There is only the illusion that it's global.
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We must be talking about two very different "identities" if you think that.
I'm talking about how people normally use the term: human-readable ways to uniquely identity people.
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Oh, so like a domain name? Then we're talking about the same thing, and Namecoin proved it can be as secure as Bitcoin.
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“Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.” ― Albert Einstein
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His "computer space" = my "online identity", and the two can be linked quite strongly.
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My brief definition: If locked up in someone else's db, or your own, it's not really mobile, so can never be global.
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Hence Namecoin, which is global and as secure as Bitcoin.
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"As secure" ..? It does square Zooko's Triangle, no doubt about that.
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Btw, where it comes to identity, there's very little you'll want to store globally, but that's for another time.
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but that's merely an identifier, not an identity - huge difference /
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