But … I'm Giszmo=Leo Wandersleb with a registered business, zillions of ways to contact me etc. If I want to get to the point where people give me $10000, going through the OTC and *trade* is pointless. I don't trade, I write software and OTC is a trading platform so I will mostly find traders there and changing 1.01Ƀ for 1Ƀ to gain ratings is kind of stupid and mostly done be scammers, don't you think so?
There's a few important points here. One is that having a GPG signature of record means that
we can identify it was in fact you, =Leo Wandersleb, that said something. That's not often important, but when it is then it's very important.
Wrong! What GPG signature actually gives you, is that someone, who told you at some earlier point in time that he is Leo, has access to that same GPG key and can use it. This is all you get form GPG. You do not get persons true identity (real name etc) nor any proof, that you are actually communicating with that same person you started out with.
Do not get me wrong, GPG is great stuff and is very useful.
Until there is no PKI, with its certificate authority (CA) etc, all you can say for sure is: "Yes, the
same key is/was used."
Yes, there is a good chance that he is the same guy, but what you can NOT say is who (person) is at the other end of that communication.
Same key - yes
Same person - no.
and one huge LOL must go for the following:
Another is that the WOT isn't just used for trading bitcoins OTC. In order to list a security on MPEx you have to be in the WOT, for instance.
In order for people to sue you through the ROTA you have to be in the WOT. Your entire existence pretty much is that WOT handle - nobody cares you've got a registered business; it costs fifty bucks to register an LLC and you usually can't productively sue one anyway (hence the LLC in the name). Nobody cares you can be contacted a zillion ways, I can pick up the phone book and contact a zillion people right now, what's that do.
What matters is your WOT handle. How long you've had it, who says they trust you by rating you there, who you're connected with.
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