blog · 9 long-form posts · 10 companion decks
Writing on trust-native infrastructure.
Opinionated, peer-reviewed, primary-source-cited. Each post
comes with a full slide deck you can flip through in the
browser or download as .pptx. Topics span
consensus theory, reputation systems, AI agent identity, media
provenance, scientific reproducibility, and more.
The Whistleblower Channel
*Selective disclosure plus cryptographic credibility plus trust-graph vouching is the architecture modern whistleblower platforms actually need.*
Carbon Credits Are Being Gamed
*Trust-anchored provenance fixes the voluntary carbon market's phantom-credit problem.*
Clinical Trial Data Integrity
*How signed event streams replace ALCOA+ paper-trail compliance, and why FDA inspectors will prefer them.*
The Third-Party Risk Management Nightmare
*Every CISO is answering vendor questionnaires. The answers are lies. Here's the architecture that fixes it.*
Deepfakes Are Trust's Endgame
*Why C2PA is necessary but insufficient, and what the full defense architecture actually looks like.*
The Reproducibility Crisis Needs Tamper-Evident Peer Review
*Why 39% of psychology studies replicate, why 70% of researchers have failed to reproduce a colleague's work, and how signed attestation chains fix what traditional peer review can't.*
The AI Agent Identity Crisis
*Why every autonomous AI action needs a cryptographic trust chain, and why OAuth was never the right abstraction.*
Proof of Trust vs Nakamoto, BFT, FBA, and DAG Consensus
*Why relational trust graphs outperform global consensus for the 95% of real-world applications that aren't moving billions of dollars between mutually-untrusting strangers.*
Relativistic Ratings: The End of Review Spam and the Social Science of Personal Reputation
*Why the five-star average is a fiction, what six decades of social-psychology research say about how trust actually propagates, and how relativistic ratings solve review spam as a side effect of getting the math right.*
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