Identity is insecure, labor-intensive, and local.https://twitter.com/weltergeist/status/1034184853741166592 …
No. The identity biz is like micropayments, a bunch of lemmings year after year pursuing the same failed projects and unachievable goals of the prior ones, never learning from the failures, never pursuing the alternative Bitcoin did of not requiring identity in the first place.
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First-come first-serve names have a ton of problems (as we are seeing with http://bitcoin.com etc.), making them insecure for many purposes, but they can be sufficient for social networks, and secured by blockchain title (something more lightweight might also be sufficient)
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Maybe. But what I just described is a pseudonym, subject to Sybil attacks, it's way overselling it to call it an "identity".
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DIDs are not subject to this issue, as they are not intended to be friendly identifiers that are visually/inherently associated with any meat space person, org, entity, or noun: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/
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We, and other groups working in the community, believe that DIDs are a critical foundation for digital, self-owned identity. Unlike other constructs, DIDs acquire and maintain status through globally available, voluntarily signed (and revoked) relationship and factual assertions.
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When you speak negatively of digital identity pursuits here, what exactly do you mean? The technical building blocks of digital identity, like DPKI systems for IDs that can optionally be linked to signed proofs, or other, less technical/empirical aspects of identity?
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Well spoken. Very well spoken.
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Do you assume that trusted hardware will become a solved problem and a user friendly key storage will exist in the future? If not then how do private keys replace identity for the general populace? Most people I know are not technically capable of securing private keys.
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Yeah yeah. Ppl have been saying micropayments don;t work (will never work!) for decades now, and yet billions of dollars worth of micro & small transactions are processed every day in advertising, music streaming, online gaming...
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