Karma can be earned by completing jobs on the todo list or getting things for people of their personal wishlist.
Jobs on the todo list can have a karma bounty assigned to them, more than one person can donate karma to a job’s bounty. on completion of a job, the completor receives that karma + 1 karma for completing the job
karma affects how much control a person can exert over nodes – it takes a lot of karma to remove a node that you did not create.
the amount of karma in the system is finate to avoid inflation karma can be traded on the black market for things outside of the todo list by somehow sending it to a person.