upon trusting group, avatar implicitly trusts all the group members trustGroupMembers()

[benjaminbollen]

During planning discussions we had considered a user story:

• should an avatar be able to trust indirectly all the avatars a group trusts. This could be a separate trustGroupMembers()*

*(it is open whether the members of a group are the ones a group trusts... but we can take that separate from this issue)

So after thinking briefly on this, I don't think there is a clean or gas-afforable way to include this into the architecture. To elaborate, when evaluating a path transfer, evaluating the direct edge we can do through a storage lookup; but evaluating whether there is an indirect set of edges (over one or more groups) we cannot reasonably do in the contract code upon executing a path.

So if we'd really want such a feature, we'd have to change the path data format and have the solver provide the additional evidence that such an indirect trust relation exists. That is possible, but I don't think it has merit.

I don't think it has merit, because this function is already covered by the group circle itself: people that are members of the group can mint their personal circles for group circles, and if i trust the group, and the group circles, I in effect trust the circles of that person indirectly.

PS: just making this issue to have a record of concluding why not to do this discussion point

[benjaminbollen]

moving this to resolved