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 t

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?