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by TekMol 2903 days ago 

    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.
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VectorLock 2903 days ago
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.
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UncleEntity 2903 days ago
> 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...

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