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by 0x6461188A 803 days ago
How do you know people are entering pricing info honestly? How do I trust anonymous respondents?
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It looks like you can trade insights for an unlimited account, so I'm assuming they actually vet your claims, e.g. ask for identifying information on who you are and what your company is, and ask to see evidence e.g. invoices, contracts. I mean, that's how I'd do it if I was wanting to build a platform with trustworthy, essentially canonical pricing lists, and charging a couple hundred bucks a year for people to see that info.
Probably against document disclosure rules of any competent medium to large company.
You can make sure people who sign up use their company email. If they are found to add wrong information you can block their account.

You can also give companies an opportunity to reply to a post.

> If they are found to add wrong information you can block their account.

How would you prove that a submission is not truthful? You can check if it's an outlier but that's definitely not foolproof.

interesting that this and Blind dont seem to use zero knowledge proofs when the need for provable knowledge w/ privacy would seem super useful
Related to that, I know that the SINE foundation[0] has been investigating using zero knowledge proofs for benchmarking.

I also looks like they recently released a tool concretely to allow for privacy preserving benchmarking[1]. (I haven't looked into the the contents of the repo itself to check whether they are actually using zero knowledge proofs).

[0]: https://sine.foundation

[1]: https://github.com/sine-fdn/sine-benchmark

Not OP, but I suspect they wait until they have lots of quotes from different sources and then pick the median.