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+# CRVC
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+## Cryptoeconomic Release & Version Control
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+### Summary
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+CRVC is a custom `git-remote` and a collection of cryptoeconomic games to allow anonymous actors to trustlessly coordinate git repositories and software releases.
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+The current idea is to treat git commit history and release binary hashes as [Schelling Points](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)).
+Git Objects are deployed on decentralized file storage (Swarm/IPFS) and are extended to provide hash of the content that is more robust than SHA1.
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+The work is a generalization of the discussion for providing a voluntary update mechanism to Status and encourage deterministic builds , which [can be found here](https://discuss.status.im/t/self-updating-status/964).
+Inspired by [mango](https://github.com/axic/mango) and [pando](https://github.com/pandonetwork/pando).
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+### Goals
+
+- Friends don't let friends run untrusted binaries, however trust is in the eye of the beholder.
+- Providing some assurance that:
+    + the binaries and build environment were not tampered with
+    + the same source code was used.
+- Checking for updates should be passive.
+- Updating should be voluntary.
+- A user should be able to independently build and check artifacts against the respective hash of a binary.
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+
+### Todo
+- Contract Games
+- Create a Git-Remote
+- Pretty much everything