Feedback Requested: Bounties for attestations

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TAP will be more self sustaining and useful if there is an incentive to provide attestations. This incentive can be in the form of reputation that you earn for providing valuable attestations, but it can also be economically driven, in the form of Bounties. A bounty would work as follows:

• Whoever verifies and contract can optionally provide a bounty for providing attestations for that contract.
• Whoever wants to use the contract can optionally add to the existing bounty.
• Bounties would be distributed to attestations at certain time milestones depending on quality of the attestation as deemed by the community through voting, weighted by reputation of the voters and authors of the attestation.

The final statement is easier said than done. It's hard to come up with a scheme for reputation, voting, and distribution that isn't gameable. We welcome input on using any existing on chain contracts that handle reputation and voting protocols, or pointers to specific designs that work well. Steem protocol, actually does a good first pass job at this, however implementing all of the complexities that it has accounted for is well beyond scope for a first pass alpha of TAP.