How OpenLedger Works: The "Attribution Economy"
I keep coming to OpenLedger because it does not feel fully resolved. At first I thought of OpenLedger as a way to track who contributed to AI data and give them rewards. It seemed like a way to make it clear who did what. But the more I looked at OpenLedger the more it seemed like a system for storing memories than a place to buy and sell things.
I thought about how we're moving from giving credit to people who contribute to AI data to thinking about memories as a kind of economy. If we record everything then nothing is neutral anymore. Storing all that information becomes a problem. Keeping it becomes expensive. Even the memories that AI systems have start to seem like baggage that we have to take care of check and sometimes get rid of on purpose.
This is where the idea of controlled forgetting starts to seem like a part of the economy rather than just a choice we make. Forgetting is not about something being gone. It is about paying for it to expire. A system like OpenLedger would have to figure out how to price things that disappear not things that are made. That would make it harder for things to last forever.
I kept wondering who would actually pay for this system to work. The people who build things with OpenLedger might use it once. The people who help make it work and contribute to it need to be rewarded over and over. That is where the OPEN token has to be more, than something people speculate about.. Giving credit to people who contribute is a complicated problem and it is always cheaper to fake it than to make sure everyone is doing what they say they are. The market is asking a question: who pays to stop remembering?