# The ZX Spectrum of truth ## Participants * Lewis Cowles * Olle Jonsson * Tom Finill ## Agenda * to come up with mechanisms for truth proving, with what blocks, why it's good, and how it might be abused * confidence of things claimed by a user are true * given they pass a threshold, how valuable are those claims ## Points * API's to verify * Unknown * COST * Currently not a part of the product * Known * GitHub * Education * Problems * Begs the ablity to manually attest * Social credit * concept * Oracles (sources of truth against a transaction log) * unknown * When to generate score * When to collapse rows (do we pin at some point) * context * Question * Can you drop below a threshold? (maybe zero) * by what algorithm / ui would adjustments happen? * what are outcomes? * Known * Simple to count * Can be abused * Adjustments can be retro-actively applied * Two mechanisms (infraction points & credits) * Ambassador (trusted roles) * Known * Allows us to change tact and act humanly * Difficult to trust that much power * unknown * What tools we will need to empower trusted people with * Questions * Could this be entrusted to clients for their own network * Would there be levels of this? * Could this impact valuation of the platform * Email domain verification * Known * Flimsy and temporal * Subject to future abuse and unknown party abuse * Problems * People leave companies and lose access to corporate emails * Validity by popularity * Problems * weak validation * resolution of who is right * Benefits * Easy to think about * Easy to elicit Benefit: We can be "flexible" about what the whole thing means, _if we make the decision runtime_. ## APIs > [Qualification Check](https://www.qualificationcheck.com/) is the world’s most comprehensive online, automated verification service for academic qualifications and professional body memberships.