Reputation But what about reputation? Reputation is a big part of any marketplace environment; buyers want to be able to trust sellers, and vice versa. In a centralized model, server-owners can hand out reputation to individuals and, with appropriate security, they don’t need to deal with individuals tampering with their own reputation to defraud the system. In a decentralized system, reputation is much more difficult to verify. Trust is dealt with in OpenBazaar through two different types of synergistic systems: global trust and projected trust. When all members of the network trust a
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