[yinyinwu]

Before Wikipedia, the idea that an openly edited online journal would be better and more accurate alternative to Encyclopedia Brittanica would be surprising to most people.

There's two parts of the design that leads to more accuracy for DIRT:

1. Skin in the game - a token deposit to write encourages accuracy because you can lose the deposit if you are incorrect.

2. Encouraging moderation - moderators can earn tokens. If you vote and challenge correctly, you can earn tokens. This creates an economic reward for moderators that can protects the data accuracy in the long term.

We're posting the whitepaper and more importantly, launching the protocol with a first application in the coming months. Stay tuned!

[TekMol]

    you can lose the deposit if you are incorrect

How would the system know which side is correct and which side is incorrect? From what you wrote so far, it just counts which side put in more money.

[VectorLock]

Either thats the secret sauce that got them $3m with zero openly published work, or the "who is right" is completely hand-waved over or relies on some oracle.

[UncleEntity]

> How would the system know which side is correct and which side is incorrect?

Groupthink, methinks.

Using voting to establish "fact" seems like it could go very, very wrong...