperation. > In contrast to direct reciprocity a node is...

[The Internet is sick](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/mozilla-foundation-report-details-decline-in-health-of-internet/). We need a formula for _Trust and Truth_. Our cure needs to prove itself and work on a large scale. A killer application is needed to...

We now have a basic design which may be implemented in 2019 and deployed to understand the fundamental of engineering online trust. First "coherent framework to transform mutually non-trusting people...

MIT is now also doing some initial work in our domain. Still at the early idea stage and no concrete steps towards implementation and community building. https://www.trust.mit.edu/projects - Open Algorithms...

***Trust is what the Internet [always needed](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/05/21/marc-andreessen-in-20-years-well-talk-about-bitcoin-like-we-talk-about-the-internet-today/), but never had***. We are trying to solve this problem directly and have little competition. Very few team work on this because it...

Problem: Trust is too generic to "_sell_". One of the hard things about getting adoption for ```distributed trust``` is that it is a general societal concept, not a specifically useful...