David, what were your thoughts ^^
I didn't know if you missed the post or not?
Hey a late reply, I was out of town for the weekend. Yeah as far as integrating the reputation system for merchants with staking and miners its not a good idea since they are two decentralized protocols done in completely different ways. So its hard to integrate the reputation system in that way per se. However, if you had a series of servers or master nodes that collected reputation data or spot prices or things like that then that might be something to look in to down the road.
Thanks for helping me understand the complexity. I see what you mean now.
I'll keep 'stewing' on the concept.