Justus Ranvier [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-09-15 📝 Original message:On 09/15/2014 03:08 PM, ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-09-15
📝 Original message:On 09/15/2014 03:08 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Such guidelines are a perfect example of why PGP WoT is useless and
> stupid geek wanking.
>
> A person's behavioural signature is what is relevant. We know how
> Satoshi coded and wrote. It was the online Satoshi with which we
> interacted. The online Satoshi's PGP signature would be fine...
> assuming he established a pattern of use.

I wrote up an example of how the WoT and the behavior signature might be
combined via a game:

http://bitcoinism.blogspot.ch/2013/09/building-pgp-web-of-trust-that-people.html

tl;dr: "Identity" is not a name - it's a set of shared experiences with
other people. Identity systems that want to be successful should focus
on those shared experiences rather than names.

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