Multi-Purpose Trust Network

[sanity]

A decentralized web of trust system that can accommodate many different types of trust relationship, including but not limited to:

• I trust this identity not to send spam
• I trust that this identity belongs to this person
• I trust that this compute node will accurately perform a requested computation

[ple1n]

I think this brings marginal benefit. Web-of-trust is not that useful, especially when used alone. A mechanism to encourage cooperation/compliance should increase the stake, raising the cost of bad behavior.

Biological identities and the permanent loss of reputation is one thousand times more substantial than web-of-trust on an (semi) anon network.

Therefore, tokenomics-based solutions are an great improvement as they can create precisely-priced, massive stakes, usable in an anonymous setup.

WoT with small stakes can only do small things, basic prevention of DDoS and such. It's not worth spending too much time on this.

It's more like a means to exploit existing information to maximally slash malicious nodes' reputation. It works when there is large amounts of information available, which isn't present in Locutus and it shouldn't be, for anonymity/privacy purposes.

Partly It's a shared ban-list, while in a centralized situation there is a single source of truth for ban-list, since claims by other nodes are subject to doubt.

In a reddit like social network with pseudo-anonymous identities WoT performs fine. It needs niche cryptography in cases where identities are completely ephemeral and anonymous