Thanks for the suggestions! I’m not sure if you meant “less like money” or “less like play”. In my head, we actually do want these to be money-like (valuable, transferable, fungible, etc), but less “play”, which is why we’re exploring fiat and crypto off-ramps.
Right now we require Google accounts, which is another weak form of KYC! KYC helps solve the problem of unique human users so we users don’t fradulently take advantage of our sign up bonuses; in the crypto world we might use something like Proof of Humanity for this purpose.
Incentivizing activity (eg login bonus, awarding people for spending time) is also something we’ve considered; these help make the overall system more valuable (since markets are networks that benefit from activity), but don’t help with the “play money” problem as much afaict.
We haven’t thought through the PoH thing too much—honestly, you probably know much more about it than we do!
I like the way LessWrong voting is set up a lot; I’ve actually wondered about a prediction-market mapping system where upvotes = betting that a particular comment will be frontpaged/featured/chosen by mods for quality, and downvotes would be a bet in the other direction. It’d be a cool experiment, though maybe fairly intensive to run.
Thanks for the suggestions! I’m not sure if you meant “less like money” or “less like play”. In my head, we actually do want these to be money-like (valuable, transferable, fungible, etc), but less “play”, which is why we’re exploring fiat and crypto off-ramps.
Right now we require Google accounts, which is another weak form of KYC! KYC helps solve the problem of unique human users so we users don’t fradulently take advantage of our sign up bonuses; in the crypto world we might use something like Proof of Humanity for this purpose.
Incentivizing activity (eg login bonus, awarding people for spending time) is also something we’ve considered; these help make the overall system more valuable (since markets are networks that benefit from activity), but don’t help with the “play money” problem as much afaict.
We haven’t thought through the PoH thing too much—honestly, you probably know much more about it than we do!
I like the way LessWrong voting is set up a lot; I’ve actually wondered about a prediction-market mapping system where upvotes = betting that a particular comment will be frontpaged/featured/chosen by mods for quality, and downvotes would be a bet in the other direction. It’d be a cool experiment, though maybe fairly intensive to run.