Trading reputation is broken:deleted losses, fake gurus — how can we fix it?

[Alpen]

If someone is a serious blogger, trader, economist, journalist or politician, users should be able to look at their real history and decide for themselves whether they trust that person. And people who create honest content over time should be able to build a reputation that cannot simply be erased, rewritten or manipulated later.

Mistakes are not the problem.

Fake perfection is the problem.

Serious bloggers and journalists don't publish definitive predictions in the first place. They always present two options—a bullish and a bearish scenario. Because of that, your whole concept is essentially useless.

[fibonacciopstan]

Being a fake guru is a really profitable business, nowadays a lot of people are trying to share their success and make their own e-book how to become a success like them, social media platforms are optimized for aesthetics, not accuracy. In a system where you can delete your mistakes, performance art beats real performance every single day.

This is an exceptional diagnosis of the 'Fake Guru' epidemic. The fundamental flaw with modern social platforms is that they allow users to curate the past to exploit the present. By letting people delete their losses, standard social networks turn reputation into a marketing metric rather than a performance metric.

So the GURU share Screenshoot or their success gather lot of people do some magic and then left and the cycle is repeat

Exactly. Modern social platforms are built for attention, not for truth.

A fake guru can show beautiful screenshots, delete bad calls, hide failed predictions, rewrite the past, and keep only the successful-looking part of the story. Then new people come, trust the image, lose money, and the same cycle repeats again.

This is why I believe Opstan is a real solution to this problem.

In Opstan, public posts are stored in a Proof-of-Work blockchain. If someone publishes trading ideas, market analysis, forecasts, opinions, or public claims, that history stays there. It cannot simply be cleaned later to create a fake reputation.

So reputation becomes based on history, not aesthetics. Not on luxury photos, fake withdrawals, edited screenshots, or paid marketing — but on a public record that people can verify.

And this idea is not only for trading. It can be useful for crypto, journalism, politics, economics, research, public predictions, and any field where trust and reputation matter.

Website: https://opstan.org
Explorer: https://opstan.org/blocks.html
GitHub: https://github.com/OpstanGit/opstan

[goldkingcoiner]

As far as I know, Tradingview has a immutable system something similar to what you are describing. If you make a prediction and chart out your TA analysis, you only have a short amount of minutes to change it. After that, you cannot change or delete your charts. So everyone can see whether your analysis panned out or not. But even there I would not trust any Gurus no matter how often they are correct. Best thing to do is learn TA/FA for yourself and improve your own skills/knowledge with time.

Gurus and other influencers are always only after one thing: monetizing their crowd. And they do not care of their fans lose money or not or even if they get tricked. Gurus are not trustworthy. They will lie.

[fibonacciopstan]

If someone is a serious blogger, trader, economist, journalist or politician, users should be able to look at their real history and decide for themselves whether they trust that person. And people who create honest content over time should be able to build a reputation that cannot simply be erased, rewritten or manipulated later.

Mistakes are not the problem.

Fake perfection is the problem.

Serious bloggers and journalists don't publish definitive predictions in the first place. They always present two options—a bullish and a bearish scenario. Because of that, your whole concept is essentially useless.

I don’t fully agree. Serious bloggers and journalists may present both bullish and bearish scenarios, yes. But over time, their public conclusions, risk levels, preferred scenarios, timing, and reasoning still create a measurable history.

The point is not that every post must be a simple “price will go up” or “price will go down.” The point is that a person’s full public record stays visible.

If someone writes analysis for years, people can later check:

Did he usually understand the market correctly?
Did his main scenarios play out more often than not?
Did he warn about risks before they happened?
Did he change his opinion honestly, or only after the fact?
Did he delete mistakes and keep only successful posts?

This is where Opstan has value.

In Opstan, public posts are stored in a Proof-of-Work blockchain and protected by miners. Your history is not just a social media feed that can be cleaned later. It becomes part of your public reputation.

If an analyst has 80–90% strong and accurate calls over several years, that history will remain visible. If someone is constantly wrong, that will also remain visible. And that is exactly the point: reputation should be earned by a long public record, not by deleting old mistakes and marketing yourself as a guru.

Opstan does not force people to make blind predictions. It gives serious analysts, journalists, bloggers, and researchers a place where their public history can stay protected for years.

[fibonacciopstan]

As far as I know, Tradingview has a immutable system something similar to what you are describing. If you make a prediction and chart out your TA analysis, you only have a short amount of minutes to change it. After that, you cannot change or delete your charts. So everyone can see whether your analysis panned out or not. But even there I would not trust any Gurus no matter how often they are correct. Best thing to do is learn TA/FA for yourself and improve your own skills/knowledge with time.

Gurus and other influencers are always only after one thing: monetizing their crowd. And they do not care of their fans lose money or not or even if they get tricked. Gurus are not trustworthy. They will lie.

I agree that people should not blindly trust gurus. The best thing is always to learn TA/FA, build your own understanding, and make your own decisions.

But I think Opstan is different from platforms like TradingView in one very important way.

TradingView may have some immutable publishing features, but it is still a centralized platform. The data, accounts, rules, visibility, bans, and access are controlled by one company and its servers.

Opstan is built differently. It is a Proof-of-Work blockchain, closer in philosophy to Bitcoin. But instead of only storing financial transactions, Opstan can also store public messages, posts, forecasts, opinions, channels, and social reputation directly in the blockchain.

So it is not only about crypto charts or trading ideas. It can be used for trading, journalism, economics, politics, research, public predictions, investigations, blogs, and any field where public history matters.

I agree that gurus can lie. Opstan does not make people magically honest. But it makes their public history harder to erase, rewrite, hide, or fake — and it does this without depending on central servers. That is the main difference.

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Another thing I say: actually sharing just the tip is not enough. Constant unit management and size of trade, against bankroll, more important. What's the point of stats like 90+% win rate when units is all that matter in the end.

I agree with you here.

A transparent tip alone is not enough. A prediction without context is almost meaningless. Win rate can look beautiful on paper, but if the position sizing is irresponsible, the bankroll management is bad, or the risk/reward is terrible, then the whole “90% win rate” story becomes just marketing.
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The real value is in the full history, the risk approach, the discipline, and the transparency behind it.

Yes, yes and yes. And I can tell you there's no tipster or signal channel I ever been in that showed all this. And its up to the follower to see this for themselves and make the right judgment call.

But if you spot a traders that just taking advantage of their and followers, expect that they are always  lying = there are LOT of them like this.
Some may not agree because for example - they will say, "Why they are still sharing it if they are already making good enough money?".

Actually, assume this first. As this is the majority of it.

I always assume the worst, and then happy to admit a mistake if it turns out I'm wrong.

There are good people in this world, and on this forum, I found enough people who helped me personally for no benefit. But these guys have no followers, have never said they are always right and never bragged. The signs are always there

I agree with this. The best people usually don’t need to shout that they are the best.

Real traders, analysts, or experienced people often don’t build their reputation with luxury photos, perfect screenshots, or loud promises. They build it quietly through consistency, honesty, and time. And yes, the signs are usually there.

That is exactly why I believe Opstan can be a better solution for public reputation.

On normal social media, a person can delete bad calls, hide mistakes, edit the past, and keep only the beautiful part of their image. But in Opstan, public posts are stored in a Proof-of-Work blockchain, secured by miners. Your history becomes much harder to erase or fake.

So if someone is truly good, their long-term record will speak for them. If someone is fake, their mistakes will also stay visible. This is how reputation should work: not by followers, not by hype, not by marketing — but by a public history that people can verify.

Opstan is not only for trading. It can be useful for crypto, journalism, economics, politics, research, public predictions, investigations, and any field where trust matters.

For me, this is the future of online reputation: a social network where your words have history.

Website: https://opstan.org
Explorer: https://opstan.org/blocks.html
GitHub: https://github.com/OpstanGit/opstan

Don't follow any trading guru instead learn trading yourself and become a good trader. It's not that hard to be a good trader yourself, all it needs is patience, understanding of market, and improving yourself over time by fixing your mistakes.

A good trader often learns trading in his/her own way rather than trusting forecasts/predictions of other trading gurus. In my eyes, all trading gurus are fake gurus, if you really want to be good at trading then just start analyzing the market and learn to be patient.

Overtime, you'll see that your trades will become winning trades, and during such time you should build and improve a trading strategy because if you master a single good trading strategy then you most probably get higher win rates than those who just blindly follow fake gurus.

I agree. Nobody should build their financial future by blindly following gurus or signal channels.

A serious trader should learn the market, test ideas, make mistakes, improve, and build his own strategy over time. That is the only real way to grow.

But this is also why transparent public history matters.

If someone still wants to publish analysis, forecasts, market thoughts, or educational content, their reputation should be based on a long record — not on screenshots, promises, followers, or marketing.

This is what Opstan is trying to solve.

In Opstan, public posts are stored in a Proof-of-Work blockchain, protected by miners. A trader, analyst, journalist, or blogger cannot simply delete old mistakes and rewrite the past to look perfect later.

So people should still think for themselves and learn independently. But if someone claims to be good, let their full history prove it.

For me, that is the difference: not “trust me,” but “check my public record.”

Website: https://opstan.org
Explorer: https://opstan.org/blocks.html
GitHub: https://github.com/OpstanGit/opstan

[Alphakilo]

Don't follow any trading guru instead learn trading yourself and become a good trader. It's not that hard to be a good trader yourself, all it needs is patience, understanding of market, and improving yourself over time by fixing your mistakes.

A good trader often learns trading in his/her own way rather than trusting forecasts/predictions of other trading gurus. In my eyes, all trading gurus are fake gurus, if you really want to be good at trading then just start analyzing the market and learn to be patient.

Overtime, you'll see that your trades will become winning trades, and during such time you should build and improve a trading strategy because if you master a single good trading strategy then you most probably get higher win rates than those who just blindly follow fake gurus.

I agree. Nobody should build their financial future by blindly following gurus or signal channels.

A serious trader should learn the market, test ideas, make mistakes, improve, and build his own strategy over time. That is the only real way to grow.

But this is also why transparent public history matters.

If someone still wants to publish analysis, forecasts, market thoughts, or educational content, their reputation should be based on a long record — not on screenshots, promises, followers, or marketing.

This is what Opstan is trying to solve.

In Opstan, public posts are stored in a Proof-of-Work blockchain, protected by miners. A trader, analyst, journalist, or blogger cannot simply delete old mistakes and rewrite the past to look perfect later.

So people should still think for themselves and learn independently. But if someone claims to be good, let their full history prove it.

For me, that is the difference: not “trust me,” but “check my public record.”

Website: https://opstan.org
Explorer: https://opstan.org/blocks.html
GitHub: https://github.com/OpstanGit/opstan

I don't know if you are making a reference to a site you discovered or simply marketing the site to us, but the reality of today's market is to investigate how legit a site like this is before using it.
Public records may not even be enough evidence to qualify someone as a trading guru because the market is unpredictable, and knowing so much terms or topics about trading doesn't either fit this qualifications, so the best bet is to learn best from a guru you like and try to apply any good strategies or lessons learned from them instead of trying to check their public records to know if they are worth listening or paying attention to because of their trading success on record so far.
You might just be luckier applying a strategy that failed for a guru and it becomes your holy Grail and that's how it is when luck, wisdom and patience make up the mix of characteristics to possess as a potential successful trader.

[fibonacciopstan]

Don't follow any trading guru instead learn trading yourself and become a good trader. It's not that hard to be a good trader yourself, all it needs is patience, understanding of market, and improving yourself over time by fixing your mistakes.

A good trader often learns trading in his/her own way rather than trusting forecasts/predictions of other trading gurus. In my eyes, all trading gurus are fake gurus, if you really want to be good at trading then just start analyzing the market and learn to be patient.

Overtime, you'll see that your trades will become winning trades, and during such time you should build and improve a trading strategy because if you master a single good trading strategy then you most probably get higher win rates than those who just blindly follow fake gurus.

I agree. Nobody should build their financial future by blindly following gurus or signal channels.

A serious trader should learn the market, test ideas, make mistakes, improve, and build his own strategy over time. That is the only real way to grow.

But this is also why transparent public history matters.

If someone still wants to publish analysis, forecasts, market thoughts, or educational content, their reputation should be based on a long record — not on screenshots, promises, followers, or marketing.

This is what Opstan is trying to solve.

In Opstan, public posts are stored in a Proof-of-Work blockchain, protected by miners. A trader, analyst, journalist, or blogger cannot simply delete old mistakes and rewrite the past to look perfect later.

So people should still think for themselves and learn independently. But if someone claims to be good, let their full history prove it.

For me, that is the difference: not “trust me,” but “check my public record.”

Website: https://opstan.org
Explorer: https://opstan.org/blocks.html
GitHub: https://github.com/OpstanGit/opstan

I don't know if you are making a reference to a site you discovered or simply marketing the site to us, but the reality of today's market is to investigate how legit a site like this is before using it.
Public records may not even be enough evidence to qualify someone as a trading guru because the market is unpredictable, and knowing so much terms or topics about trading doesn't either fit this qualifications, so the best bet is to learn best from a guru you like and try to apply any good strategies or lessons learned from them instead of trying to check their public records to know if they are worth listening or paying attention to because of their trading success on record so far.
You might just be luckier applying a strategy that failed for a guru and it becomes your holy Grail and that's how it is when luck, wisdom and patience make up the mix of characteristics to possess as a potential successful trader.

I understand your point, and I agree that public records alone do not make someone a “trading guru.” Markets are unpredictable, and even experienced traders can be wrong.

But my main point is not about judging traders only by profit records. I am talking more about the technology of a decentralized social network where public posts cannot be deleted, hidden, or rewritten later.

In today’s internet, a person can make many wrong predictions, delete the bad ones, keep only the successful ones, and later present themselves as an expert. In a blockchain-based public channel, the full history stays visible. People can still decide for themselves who to trust, but at least they see the complete record, not an edited version.

So the idea is not: “this person has public records, therefore he is a guru.”

The idea is: let users have a transparent, permanent history, so reputation becomes harder to fake.

Everyone should still think independently, learn, test strategies, and never blindly follow anyone. But immutable public posts can make online reputation more honest and easier to verify.

[slaman29]

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Actually, assume this first. As this is the majority of it.

I always assume the worst, and then happy to admit a mistake if it turns out I'm wrong.

There are good people in this world, and on this forum, I found enough people who helped me personally for no benefit. But these guys have no followers, have never said they are always right and never bragged. The signs are always there

I agree with this. The best people usually don’t need to shout that they are the best.

Real traders, analysts, or experienced people often don’t build their reputation with luxury photos, perfect screenshots, or loud promises. They build it quietly through consistency, honesty, and time. And yes, the signs are usually there.

That is exactly why I believe Opstan can be a better solution for public reputation.

On normal social media, a person can delete bad calls, hide mistakes, edit the past, and keep only the beautiful part of their image. But in Opstan, public posts are stored in a Proof-of-Work blockchain, secured by miners. Your history becomes much harder to erase or fake.

So if someone is truly good, their long-term record will speak for them. If someone is fake, their mistakes will also stay visible. This is how reputation should work: not by followers, not by hype, not by marketing — but by a public history that people can verify.

This is the original idea in all the simpleness that makes sense, a full history of trading, and if possible to make annotations on this blockchain with the reasoning (the concept/idea/trade/sharing charts leading to the call).

If someone actually starts using it or one of those tipster forums I think is what you need to target Opstan for, it would create a gold standard for proof of trading expertise.

Hope you get it to that stage

[fibonacciopstan]

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Actually, assume this first. As this is the majority of it.

I always assume the worst, and then happy to admit a mistake if it turns out I'm wrong.

There are good people in this world, and on this forum, I found enough people who helped me personally for no benefit. But these guys have no followers, have never said they are always right and never bragged. The signs are always there

I agree with this. The best people usually don’t need to shout that they are the best.

Real traders, analysts, or experienced people often don’t build their reputation with luxury photos, perfect screenshots, or loud promises. They build it quietly through consistency, honesty, and time. And yes, the signs are usually there.

That is exactly why I believe Opstan can be a better solution for public reputation.

On normal social media, a person can delete bad calls, hide mistakes, edit the past, and keep only the beautiful part of their image. But in Opstan, public posts are stored in a Proof-of-Work blockchain, secured by miners. Your history becomes much harder to erase or fake.

So if someone is truly good, their long-term record will speak for them. If someone is fake, their mistakes will also stay visible. This is how reputation should work: not by followers, not by hype, not by marketing — but by a public history that people can verify.

This is the original idea in all the simpleness that makes sense, a full history of trading, and if possible to make annotations on this blockchain with the reasoning (the concept/idea/trade/sharing charts leading to the call).

If someone actually starts using it or one of those tipster forums I think is what you need to target Opstan for, it would create a gold standard for proof of trading expertise.

Hope you get it to that stage

Exactly, this is why we created Opstan.

Trading is a great example: if someone posts calls, charts, reasoning and results over time, their reputation becomes real and cannot be faked by deleting old mistakes.

But the idea is bigger than trading. It can also work for political predictions, economic analysis, news, journalism, investigations and public opinions — anywhere trust and reputation matter.

In Opstan, public history stays in the blockchain. Readers can look at the full record and decide for themselves whether a blogger, journalist, analyst or trader deserves trust.

So yes, tipster and trading communities could be a very strong early use case, but the wider goal is verifiable public reputation.

[henmark]

Well, there are lots of fake gurus; we don't know if they actually make a profit, even though they show us that we can't believe because we are thinking it might be fake or edited.

That's why I keep learning about the market. Mistakes are actually the ones who will teach you everything until you discover a strategy that works for you.

If they are truly fake then for sure they don't make profits through trading but they may still make profit from deceiving people. It is only sad that with the overwhelming number of fake guru's, those legit are now being mistaken as fake too. They can also get a bad impression in an instant and this makes their few numbers to go even lower because some can get discouraged already.

Those you see as gurus on YouTube, their guides are not complete. I mean, they simply teach how to do the strategy, but it does not have any conditions and rules, plus they only give you basic information.

Most maybe but there might also be some that are complete.

If I follow some traders, I only trust them if the majority of their analysis is similar to mine. I understand that we have different perspectives on the market, but we can see what professional trading analysts do.

Or you mean to say before you follow them? You will do some comparisons first and after that that you already follow them, you will now mostly or fully rely on them? Because if you will still do comparison, I think that doesn't make any sense and you are only wasting your time. Like for example, you compare and still disagree on them or you will still follow your own trades.

[BitMaxz]

Or you mean to say before you follow them? You will do some comparisons first and after that that you already follow them, you will now mostly or fully rely on them? Because if you will still do comparison, I think that doesn't make any sense and you are only wasting your time. Like for example, you compare and still disagree on them or you will still follow your own trades.

I don't rely on them; I just learn the basics from them by analyzing the market, not the strategy itself, since I already discovered my own strategy. It is a combination of YouTube and other sources, and I learned from my mistakes before.
Having a journal and discovering and making your own rules and conditions is the thing that helps me improve my trades before I have a bad winning trades percentage, but after applying and improving using conditions and rules, I increase it and I stick with this method.

However, it might work for now, but maybe in the next few months, if the market is changing, my strategy might not work. That is why I need to observe the market properly and adjust it every time the market is changing.

Not all YouTube influencers and content can help you improve your trading. After visiting trading forums that demonstrate their trading history and style, I discovered some good rules and conditions that I could implement into my trading that work for both them and me.
That is why I only trade in trending markets because the chances of reaching your target price are higher than in consolidation phases. If you know how to read a chart, you should be able to tell whether we are in a bearish trend or not. Just like what I discuss and telling to other people here, the bearish golden zone level, Im not FUD but others misunderstood me.

[fibonacciopstan]

Well, there are lots of fake gurus; we don't know if they actually make a profit, even though they show us that we can't believe because we are thinking it might be fake or edited.

That's why I keep learning about the market. Mistakes are actually the ones who will teach you everything until you discover a strategy that works for you.

If they are truly fake then for sure they don't make profits through trading but they may still make profit from deceiving people. It is only sad that with the overwhelming number of fake guru's, those legit are now being mistaken as fake too. They can also get a bad impression in an instant and this makes their few numbers to go even lower because some can get discouraged already.

Those you see as gurus on YouTube, their guides are not complete. I mean, they simply teach how to do the strategy, but it does not have any conditions and rules, plus they only give you basic information.

Most maybe but there might also be some that are complete.

If I follow some traders, I only trust them if the majority of their analysis is similar to mine. I understand that we have different perspectives on the market, but we can see what professional trading analysts do.

Or you mean to say before you follow them? You will do some comparisons first and after that that you already follow them, you will now mostly or fully rely on them? Because if you will still do comparison, I think that doesn't make any sense and you are only wasting your time. Like for example, you compare and still disagree on them or you will still follow your own trades.

I agree that not everyone who shares trading analysis is automatically fake. The real problem is that many fake gurus delete wrong predictions, hide failed calls, and only show successful results later. Because of this, even honest analysts can lose trust.

That is exactly why we are building Opstan — a decentralized social network on its own PoW blockchain.

Website: https://opstan.org
Explorer: https://opstan.org/blocks.html

The idea is simple: if traders, analysts, journalists, or bloggers publish their opinions and predictions in a public blockchain-based social network, they cannot simply delete or rewrite their history later. Their reputation becomes based on a real public record, not screenshots or selective marketing.

So I think the best solution is not to blindly trust or reject every “guru”. The better solution is transparent history. If someone is truly honest and skilled, they should not be afraid of their past posts staying visible forever.

This is where Opstan can be useful: trading predictions, economic analysis, political opinions, and public discussions can all become part of a permanent reputation system. Then users can judge people by facts and long-term history, not hype.

[fibonacciopstan]

Or you mean to say before you follow them? You will do some comparisons first and after that that you already follow them, you will now mostly or fully rely on them? Because if you will still do comparison, I think that doesn't make any sense and you are only wasting your time. Like for example, you compare and still disagree on them or you will still follow your own trades.

I don't rely on them; I just learn the basics from them by analyzing the market, not the strategy itself, since I already discovered my own strategy. It is a combination of YouTube and other sources, and I learned from my mistakes before.
Having a journal and discovering and making your own rules and conditions is the thing that helps me improve my trades before I have a bad winning trades percentage, but after applying and improving using conditions and rules, I increase it and I stick with this method.

However, it might work for now, but maybe in the next few months, if the market is changing, my strategy might not work. That is why I need to observe the market properly and adjust it every time the market is changing.

Not all YouTube influencers and content can help you improve your trading. After visiting trading forums that demonstrate their trading history and style, I discovered some good rules and conditions that I could implement into my trading that work for both them and me.
That is why I only trade in trending markets because the chances of reaching your target price are higher than in consolidation phases. If you know how to read a chart, you should be able to tell whether we are in a bearish trend or not. Just like what I discuss and telling to other people here, the bearish golden zone level, Im not FUD but others misunderstood me.

That is a good approach. Relying blindly on influencers is dangerous, but learning basics, comparing ideas, keeping a journal, and building your own rules is much more serious.

Trading is not only about copying a strategy. A strategy can work today and fail later if the market changes. That is why public history, discipline, and real records matter. If someone says they are a good analyst or trader, people should be able to see their past opinions, wrong calls, correct calls, and how they changed their view over time.

This is one of the reasons why we are building Opstan — a decentralized social network on its own PoW blockchain.

Website: https://opstan.org
Explorer: https://opstan.org/blocks.html

On Opstan, posts and public discussions can become part of a permanent history. This can be useful not only for trading, but also for economics, politics, journalism, and analysis in general. If traders or analysts publish their ideas publicly and cannot simply delete their past mistakes, then reputation becomes more honest and transparent.

I think this is much better than only trusting screenshots, YouTube videos, or selective results. A real public record helps people judge by long-term consistency, not by hype.

[slaman29]

But the idea is bigger than trading. It can also work for political predictions, economic analysis, news, journalism, investigations and public opinions — anywhere trust and reputation matter.

In Opstan, public history stays in the blockchain. Readers can look at the full record and decide for themselves whether a blogger, journalist, analyst or trader deserves trust.

So yes, tipster and trading communities could be a very strong early use case, but the wider goal is verifiable public reputation.

Might need to be a problem of storage though, if you want to use it for things like bloggers/journalists (to me). Just thinking they have huge amounts of data and if thats not stored on blockchain, then that can be tampered with. Or am I missing a point here

I also think some things are less opaque. Journalists work are always public as I understand for example and they have much more at stake, sometimes the lives of others to protect. So I'm wondering how this all works but that's not the point of this thread, I wish you good luck!!

[fibonacciopstan]

But the idea is bigger than trading. It can also work for political predictions, economic analysis, news, journalism, investigations and public opinions — anywhere trust and reputation matter.

In Opstan, public history stays in the blockchain. Readers can look at the full record and decide for themselves whether a blogger, journalist, analyst or trader deserves trust.

So yes, tipster and trading communities could be a very strong early use case, but the wider goal is verifiable public reputation.

Might need to be a problem of storage though, if you want to use it for things like bloggers/journalists (to me). Just thinking they have huge amounts of data and if thats not stored on blockchain, then that can be tampered with. Or am I missing a point here

I also think some things are less opaque. Journalists work are always public as I understand for example and they have much more at stake, sometimes the lives of others to protect. So I'm wondering how this all works but that's not the point of this thread, I wish you good luck!!

Thank you for the question — this is actually one of the key points of Opstan.

Opstan is not just “a blockchain for storage.” The main idea is to build a decentralized public social network where posts, public messages, records, timestamps, and reputation history are secured by Proof-of-Work.

For very large files, videos, images, or archives, it is not necessary or efficient to store everything directly inside the blockchain. A better approach is to store the large data externally and keep the hash, proof, reference, or public record on-chain. This makes tampering visible: if someone edits or changes the original content later, the proof will no longer match.

So the point is not to replace every storage system. The point is to create a strong public layer where important information cannot be silently deleted, rewritten, censored, or hidden by one central company.

For bloggers, journalists, analysts, traders, communities, and public figures, this can be very powerful. Their public history becomes transparent. Their reputation becomes long-term. If someone makes honest work, it stays visible. If someone constantly promotes scams, fake news, or deletes mistakes, that history also becomes visible.

Of course, journalism is a serious field, and not everything should be public. Sources, private information, and sensitive data must be protected. Opstan is focused on public posts and public reputation, not forcing private information into the blockchain.

This is why we believe Opstan has real purpose:
a decentralized social network secured by PoW, where public information, reputation, and history become much harder to manipulate.

So yes, storage is important — but the bigger idea is proof, transparency, censorship resistance, and long-term public trust.

[SamReomo]

Website: https://opstan.org
Explorer: https://opstan.org/blocks.html
GitHub: https://github.com/OpstanGit/opstan

Why you've been spamming those domain names? It's not a good way to promote your site on a reputable forum like this. If you want to promote your site then do it in proper way not by spamming it in each reply.

I've noticed that in some replies you've posted the domain names multiple times and that's not a good practice at all. Kindly, edit your posts and remove those links so your replies can look more professional.

[crwth]

Well, reading the questions of OP, it seems as if you were to follow someone who only has good records, that's just too good to be true. Might as well go to a Ponzi schemer and give them your money lol.

Better to follow traders who are transparent and honest. You would notice details if the person is actually good and honest.

Another thing: the history of trades could be done, but I would rather have a published API for old trades to make sure the trades are real.

[fibonacciopstan]

Website: https://opstan.org
Explorer: https://opstan.org/blocks.html
GitHub: https://github.com/OpstanGit/opstan

Why you've been spamming those domain names? It's not a good way to promote your site on a reputable forum like this. If you want to promote your site then do it in proper way not by spamming it in each reply.

I've noticed that in some replies you've posted the domain names multiple times and that's not a good practice at all. Kindly, edit your posts and remove those links so your replies can look more professional.

You are right, and I apologize for that.

I did not mean to spam the forum or make my replies look unprofessional. I was trying to explain the project and provide context, but I understand that repeatedly posting domain names in replies is not the right way to promote anything here.I will be more careful from now on, edit my posts where needed, and avoid adding links unnecessarily. I respect the forum rules and the community, so I’ll try to keep future replies more useful, clean, and discussion-focused.

Thank you for pointing it out.

[fibonacciopstan]

Well, reading the questions of OP, it seems as if you were to follow someone who only has good records, that's just too good to be true. Might as well go to a Ponzi schemer and give them your money lol.

Better to follow traders who are transparent and honest. You would notice details if the person is actually good and honest.

Another thing: the history of trades could be done, but I would rather have a published API for old trades to make sure the trades are real.

I agree with this point. A trader who only shows perfect records is usually more suspicious than someone who openly shows both wins and losses. Real trading always includes mistakes, adjustments, bad entries, missed exits, and changing market conditions.

Transparency matters more than perfection.

A public trading history is useful, but it should not be based only on screenshots or self-edited posts. There should be a way to verify that the records were published at the time, not changed later, and not selectively deleted after the result became clear.

This is one of the ideas behind Opstan. Not only for trading, but also for public reputation in general. If analysis, predictions, opinions, or trading notes are posted into a public blockchain-based social network, then the history becomes harder to manipulate later.

An API for old trades is also a good idea, because verification should be open and easy. The stronger the public record, the easier it becomes to separate honest analysts from fake gurus. Reputation should be built on long-term transparent history, not perfect marketing.