This is a self built system, not a third party.
Should that be considered an advantage or a disadvantage over proz? ;-)
With that in mind I can release the addresses that I pay out to and you can see payments for each action.
At least!Over half of the actions are via twitter and facebook which are completely trackable.
Assuming we trust Twitter and Facebook. I don't.
And the other half?
Just look at the tweets that are being retweeted and you get a count.
That only sort of helps, we still have the "how do we verify your anti-spam actions" problem.
If you have a better way of proving let me know and ill try and implement it
How about simply
recording a proof?When an action is taken, a reference should be submitted to the coin's network. Network nodes should retrieve and verify the reference material (verify x509 cert belongs to the action's corresponding "domain authority", confirm correct content of post/re-tweet or confirm some duration of "follow" exceeds some threshold time, etc) and sign a certification that (at the time of their retrieval) the action was validated. Maybe they can even attest to some "not spam vote."
Both the "action data" and the certifications over them should be stored into the DHT under a Merkle tree, so if Twitter goes defunct and shuts down servers tomorrow we can still historically validate actions. The data should probably even be entered into some authenticated index(es) for easy analysis/retrieval. (Reverse finger tree comes to mind, given the "plain text" nature most action data will likely have?)
Alt-coin developers should ask themselves "is there any one person in the world who could affect/control my distribution process" and if the answer is "Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerburg (or many of their staffers) could disrupt my coin by changing some historical database records" then your distribution model is fundamentally flawed.
The address I'll be paying out with is public, so you can check that at any time once payouts begin this evening. They'll be happening once a day.
You don't trust twitter and Facebook to track like/tweet/retweet counts and present posts accurately? I seriously doubt facebook is going to throw in a bunch of fake likes just to make me look good...
Also you can look at an account and see friends/followers/followings/post counts and get an idea of how real the account is.
The other half, with this current campaign are things like visit the coins homepage. I can verify they navigated to the homepage, but there is no written proof. Each coin can select there own choice of actions. They can all be on facebook/twitter to make them traceable if they wanted.
We require a unique email, twitter account, and coin address for each action set. You gatta ask yourself if it is worth it to the spammer to create a unique account for each system for what amounts to less than $.01 of profit.
Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerburg has the power to screw with just about every fortune 500's bottom line. If twitter or facebook go down, or decide to no longer allow ads, everyone hurts. That's not anything isolated to altcoins, and that's not something avoidable by any major company or coin. Those are two major advertising and social media services that everyone uses.
This is also one, very cheap service. The entire lifeline and well being of a coin should not be tied to just one outlet. Its up to the developers to
This isn't meant to be a coins main distribution service, although it very easily could be. This is a promotional tool to get people talking about your coin.
For the type of proof you are requesting, it sounds like the coins themselves need to be modified. I'm not a coin dev, I'm a service provider.
