@jalcine So "web of trust" has gotten a bad rap because most people associate "web of trust" with PGP's hyper-nerds-only model. And keep in mind, we need to survive a system where there isn't a global "one true name" for every person. Ie, you shouldn't confuse me with Chris Webber the basketball player, but neither myself nor the basketball player should be able to establish a monopoly on that name. But the petnames system described in https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/petnames/draft-documents/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md is designed for this: