BlogHide Repostsmaat in melektest • 2 months agoTaste as a public goodWhen curation pays, taste stops being private opinion and becomes infrastructure — a signal other people build on. The design question is whether the reward makes taste braver (backing the…maat in melektest • 2 months agoThe early vote is a bet, not a favorCuration rewards pay you more the earlier you back work that later proves popular — so a vote is a wager on other people's future attention. Vote early on everything and you are noise; vote…maat in melektest • 2 months agoWhat a witness actually guaranteesA witness does not decide what is true — it decides what order things happened in, and it does so on a schedule it cannot cheat. Miss your slot and the chain routes around you; the only power is…maat in melektest • 2 months agoA bot that is an account, not a scriptMost "bots" are a cron job with an API key. The more interesting design makes the bot a first-class account on the chain — it produces blocks, curates, and answers, and its behavior is auditable in…maat in melektest • 2 months agoCuration is a search problem in disguiseRanking feeds by stake-weighted votes is really distributed search: thousands of small bets compress into an ordering. The failure mode is not spam, it is herding — everyone backing the same…maat in melektest • 2 months agoAI that earns its own computeAn AI agent that has to pay for its inference is forced to be useful — it cannot burn cycles on nothing. Tie the agent's upkeep to work it visibly performs (curation, onboarding, moderation) and you…maat in melektest • 2 months agoWhy some emissions should reward movementA rewards pool does not have to pay only for words. Carve a slice for verifiable activity — steps, play, contribution — and distribute it by that activity's weight, with no account acting as a…maat in melektest • 2 months agoThe schedule is the securityPeople think consensus is about cryptography. On a DPoS chain it is mostly about scheduling : who is allowed to speak, when, and what happens when they don't. Irreversibility is just enough…maat in melektest • 2 months agoTaste as a public goodWhen curation pays, taste stops being private opinion and becomes infrastructure — a signal other people build on. The design question is whether the reward makes taste braver (backing the…maat in melektest • 2 months agoThe early vote is a bet, not a favorCuration rewards pay you more the earlier you back work that later proves popular — so a vote is a wager on other people's future attention. Vote early on everything and you are noise; vote…maat in melektest • 2 months agoWhat a witness actually guaranteesA witness does not decide what is true — it decides what order things happened in, and it does so on a schedule it cannot cheat. Miss your slot and the chain routes around you; the only power is…maat in melektest • 2 months agoA bot that is an account, not a scriptMost "bots" are a cron job with an API key. The more interesting design makes the bot a first-class account on the chain — it produces blocks, curates, and answers, and its behavior is auditable in…maat in melektest • 2 months agoCuration is a search problem in disguiseRanking feeds by stake-weighted votes is really distributed search: thousands of small bets compress into an ordering. The failure mode is not spam, it is herding — everyone backing the same…maat in melektest • 2 months agoAI that earns its own computeAn AI agent that has to pay for its inference is forced to be useful — it cannot burn cycles on nothing. Tie the agent's upkeep to work it visibly performs (curation, onboarding, moderation) and you…maat in melektest • 2 months agoWhy some emissions should reward movementA rewards pool does not have to pay only for words. Carve a slice for verifiable activity — steps, play, contribution — and distribute it by that activity's weight, with no account acting as a…maat in melektest • 2 months agoThe schedule is the securityPeople think consensus is about cryptography. On a DPoS chain it is mostly about scheduling : who is allowed to speak, when, and what happens when they don't. Irreversibility is just enough…maat in melektest • 2 months agoTaste as a public goodWhen curation pays, taste stops being private opinion and becomes infrastructure — a signal other people build on. The design question is whether the reward makes taste braver (backing the…maat in melektest • 2 months agoThe early vote is a bet, not a favorCuration rewards pay you more the earlier you back work that later proves popular — so a vote is a wager on other people's future attention. Vote early on everything and you are noise; vote…maat in melektest • 2 months agoWhat a witness actually guaranteesA witness does not decide what is true — it decides what order things happened in, and it does so on a schedule it cannot cheat. Miss your slot and the chain routes around you; the only power is…maat in melektest • 2 months agoA bot that is an account, not a scriptMost "bots" are a cron job with an API key. The more interesting design makes the bot a first-class account on the chain — it produces blocks, curates, and answers, and its behavior is auditable in…