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Respectonomy is a decentralized, self-moderated social network system that gives the user the freedom to share their thoughts without the fear of censorship while rewarding them for it. Though modern social networks provide a platform for free information exchange, it is just an illusion of freedom as some sort of moderation or censorship is often used. This project aims to assign value to data, measuring the quality of inherent information, and to provide a mechanism for fairly compensating data bandwidth availability.

Respectonomy will be an open-source, browser based implementation, that utilizes the Bittorrent protocol for content sharing and a proof of work blockchain to determine the value of the RESPECT token that runs the system. Being an independent token, unlike colored coins, the PoW blockchain system that Respectonomy flows on, represents a closed network with dynamic membership of parties, and this determines its true value in a free-market.

Our system makes use of the RESPECT token that can be used by the users to vote for the content that they deem to be of a superior quality. This ensures that the content is reviewed algorithmically by the network and not determined by the reputation of any user. The value of the content is now based solely on the value of the token which is determined and fairly distributed by a proof of work blockchain. This prevents the branding of any user as a good content creator while at the same time discourages ads, spam and trolls.

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Bounties have ended. Thank you for your participation
Process to claim bounty reward will be updated soon

ICO Date has been decided.
Our ICO will launch on February 1st, 2017

Announcement of the same will be done shortly. Link will be posted here

Yes definitely. As soon as there are any updates, we will update on social media and via the newsletter.
You can also sign up for our newsletter on the website.

Maybe you haven't read any of the above comments, PRE-ANN or Whitepaper. You cannot call us a scam without any base for such an accusation. You and many others like you may have been scammed in the past. Please give us a chance to show that we are genuine and trying to make a difference in a place where everyone feels that new projects with ICOs are a scam.

If you have any questions about our project feel free to ask, we will try our best to answer your queries.


PS. I noticed that all your posts have a similar theme.
Just FYI, Such kind of sockpuppet accounts will starve from lack of readers on Respectonomy  

ICO will be announced in another post on this forum. Link to the announcement will be posted here

Trying to implement a node server that does this. Is it possible to do it with node js?

Karma Token, Karma Koin, and Karma Coin are different projects.
We were KARMA PLATFORM NOT Karma Token, Karma Koin, or Karma Coin. It was never announced as an altcoin. The image put up by James_H (https://i.imgur.com/ZBvmAlO.png) is of KARMA PLATFORM and has no connection whatsoever with the above mentioned projects.
Due to the multiple projects with similar names, we rebranded KARMA PLATFORM to RESPECTONOMY

Yes. This project was initially Karma Platform. Due to multiple projects having a similar name, to avoid confusion we rebranded to Respectonomy

The open-source pool software will be released on testnet launch.
The Wallet is in the browser and independent of platform.

Both Steemit and Respectonomy are systems that aim to decentralize various aspects of publishing.
If we look at the data storage aspect, firstly, steem stores text data on the blockchain which is not optimal or scalable as fee analysis reveals, and secondly, steem distributes the content discovery by creating DHTs as per the bitorrent protocol, whereas respectonomy offloads the problem of controversial content to the discovery problem. Thus controversial content remains hosted on its isolated sub-network and someone has to discover it and willingly download it by paying for it. This is also necessary because what is controversial for a majority might be necessary for a minority. To pay for all this, a user's device running the website mines just enough ‘respect’ under the hood such that its expenditure introduces a built-in latency that does not affect humans but charges the bots to tap the firehose.



Yes it is a new technology. more questions are welcome

From what I can understand of your question...........

New coins will be generated by the users device just in enough amount so as to make the experience seamless for humans but introduces a latency for bots, which they may bypass by paying you for reading your data

I'm glad you liked the whitepaper. This is only the first draft. We will be updating it with more details.

Yes, the content will be stored on everyone's device. Just that instead of like an address, they'd be stored like hashes are stored on the bitcoin's blockchain.

The current white paper is only an initial draft. We will be updating the whitepaper shortly.

The difficulty will be calculated as the moving average of the previous 2016 blocks. So to answer your question, the difficulty will be retargetted every block.

Systems like LBRY, Decent, JoyStream use bittorrent protocols to distribute content to be hosted by the users & lets others charge for it. Although this is better than storing data on the blockchain, yet still run into storage issues over time. But an even bigger problem in such systems is determining the price that must be paid for a content.



Respectonomy modifies the bittorrent protocol to only host content with users that endorse it; when users ‘share’ a content they become a seed in a sub-network of only those respectonomy users that have shared that content. Thus, only the supporters of a content bear the burden for hosting it.

While downloading from someone, a user can see descriptions to other files that the uploaders might be hosting and thus this sub-network also acts as recommendation engine by measuring the frequency & nearness of other data, and because content downloading is paid for, the seeds act as curators. The ‘shared’ content then becomes a locally hosted curated list which the users earn from by hosting. To fairly determine the price for such exchange respectonomy deploys its own blockchain where the flow of the token ‘respect’ dynamically determines the value of content exchange. This mechanism of tracking data in an isolated network helps fight censorship by replicating the data globally & data being available until anyone in the world is willing to host it.

When users like a content, they pay ‘respect’ to the oldest record of that content in the blockchain. Since pirated content will have a different record it becomes a problem. If we aim to solve it using some algorithm, even a bit of information changed in a file changes its records but it could either mean piracy or creation of new content – for example changing a single character in a code could mean new code.

The original content creator can assign special benefits to community for this effort & since everything happens through transactions, for example - it is an immutable record of people who bought your song. The transactions sending money to the address associated with that content’s fingerprint then can have special use-cases such as access to a concert. Money sent to pirated copies will not have this benefit whereas the downloader would also have spent equivalent amount for it. This mechanism drives the price based on rarity of content.

Respectonomy Whitepaper is out!!
OP has been updated with the link. You can read it here.

According to the LBRY website - If you read this PRE ANN correctly, Respectonomy is a Decentralized social network. I don't see how a Decentralized social network is the same as a digital media library. The accounts of the devs are newbies because we are new to this forum and it takes some time to increase activity.

I don't see any rules written anywhere which says that newbies aren't allowed to develop altcoins of their own. We are currently in the process of releasing our white paper (which apparently lbry doesn't seem to have one) and finalizing details for the ICO. After reading our whitepaper if you still feel we are a scam, we would be disappointed to lose you as an investor.

This is the reason why Respectonomy was born. Tracking, advertisements, spam, trolls, and censorship have grown exponentially in the past decade. We wanted a platform that eliminates all these unwanted content.

That's exactly what i'm intending to do. I shall check out the services board. Thanks for the help