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Understanding Trust.
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A single metadata-file can come from various sources, each with its own
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trust level.
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A metadata-file that we get from a website (DNS based) has ultimate trust,
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the data is certainly published by that company.
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So, if you have an spacex.com, and they publish data on their website, this
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is most certainly theirs. And the company has a good reputation. The result
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is High trust.
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If, on the other hand, you download a metadata-file from some website with
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a name that is virtually unknown, we know they published the data, but
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there is no trust gained form that fact. The metadata represented doesn't
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have to be all that valuable. Or even truthful.
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What we learn from this thought process is that trust is a chained concept.
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A metadata file's can have ultimate trust, meaning we know for sure who
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wrote it.
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The origin itself may be trustworthy, or they may be scammers.
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**A trusted registry for bitcoin cash metadata (BCMR) takes this into
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account and helps user find trust in the data presented.**
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Roughly speaking there are two components here.
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1. An individual metadata file has high trust if the details it talks about
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are consistent. The main ways to check this are a) the website (DNS) it
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is taken from is renowned. Or b) the metadata refers to an on-chain auth-base
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which we managed to verify to refer back to the metadata file.
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2. A category or auth-base can have human set trust.
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Even if 1 is high trust, the token or the on-chain authority may have been
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manually identified to be impersonating others or to push known spam/scam.
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The opposite is true too, a known company can have identified itself as the
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owner and that we can advertise the trust to be higher.
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In hour generated metadata this is reflected by the (token) category itself
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having a trust, and each metadata file linked having it's own specific
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trust.
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