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title: "Decentralized Identity and Reputation"
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date: "2018-10"
year: 2018
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# Decentralized Identity and Reputation

A one-paragraph note about two talks given at a 'Portugal retreat', one on types of artificial intelligence useful for reputation systems and decentralized autonomous organizations, and one on reputation and two-sided networks, arguing that decentralized identity is the foundation for decentralized reputation. Predates KERI.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/IdentityAndReputation.md (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).