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Web of trust
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying web-of-trust. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3266953-028 : A Web of Trust reputation system can be gamed with sockpuppet accounts, because an attacker can behave well for a while and then transact with himself repeatedly and rate himself high to raise his rep
- 3266953-031 : 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.
- 3266953-033 : Sockpuppet accounts grow their reputation value much faster than honest users can in a Web of Trust, because sockpuppets validate each other, and the system is therefore flawed and should not be used
- 3405401-028 : Until blockchain technology was introduced via bitcoin in 2009, decentralized reputation systems mostly relied on the old and corruptible concept of the Web of Trust.
- 3411897-035 : Until blockchain technology arrived with Bitcoin in 2009, decentralized reputation systems rested on the roughly twenty five year old and corruptible concept of the Web of Trust.
- 3782210-008 : A Web of Trust style reputation ledger, in which each party rates each transaction and reputation is summed with weightings by rater reputation, will have all of its value drained by the sockpuppet at
- 3782210-011 : The Web of Trust works acceptably for low-value information transmission but should not be used for transactions involving larger wealth in the general economy, which is part of why the scheme it orig
- 4067783-035 : Proof of personhood projects such as Proof of Humanity and UBI DAO fail because they rest on web-of-trust theory, which has been proven not to work long-term given the sockpuppet attacks that are inev