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Where will your credibility come from?
Alice receives a message from Bob. It says "You're amazing, we're nothing but mammals, let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel", and it also says "I, Mallory, hereby certify that Bob only talked about mammals once this week -- to you".
Why should Alice believe you?
Things like that are technically possible (e.g. cryptographic proofs-of-work) but Alice is unlikely to verify your proofs herself and why should she trust Mallory, anyway?
I think if we had a nice professional website, with a link to a long description of how it all works that people won't read anyway, they will tend to trust us.
Especially if we use math.
Seconded - once you get as far as people trusting you enough to post their personal information and possibly pay you for the service, they're not still suspecting you of letting people spam you with "certified" non-spam.