Name YOUR decentralized social network?

We’ll award $125 – $500 in STEEM for a name idea¹ that we end up using that wasn’t already one of our ideas listed below. Feedback in the comments section please. Only suggest names for which the .com isn’t currently in (successful) use.

I’m leading a group that is developing a decentralized ledger and social network.

Please be encouraged to comment about which name ideas you strongly like and dislike. We’re throwing a lot of ideas on the community wall to see what sticks. A correctly decentralized social network should impart some sense of collective ownership and interest in choosing the name.

Please consider resteeming this so I can receive as much feedback as possible from community about the choice of names.

I thought of some name ideas:

Note there’s an advantage for viral spread via word-of-mouth if the token name and the website name are the same.

Existing names for proposed or launched tokenized social networks on distributed ledgers that I’m aware of include: Steem, Minds, Kik (kin), Yours, (“gift of”) Gab, Ark, LBRY, and Synereo.

A brandable name is unique and memorable enough to standout amongst a see of copycat names.

A name should express what is unique and enticing about the product or service offered.

I want to read your comments about your preferences.

For the brandable name of a blogging system not factoring in the token name or other factors such as emphasizing decentralization and onboarding/gamification, my personal opinion in order of declining preference:

1. Medium
2. Lucid
3. Gist
4. Feed
5. Grok
6. Knugget
7. Blogger
8. Illume
9. Candid
10. Steem ←^{_{ranked lower because esteem has only an indirect correlation to blogging}}
11. Crux
12. Airout
13. YaketyYak or Yak
14. Ours
15. Yonder
16. Taboo
17. Mojo
18. Anarchive
19. Welog
20. CRED

For the brandable name of a video sharing system:

1. Youtube
2. CredTV (or Credtube)
3. Candid
4. Funtube
5. Unglued ^{_{(from your TV or screen)}} (or Airout)
6. Instagram
7. Pinterest
8. LiveLeak
9. Feed
10. MOSH
11. Taboo
12. Vimeo
13. Dtube ← ^{_{ranked lower because 26 copycat permutations of _tube}}
14. Gush
15. Vine
16. Knugget
17. Yard
18. Anarcast or Anarchive
19. DailyMotion
20. Yonder
21. Junction

For the brandable name of a discussion forum system:

1. Disqus
2. YaketyYak (or Yak)
3. Reddit
4. Feed
5. Airout
6. 4chan
7. Junction
8. The Hub
9. Interact
10. Knugget
11. Slashdot
12. Yahoo! Groups
13. Candid
14. Ours

For the brandable name of a Q & A system:

1. Quora
2. Answers
3. Grok
4. Knugget
5. Crux
6. Askville
7. Illume
8. Gist
9. Feed
10. Candid
11. Junction
12. StackExchange

For the brandable name of a communication and chat system (c.f. also):

1. LINE
2. Skype
3. Kik
4. Telegram
5. Yak (or YaketyYak)
6. Links
7. Hangouts
8. Junction
9. Interact
10. Snapchat
11. WeChat
12. Cryptocat
13. Jabber
14. Tokbox
15. Airout
16. Feed
17. Scrollback
18. Anarcast
19. Welog
20. Candid
21. Gush
22. Viber
23. Yonder
24. Slack
25. Discord
26. Yard
27. Voxer
28. JAMBOX
29. Signal
30. WhatsApp
31. Yahoo! Messenger
32. Facebook Messenger

For the brandable name of a microblogging system:

1. Twitter ^{_{(is fucked)}}
2. Feed
3. Blurb / Blurt ←apropos but currently in use for non-microblogging sites
4. Gush
5. Welog
6. Yammer
7. Yak (or YaketyYak)
8. Knugget
9. Crux
10. Tumblr
11. Plurk

For the brandable name of a music sharing system:

1. iTunes
2. SoundCloud
3. Pandora
4. Tidal
5. MOSH
6. Juju
7. JAMBOX
8. Spotify
9. Knugget
10. CRED (or Credom)
11. Anarchive
12. Yard
13. Feed
14. Junction
15. BandCamp
16. Deezer

For the brandable name of a decentralized ledger flexible enough to power all of the above social media and networking systems:

1. EOS
2. Ethereum ^{_{(scaling R&D ongoing)}}
3. NOOS ^_(sphere)
4. CRED (or Credom)
5. NEO
6. Aion
7. Ark
8. Steem
9. Cardano

Above list ranked by brandable token name where token name is same as platform name:

1. cred
2. steem
3. ether
4. noos
5. eos
6. ark
7. neo
8. aion

Most brandable token names:

1. cred
2. knugget
3. mojo
4. steem
5. ether
6. mosh
7. feed
8. funbits
9. anarcash
10. yon
11. dids
12. yak or yaketyyak
13. noos
14. crux

My tentative conclusion

Pending feedback from the community, my current preference is to name the decentralized ledger Credom — “Kingdom of CRED”, with a token name cred.

Not everyone will like the same names because people all over the world have different cultures, preferences, and even perhaps prejudices. So by having many types of names for different apps will provide more probability that everyone will like at least one of the chosen names or a subset of them.

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MOSH

Perhaps negative to some people but actually expressing insouciant, uninhibited, candid freedom, artistic expression, and playfulness. MOSH is playing into the punk rock, anti-authority, individualistic expression meme. MOSH could be a rebellious, artistic, punk, social name for money. Eminem popularized MOSH as a rebellious and self-expression concept:

mosh
/ mäSH /
^{verb: mosh; 3rd person present: moshes; past tense: moshed; past participle: moshed; gerund or present participle: moshing}
    dance to rock music in a violent manner involving jumping up and down and deliberately colliding with other dancers.

^{Origin 1980s: perhaps from mash or mush. Concise of way of saying slam dancing.}

Urban Dictionary: Mosh

^{To mosh: A way of expressing yourself at an mental rock/punk concert. Almost always done in a “pit” with extremely cool people who you don't even know but they'll look out for you! You get pushed around, shoved, you fall on your ass but it's all in the spirit and you have a f*ckin great time!!!}

To those that don’t know of the concept or video, MOSH may connote mush or mash and not it’s obscure, abstract punk meaning. I suspect that MOSH appeals more to males than females. I particularly like it, because I’m rebellious and I like punk and eclectic styles and music. And anything abstract and creative tends to stimulate my interest. Problem is that those who know what MOSH is may on first mention think our website is pertaining to music only. Branding works though if people don’t already associate a product or service to a name beforehand, e.g. I ask anyone what Uber is and they respond “taxi”.

We registered mosh.sh, mosh.one, mosh.tube, mosh.cafe, moshone.com, moshtube.com, moshcafe.com, mosh.cash, moshing.us, and mosh.fun for $111 total.

_{The domain mosh.com was offered for $1000 monthly lease in 2016.}

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Unglued / Airout / Uncaged

Unleashed from the corporate controlled social networking and medium. Freed from their control over your data, the privacy of your data² (c.f. also, and the feature limitations, closed source code, controlled narratives, forced subjugation to advertising and propaganda.

As compared to ‘unleashed’ and ‘unstuck’, Unglued is semantically compatible with the token name bits because when things come unglued they’re in pieces. And it may additionally convey a dissident, nonconformist, politically incorrect, schismatic, iconoclastic, rebellious, artistic, uninhibited state-of-mind (which some may interpret negatively as psychotic). Compared to Unbound, Unglued emphasizes becoming Untied instead of also limitless frontier. Unglued doesn’t have ‘unlaced’’s off-topic association with loosened shoelaces and lack of contamination.

Unglued has another positive meaning coming unglued from traditional mainstream media such as the television. However, some may perceive it and Uncaged negatively or disassociated with the most conspicuous functions of social media and networking. Airout also conveys a dispersed system semantically compatible with the same token names. Airout can be interpreted as “open communication”, and thus a system which fosters freedom-of-speech.

We registered unglued.co, unglued.me, unglued.us, airout.co, and airout.me for $26 total.

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Candid

Candid isn’t just about impromptu camera snapshots. The etymology derives from a Latin word meaning white and pure. It signifies genuine, uninhibited, frank, unsuppressed, and unscripted expression in any form including writing.

We registered candid.one, candid.cafe, candidlive.com, and candidcafe.com for $34 total.

_{The domain candid.com is registered to Candid Color Systems which presumably is unlikely to sell the domain at any price. However, their not so popular business isn’t any way related or relevant to social media and networking on a decentralized ledger. Thus search engines and browser address bar autocomplete would tend to send users to the more popular candid.* domain. Ditto app stores for the mobile app.}

_{The unpopular company that is using getcandid.com is also using candid.io.}

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Juju

If Uber can be branded to associate with taxi service, then Juju can be branded to associate with “charm and magic attributed to” social media and networking and the “amulets” that represent the tokens.

ju·ju
/ ˈjo͞ojo͞o /
noun
    1. a style of music popular among the Yoruba in Nigeria and characterized by the use of guitars and variable-pitch drums.
    2. a fetish, charm, or amulet of West African peoples.
    3. the magic attributed to or associated with jujus.

So many people all over the world will identify with this name because of the popularity of recent Hiphop/Rap song Juju On That Beat:

We registered juju.cafe and juju.cash for $11 total.

_{Although the domain juju.com is in use for a jobs website (and they control juju.net also), that website has no new press releases since 2013 and within the past year its Alexa ranking has dropped in global ranking from Top 50,000 to 80,000 websites. Thus presumably the business is withering and can be bought out if the price offered is high enough.}

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Oz

If Uber can be branded to associate with taxi service, then Oz can be branded to associate with “an ideal or fantastical place” for social media and networking.

Oz
/ ˈäz /
noun
    an ideal or fantastical place or mythical land

Westerners will identify with this name because of the popularity of the Wizard of Oz movie and the numerous adaptations before and hence such as the Disney’s 2013 Oz the Great and Powerful.

The The Wonder Wizard of Oz was book written by L. Frank Baum who participated in the 1983 Coxley’s March on Washington, D.C. to protest against austerity and the gold standard which was imposing massive deflation. The Yellow Brick Road represented the march against the gold standard and the Wizard was Congress or federal government. The Tinman (c.f. also) was Industry, the Scarecrow Agriculture, and the Cowardly Lion was William Jennings Brian and his fiery speech “Thou Shalt Not Crucify Mankind Upon a Cross of Gold.” Coxley was arrested for walking on the grass to break up that March. The book and the board game Monopoly were a product of a rising passion for social and economic justice which for the fore-bearer of FDR’s New Deal in the 1930s which launched the U.S.A. into the socialism which destroyed the West. By the 1930s, the book lost its political meaning and became a children’s movie in 1939. There’s hidden symbolism in the movie such as the Wizard ends up being only one man controlling the fiery Wizard from behind the curtain, which some of equated to the powers-that-be that control the government (and Federal Reserve central bank) from behind the curtain. Sadly, there were also horrors in the production of the movie.

Bonus Army march on Washington, D.C. in 1932

We didn’t register any domain for this idea yet.

_{Although the domain oz.com is in use for a sports telecast website, that has a very low traffic Alexa ranking at less than Top 50,000 to 80,000 of all global websites. Presumably this website can be bought out if the price offered is high enough. Estibot (valuate) estimated the price of $3,200,000 but that seems high given the actual use of domain currently although two letter domains justify a premium.}

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Mojo

mo·jo
/ ˈmōjō /
noun
    a magic charm, talisman, or spell.

We registered mojojo.co and mojojo.us for $10 total.

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Ours

I think Ours is a better name than Yours and it definitely implies that the ledger and social network is owned by the community, yet it’s a weird name for a token.

We registered ours.network, ourz.org, and ourz.us for $13 total.

Note we also registered eca.sh as a potential token name.

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CRED / Credom

We purchased the domain name cred.me before Verify publicly announced their project would use CRED as their token name. I put that project on notice that we might proceed with the use of the name. We haven’t decided whether to proceed with that name. We haven’t yet purchased the CRED.net domain name is for sale with a minimum bid offer starting at $10,000. It looks unlikely that we could obtain CRED.com. I like the concept of credibility and artistic Street Cred. I like that the domain, project name, and token name would all be the same so that word-of-mouth adoption would be facilitated. The one syllable name which is easily to pronounce and spell is also very favorable. And it’s one letter shorter than STEEM. Disadvantages are it connotates credit and debt to some people. And emphasis is on remuneration and/or accrediting as opposed to generalized social networking benefits. There’s also an extant BitBounce project with a CREDO token name.

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We also registered credtv.com, cred.cash, cred.tube, cred.cloud, and creds.network for $40 total. We also purchased cred.me.

An alternative variant idea is Credom — “Kingdom of CRED”.

We also registered credom.comand credom.net for $24 total.

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NOOS^_(sphere)

We have registered no-os.net, no-osphere.com, noos.network, no-os.us, and noosphere.network for $30 total.

_{We haven’t yet decided whether to purchase noosphere.net for $649 because we’re undecided whether it would be better to focus on the shortened name NOOS which would also be the token name. Also noosphere.com might already be in use. My guess is that NOOS.com is available for sale at some price although I haven’t inquired. Estibot (valuate) estimated the price of noos.com to be greater than $0.5 million. An alternative variant idea which we haven’t registered is noos.is (yet that sounds very similar to extant project Gnosis).}

i think cred is better but as you mentioned it may not translate in to all the use cases this project may encompass. seems to me cred is mainly a unit of trustworthyness. noos can take that meaning on also as it gets popular. sorta like google (not the other [googol] spelling anyway) means search now instead of a mathamatical term. noos also has the advantage of being more or less unique as far as the general population is concerned. we can make it mean anything. cred already as a more or less set in stone definition. not sure if that is an advantage or not.

Also CRED (as in CREDO and Credom) is cartoonish. NOOS is more intellectual, abstract, and nebulous ethereal (isn’t that what we really want?). And I agree it is plausible to be used as a verb, as in “noos it” but kinda weak as a verb compared to “google it”.

OTOH, noos is not as easily spoken. CRED crisply comes off the tongue.

However, if you asked me which site I could remember as a place to go spread and attain knowledge (blogging, wikis, discussion) I would remember NOOS more than CRED. It stands out more as unique and associates more with knowledge. Yet I hate the way it sounds as one syllable. I prefer to say no-os. Noose (nous) sounds like something I will use to hang a person by their neck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere

^{The noosphere is the sphere of human thought. The word derives from the Greek νοῦς (nous "mind") and σφαῖρα (sphaira "sphere"), in lexical analogy to "atmosphere" and "biosphere". It was introduced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1922[4] in his Cosmogenesis.}

^{In the theory of Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition fundamentally transforms the biosphere. […] The noosphere is therefore as much part of nature as the barysphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. As a result, Teilhard sees the "social phenomenon [as] the culmination of and not the attenuation of the biological phenomenon." These social phenomena are part of the noosphere and include, for example, legal, educational, religious, research, industrial and technological systems. In this sense, the noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. The noosphere thus grows in step with the organization of the human mass in relation to itself as it populates the earth. Teilhard argued the noosphere evolves towards ever greater personalisation, individuation and unification of its elements.}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noos

^{In the Aristotelian scheme, nous is the basic understanding or awareness which allows human beings to think rationally.}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noogenesis#To_the_parameters_of_the_phenomenon_.22noo.22.2C_.22intellectus.22

^{The emergence of the human mind is considered to be one of the five fundamental phenomenons of emergent evolution. […] Development of an individual mind (ontogenesis ) […] Appearance of the Global Intelligence concept}

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Links

We registered links.cafe for $7 total.

_{The domain links.comhas never been seriously used throughout its 18 year history. The domain was offered for sale at an original asking price of $500,000 with a minimum offer of $200,00 as of February 2001 by Richard Finkelstein. The asking price was increased to $1.2 million as of February 2011, then increased again to €1.3 million as of July 2017. In [October 2017)(https://web.archive.org/web/20171004134059/http://www.links.com:80/) the asking price and offer to sell was removed from the website. I believe (the Jewish I presume) Mr. Finkelstein is a bit unrealistic because the domain while being premium, isn’t the most ideal fit to the type of social media and networking sites which could pay a $million for a domain. He should sell at a more reasonable price before decentralized ledgers and/or the Chinese disrupt the .com monopoly. He probably doesn’t realize that the value is peaking or has peaked already because of disruption on several fronts including the devolution of Western civilization and the rise of China which may prefer a non-English spelling of .com.}

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Grok

“grok it” to know more about it.

We registered grok.fyi, grokfyi.com, grok.one, and grok.network for $28.

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Gush

Overflowing with uncensorable social media/networking activity and information.

gush
/ ɡəSH /
verb
    1‍. flow out in a rapid and plentiful stream, often suddenly.
    2‍. speak or write with effusiveness or exaggerated enthusiasm.

noun
    1‍. a rapid and plentiful stream or burst.
    2‍. exaggerated effusiveness or enthusiasm.

We registered gush.sh, gushsh.com, gush.one and gush.network for $57.

_{The gush.com domain served a shopping website until August 2016, then it remained blank until January 2017. The .SH registrar may offer gu.sh for auction eventually.}

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Taboo

An example of a negative name with a potentially positive Streisand effect of intrigue.

We registered tabooo.net and tabooo.org for $24 total.

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Anarcast / Anarchive

Negative meaning for many people analogous to Taboo, yet emphasizing decentralization as the positive interpretation of anarchy for those who grok this meaning. We registered anarcast.net, anarcast.org, anarcast.me, anarcast.co, anarcast.us, anarcast.cloud, and anarcast.network for $45 total.

The token name could be anarcash and we registered anar.cash and anarcash.com.

Anything related to anarchy will not be good for mass adoption. The idea of anarchy frightens the average user.

What do we mean by mass adoption? Do we mean an initial critical mass of 1 million daily users of the site, which would less than 0.25% of Facebook’s usership.

We’re not initially targeting the average user. We’re targeting the indie publisher (blogger, video, games dev, etc) who wants to eliminate the middleman. And the users who consume their content.

However Jeff Berwick of anarchast.com might not be too thrilled with someone using a name that differs by only one letter, unless perhaps he was bought out and/or felt he could earn much more by publishing on the new social network. My opinion is anarcast is a better name than anarchast for a content media site (i.e. the ‘cast’). Jeff is emphasizing the ‘anarchy’.

An alternative variant idea is Anarchive for which we registered anarchive.io, anarchive.co, anarchive.us, and anarchive.cloud for $50 total.

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Welog

We registered welog.org and welog.co for $20 total.

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Yard / Yak / YaketyYak

Homey, neighborly, yakety-yaking (c.f. defined) in the backyard. Southern comfort gossip on the porch ambiance.

We registered yard.cafe, yak.cool, yak.fyi, yakfyi.com yaketyyak.co, yaketyyak.us, yakety-yak.us, yaketyyak.in, and yaketyyak.cash for $47 total.

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Interact

Interact on the Internet.

We registered interact.zone and acts.cash for $9 total.

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Yonder

We registered yonder.one, yonder.zone, yonderone.com, yonderus.com, yonder.us.com, and yonder.chat for $60.

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Junction

An electric junction for the hive of decentralized ledger activity flowing through ecash.

The hackjunction.com website exemplifies the concept.

junc·tion
/ ˈjəNG(k)SH(ə)n /
noun
    a point where two or more things are joined.

We registered junction.chat and junction.zone for $29 total.

^{The junction.com domain served a barely functional website until September 2015, then it remained inoperative hence. The domain was offered for sale at an asking price of $750,000 as of September 11, 2013, then reduced the asking price to $100,000 as of May 2014.}

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Crux

crux
/ krəks,kro͝oks /
noun
    the decisive or most important point at issue.

We registered crux.fyi, cruxfyi.com, and crux.cash for $17.

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Cha-Ching / Ka-Ching

This name emphasizes the money making aspect of the social networking rewards. It’s readily understood in many nations due the cash register jingle and Mr. Krab in Sponge Bob cartoons.

We registered cha-ching.cloud, cha-ching.co, cha-ching.network, and cha-ching.us for $20 total.

_{The domains cha-chi.ng and ka-chi.ng are available for registration for $199 annually, but chachi.ng and kachi.ng are already registered. However, cha-ching.com is registered by the Cartoon Network:}

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JAMBOX

This was the idea I had in 2015 before Steem was created. All these hand-drawn sketches on this page are mine. This idea is probably most applicable to music and games.

We registered jambox.org, jambox.us, funbits.org, and funbits.us for $28 total.

The domain jambox.com redirects to soundforce.com so either it can be purchased if the price offered is high enough, otherwise the .org TLD is sufficient for a Google ranking given the .com isn’t relevant to the search term “jambox”.

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Oasis

Our fertile enclave, sanctuary, or haven from the desert of the powers-that-be.

We didn’t register any domain for this idea yet. The domain oasis.com is in use by some marginal dating site, but oas.is appears to not be in use and thus presumable for sale at a high enough price. Also oasis.net is offered for sale for the price of $10,000.

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Lucid

We registered lucid.pics and lucid.ws for $33 total.

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Illume

Means to enlighten or illuminate.

We registered illumeme.com and illumeme.me for $13 total.

Unfortunately it could be easily confused with Illumina and typoed.

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Gist

We registered gist.fyi, gistfyi.com, gist.zone, and gist.today for $21 total.

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Knugget

Means a valuable idea or fact: “nuggets of information”.

We registered knugget.co, knuggets.co, knuggetz.co, knugget.net, knuggets.net, knuggetz.net, knugget.org, knuggetz.org, knugget.us, knuggets.us, knuggetz.us, knugget.cc, knuggets.cc, knuggetz.cc, knugget.me, knuggets.me, knuggetz.me, and knugget.in for $141 total.

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Feed

Web feed.

We registered feedooo.com and feed.foundation for $16 total.

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Crush

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¹ _{The higher amount will be awarded if we think the idea is exceptional.}

² _{We can do Cluster’s circles of private sharing on decentralized, public ledger by employing encryption.}

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