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> only centralized webs of trust work

How can you claim that? Looking at most tech we have today, it becomes readily apparent that most technology needs multiple iterations before achieving wide adoption. Web of trust is no exception.

The lack of a widely-adopted precedent implying that some tech is forever poor is a sloppy conclusion to make.

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The lack of a widely-adopted precedent implying that some tech is forever poor is a sloppy conclusion to make.

Yes, but decentralized webs of trust have been tried before, and the "flat" ones with no centralization fade away or become hipster tchotkes. I think it's a valuable question to ask. Have we done the analyses for why the previous ones didn't work?

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