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drinian on Feb 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Steps Down

Are you familiar with Whuffie, which was a fictional reputational currency?

I'm pretty sure that with the advent of decentralized currencies like BitCoin, we could probably implement Whuffie now.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Whuffie

Natsu on March 1, 2011 [–]

Haven't we already done something like that, in a sense, with HN karma?

drinian on March 1, 2011 | [–]

Absolutely, the concept is nothing new. The difference would be decentralization and generalization.

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