I'm watching the video right now and a question came up to me.
What happens if someone decides to abuse the fact that the blockchain is incorruptible by either spamming the platform or something similar?
Hi,
Thanks for the great input. We definitely need to cover this topic better in our whitepaper.
Blocklancer integrates several measures to prevent malicious posts and spam.
- Every profile on the Blocklancer platform gets verified. (see KYC)
- We limited the amount of jobs that can be created by a single user within a certain timeframe. (120 seconds)
- Every freelancer only has 10 bids per week. (Currently in the alpha 10 bids per day)
- Blocklancer is able to prevent jobs from being listed
Those facts combined make it very hard if not unfeasible to mass spam on the Blocklancer platform. On top of that we added features to prevent users from accidently spamming by client side checking the input of the user.
Best regards,
The Blocklancer Team
How strict is the KYC going to be? E.g. will there be any significant issues with identity theft?
Can freelancers buy additional bids? Are 10 just enough (seems like with fierce competition it could be hard to get a job)? Or do you intend for the low amount of bids to create more well planned bidding instead of spamming bids on every job available?
And nice, I wasn't aware that jobs would be prevented from being listed. How does this happen, given that it's supposed to be a decentralized platform? Will something like the tribunal be used to decide jobs that shouldn't be listed/should be delisted?
Hi,
Thanks for the great questions.
We decided to only allow 10 bids to reduce the amount of bids in total. If you think about it the chances of getting a job are always the same no matter the amount of bids. The only thing that changes is that there is more/less competition on every job. Another important fact of the 10 bids is that a freelancer shouldn't just mass bid on every job. Otherwise he could just bid on all jobs and cancel all he doesn't likes that much and thus only causes the clients trouble.
If a Tokenholder owns more than zero vote shares (see whitepaper) he is able to report a job offer. After this as with a normal dispute a single random vote group (see whitepaper) of the Token Holder decides about the job offer. If they come to the conclusion that the job is indeed spam it gets delisted.
To tackle identity theft we plan to integrate services such as uPort and similar services:
uPort allows end-users to own and control their personal identity, reputation, data, and digital assets, securely and selectively disclose their data to counterparties, access digital services without using passwords; digitally sign claims, transactions, and documents, control and send value on a Blockchain, interact with decentralized applications and smart contracts, and encrypt messages and data.
Best regards,
The Blocklancer Team