Possible use case: value network citations

[bhaugen]

We came upon a use case that might interest the sustain gang:

Value networks have the concept of citations, which are somewhat like scientific citations, but the people who did the cited work are also eligible for participation in income distributions according to value equations.

But the current NRP implementation is limited to citing work that exists within the system: that is, the instance of NRP software where the citation exists. We are now talking to people who do artistic work, and want to cite work that does not exist within the system, and for which it would be useless cruft to include the cited work within the system.

Yet and still, they might want to share income with the people who did the cited work.

Do you think Sustain (with some extensions) could provide a base for doing such distributions?

Here's our issue: valnet/valuenetwork#395

[joshuavial]

@bhaugen this would be pretty easy to do by making a sustain.json file called sustain-citations.json or something similar. I would need to build a --config param so it could find the config file and then you could do things like sustain add <username> <address> --config sustain-citations.json to add a citation for a user.

Then whenever bitcoins were sent to the address for that file it would just be a matter of running the sustain distribute command to send them to all the people who have been cited.

[joshuavial]

#22

[simontegg]

Very similar implememntation https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/

[bhaugen]

Nice!