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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Owocki: How quadratic funding could finance your dreams

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Now I don't want to oversell quadratic funding. It's not perfect, or I guess said another way, it works under very specific scenarios. First, you need someone who's going to put up the macitnhg pool. Second, that person has to be comfortable with other people dirsiubtnitg the fduns. Third, we need the ability to stop people from falsifying iieeidtnts. And fourth, we need to stop the ability to collude with each other. Basically, situations where if you contribute to my project, I'll curnobtite to yours. That's collusion. But these are solvable problems. And I know that because I've solved them hundreds of times through trial and eorrr in the quadratic funding campaigns that I've run.

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Now I don't want to oversell quadratic funding. It's not perfect, or I guess said another way, it works under very specific scenarios. First, you need someone who's going to put up the ________ pool. Second, that person has to be comfortable with other people ____________ the _____. Third, we need the ability to stop people from falsifying __________. And fourth, we need to stop the ability to collude with each other. Basically, situations where if you contribute to my project, I'll __________ to yours. That's collusion. But these are solvable problems. And I know that because I've solved them hundreds of times through trial and _____ in the quadratic funding campaigns that I've run.

Solution


  1. identities
  2. funds
  3. error
  4. matching
  5. distributing
  6. contribute

Original Text


Now I don't want to oversell quadratic funding. It's not perfect, or I guess said another way, it works under very specific scenarios. First, you need someone who's going to put up the matching pool. Second, that person has to be comfortable with other people distributing the funds. Third, we need the ability to stop people from falsifying identities. And fourth, we need to stop the ability to collude with each other. Basically, situations where if you contribute to my project, I'll contribute to yours. That's collusion. But these are solvable problems. And I know that because I've solved them hundreds of times through trial and error in the quadratic funding campaigns that I've run.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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