Since CRC is meant to be used as money, the usual rules about the malicious use of today’s major currencies also apply to CRC. This might mean knowingly providing false information about one’s balance or that of others, scamming other users, etc.
Circles is meant to become a currency that is fairly and equally created by humans that are active in the Circles economy. As such, the basic principles to assess the integrity of a user’s (or a group of user’s) actions are this:
1. One human, one account: On Circles, every active human participant should, at all times, have one and only one personal account that is used to create CRC.
2. The human behind the account cannot change: An account associated with one human should never become associated with another human. Otherwise users might end up trusting people they don’t intend to trust.
3. CRC creation is exclusive to humans: The basic monetary policy of Circles is that the total supply of CRC should be roughly proportional to the number of active humans in the economy. As such, only humans should be able to increase the supply of CRC. Non-humans, such as institutions or groups of people or AIs should use Group and Organisation accounts.
Behaviour that is incompatible with these principles is considered malicious or dishonest and the Circles team will actively work on identifying such behaviour and excluding malicious users from the network.
What constitutes malicious or dishonest behavior?
This article describes what the application considers detrimental for the overall Circles economy, hence why gets downgraded.