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by SahAssar 1921 days ago
"An Archaeologist is a third-party, disinterested, incentivized service provider. They operate the Archaeologist server, post bonds in SARCO, resurrect files when needed, and are rewarded for good behavior (They are also harshly punished for bad behavior)."

"After spinning up an Archaeologist server, the operator must set their own parameters for minimum digging fees, minimum bounty, and maximum resurrection time. This will allow the Embalmer to see the minimum price in SARCO that an Archaeologist will accept in order to be cursed."

I really don't know if this is real or parody

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There are some very bad analogies used in crypto, but I don't consider this one of them.

The concept of an embalmer makes sense and rewrapping the corpse (payload) in order to keep it from being exposed.

The contract between the embalmer and the archaeologist being called a 'curse' makes sense, too. It signifies that there is a right and a wrong way for the archaeologist to lift that curse.

The only thing that doesn't really make sense is the "recipient", which is where it makes more sense to think of the corpse as a treasure chest where only the recipient has the key to open it, but I guess there's only so far you can force an analogy.

The marketing material is quite good and the explanatory material makes sense to a layman like me. Then again, maybe the bar for crypto marketing material is so low due to all the pump/dump/rug-pull schemes on the market.

Try reading anything that has been modeled using game theory, it's just as bad if not worse.

As an example here (https://i.imgur.com/8Unt5fD.jpg) is a notation table for atomic swaps.