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> You could implement a weighted trust system where you're more trusted the more people trust you, and consequently if you "issue" trust it's counted as more trustworthy than issuing trust to yourself.

Nice try, but now write up your defense against a Sybil attack. Someone could play a long con, gain a lot of trust, and then cause a lot of damage.

Ultimately I think we need something like the blockchain publicly associating a domain with a private key. Namecoins I guess.




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