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anyone remember snackpass?

it was a game where you'd earn emojis for eating at spots on campus. get ten 🍦 emojis, get a free ice cream.

you'd send emojis to your friends with a little note, and have a feed of where friends are earning and sending emojis to

feels like an onchain / fc version of this would crush.

I think this is the endgame of where the experiments in tipping culture are going.

We're just trying to figure out best practices for how to manage supply, issuance, and exploit-proofing.

Instead of just centrally managed, like your example.

Decentralizing infrastructure with Kleomedes |

Building collaboration with Nearchos |

/octant Community Grants Council |

/colinks-and-co CoDAO Council

Agreed, but we don't need Blockchain for centralized versions of this, as you pointed out. 

The value for a Blockchain version is the transparency potential so people don't have to trust that is not a scam, they can see it for what it is. 

I think tipping experiments are discovering these necessary characteristics.

degen afaik was the first project to do it (decentralized or not) which is super cool. but I don't think it needs to be decentralized to work. it's just a good product / growth mechanism.