Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed by Satoshi's PGP key?

From: Justus Ranvier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:06:06 +0200

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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