# kaal:claim:3266953-031

**Claim.** The Web of Trust is only trustworthy where the service is not valuable, such as essentially free PGP email, because only then is it not worth creating sockpuppet accounts.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- services with negligible economic value at stake

**Source quote.**

> So the only time WoT works is when the service is not valuable, such as PGP (email which is essentially free). Then it's not worth it to create sock puppet accounts, so in that case you can trust the WoT network.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Sockpuppet Protocol, page 21

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

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**Failure mode.** web of trust breaks under economic value  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** reputation

**Keywords.** web-of-trust, pgp, sockpuppet, value-at-stake

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782210-011
- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782210-008

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