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Comment by detaro | Hacker News Reader

"Wikipedia for structured data" seems like an odd tagline when Wikipedia already has a Wikipedia for structured data.

Not to mention Wikidata, which is already Wikipedia for structured data.

Thanks for the feedback! One of the differences between DIRT and Wikipedia is that we place a higher value on information accuracy. For example, in the cryptocurrency market project teams often list investors and advisors as affiliated with their project when they are not involved. A Wikipedia list of investors would not be sufficient. You want these project teams to have skin in the game and something to lose if they are spreading false information.

That said - the explanation didn't fit as well into a one liner :)

So wikidata but for crypto? That's pretty thin. Why didn't you try to 'update' wikidata?

With wikipedia or projects like Open Street Maps, vandalism, spam, and poor data quality are problems at scale. In particular, crowdsourcing does not work for curating commercial data or information where you can profit by spreading misinformation.

For example, in the cryptocurrency space. Projects raise funding through initial coin offers (ICOs). In an ICO, you can contribute ETH to a smart contract for the promise of tokens in the future. Having an openly editable list of ICOs and their contribution address would not work. The list would be quickly spammed because malicious actors have a really high incentive to put their personal wallet address as the contribution address.

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