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.
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.