- Every open source project has a need for profit and a chance of being exploited for free. Every participant in an open source project (developers, evaluators) has a need for profit and a chance of their work being exploited for free.
- So now, everyone puts up a sum of money and puts it in the same pool.
- The main purpose of the pool is to incentivize people who genuinely create value (developers, evaluators).
- However, why are the people who join willing to do this, to pay for others' work? Because everyone is a participant in the open source ecosystem, when faced with their own profit demands and the risk of being exploited, they can ensure that others will pay for them. Therefore, "I" am also willing to use "my" money to pay for others.
- This pool forms a large bowl, this system is P.I.V.O.T.: Protocol for Information Valuation with Open-source Traceability.
- For traditional insurance pools, equal work and equal gains are fair, so traditional life insurance treats all lives equally. But for the application scenario of P.I.V.O.T., the more work, the more gains, is fair, so in P.I.V.O.T., the profits of different people grow according to the natural logarithm, some more, some less.