Deposit and Challenge Requests

[ludovico]

@Peter

I cannot stand the fact that a simple typo in the address displayed by the human involves that the human loses all the deposit.

I’m a 100% with you, and this is why I’m supporting the Proposal that removes this for a challenge reason.

@Peter

Why not lower the deposit by a little? 500 USD is too much for most of people, especially those that are approaching crypto for the first time.

The reason why the deposit is what it is now exceeds a little bit of what PoH can currently do. The contract sits in the Ethereum network and the amount of ETH is just enough to make the challenger task worth doing, and thus keeping the registry safe. Right now the abusive behaviour of challengers is considered by some as just collateral damage (I do not). Check this post to see how tricky it is to change the base deposit in PoH.

@Peter

If there is a mismatch between the address displayed and the address in the video, just verify that the video address is not already registered by an other account; classify the error as “human error” and give back 80% of the deposit to the human, 20% to the challenger.

This solution is very tricky to implement in terms of the technicalities of how a Smart Contract works. The current contract is immutable and those changes would require that everything burns to the ground.

@Peter

Underline the risks of a bad submission more times during the process so that it’s very clear to people they have to check multiple times the addresses. I don’t think this is done enough.

There are several independent efforts on this front. Currently site maintenance is understaffed (or non-staffed?) and every solution comes from very generous developers that send some pull request to the website repository. So if you are (or know someone who is) a dev, please help us.