Virtual Pseudonym Parties are based on the idea of Offline Pseudonym Parties, published by Bryan Ford and MIT back in 2007, and moves the pseudonym event into the virtual space, using telepresence such

The pseudonym parties last 15 minutes, and Ethereum only does 10-15 transactions per second, roughly 9000 transactions during the pseudonym event. New blockchains like the Parity Polkadot Platform (PPP)

The anti-bot deposits increase the cost of attacking the POI network. The bots need to control a majority of a group to be able to verify one another, the pseudonym events use a point-system where 3 nyms

I've added some deposit penalties to the POI system. Two separate ones. Protect against small-scale attacks First, unverified users loose their deposit, and it is given to all verified POI users that month.

The PseudonymRound contract (previously named contract Registration) schedules each step of the POI test net 24 hour cycle, so that certain functions can only be called at specific time-periods. register()

Re-blogged from where I published this in april 2016. The project is on hold, waiting for to upgrade to time-based scheduling. The alarm service currently only does block.number based scheduling. Time-based