Glossary + Citations
Term | Definition |
account | a recognized address owned by one or several private keys.. |
activity | a representation of how active an account is on the network. Mathematically, this is the sum of all previous rewards received by an account. |
age | the sum of the token value of each input transaction (k1, k2 , . . . kn ) into an account multiplied by the number of blocks or periods since each transaction occurred.. |
influence | the total representation of an account’s social capital, made up of three core components: Age, Activity, and Social Level. |
social level | the numerical rank of each account, determined by the orders of all other accounts in a chain that references previous blocks. |
Yup protocol | the autonomous software that establishes the infrastructure for the Yup Network, determining asset allocation, network ownership, transparency, etc. This runs atop a DLT, currently EOS. |
YUP token | the fungible cryptoasset used to increase impact and engage with the Yup network and ad marketplace. New tokens are minted under a strict predetermined schedule. |
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Geiger, R. Stuart. “Bot-Based Collective Blocklists in Twitter: the Counterpublic Moderation of Harassment in a Networked Public Space.” Information, Communication, & Society, vol. 19, no. 6, 2016, pp. 787–803.
Barbaro, Michael. “Pithy, Mean and Powerful: How Donald Trump Mastered Twitter for 2016.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 5 Oct. 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/politics/donald-trump-twitter-use-campaign-2016.html.
Business, Fox. “Trump: I Doubt I’d Be Here If It Weren’t for Social Media.” YouTube, YouTube, 23 Oct. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGj134xWVFQ.
Tachalova, Alexandra. “This Is What They Search For: The Most Popular US Industries & Traffic Shares.” Moz, Moz, 14 July 2017, www.moz.com/blog/most-popular-us-industries-traffic-shares.
“140+ Social Media Statistics That Matter to Marketers in 2018.” Hootsuite Social Media Management, 10 Oct. 2018.
“How Much Data Is Generated Every Minute On Social Media?” WeRSM - We Are Social Media, 18 Aug. 2015
Bond, Robert M., et al. “A 61-Million-Person Experiment in Social Influence and Political Mobilization.” Nature, vol. 489, no. 7415, 2012, pp. 295–298., doi:10.1038/nature11421
“Facebook Users Worldwide 2018.” Statista, Statista https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/
“Zuckerberg’s Apology Tour Has Not Done Much to Regain User Trust.” NBC Universal News Group.
Kanter, Jake. “The Backlash That Never Happened: New Data Shows People Actually Increased Their Facebook Usage after the Cambridge Analytica Scandal.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 20 May 2018, www.businessinsider.com/people-increased-facebook-usage-after-cambridge-analytica-scandal-2018-5.
Zuckerman, Ethan. “The Internet’s Original Sin.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 20 June 2018, www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041/.
Satoshi Nakamoto. “Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system.”
Steem. “Steem: An incentivized, blockchain-based, public content platform.” June 2018
Buterin. Griffith. “Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget”. 2017. Pg 6.
King, S. & Nadal, S. Ppcoin: “Peer-to-peer crypto-currency with proof-of-stake”. 2012.
Buterin, Vitalik. “Slasher: A Punitive Proof-of-Stake Algorithm.” Ethereum Blog, Ethereum Foundation, 2014.
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Bowe, Chiesa, Green, Miers, Mishra, Wu. “ZEXE: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation”. 2018.
Langhe, Bart De, et al. “Navigating by the Stars: Investigating the Actual and Perceived Validity of Online User Ratings.” Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 42, no. 6, 2015, pp. 817–833., doi:10.1093/jcr/ucv047.
