
S02E16 Pippellia – Reputation Without a Kill Switch
By Shawn Yeager
Ep. 16 · Aired Dec 18, 2025 · 1h 8m · Last boosted Mar 18, 2026
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“Web of Trust is any network of relationship where trust is distributed and emergent—it's not imposed by someone else.” Pip builds the infrastructure that makes decentralized reputation actually work. While platforms like Twitter sell verification for $8, he's applying Google's PageRank algorithm to Nostr—and giving it away for free. EPISODE SUMMARY Right now, if you want to know whether an account is real or a bot, you're trusting Twitter or Meta to tell you. That model is failing—platforms can't stop spam, won't stop scams that pay for ads, and increasingly demand full KYC just to pa...
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Long overdue listening to this one. Great show
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Wow, what an interesting and immaculately crafted episode. Your questions and the dialogue that arose as a result of them really crystallized my understanding of reputation and web of trust concepts. Pure Bitcoin. I’d say pure gold but that metaphor is so 2008. This content is fantastic @Shawn





























