It's not.
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You've solved it? Several decentralized software teams I know of are struggling with it
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I think you're answering some other question
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Decentralized systems are inherently probabilistic. Identity is not.
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It is crazy to think of a future where I'm "95% likely to be me"
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Identity problems fundamentally expand to sprawling, physical infrastructure concerns. Brick-and-mortar stores expect some ID, and changing which ID they accept is multi-decades long political process, so we're stuck with phone numbers, SSNs, and byzantine DNS system forever.
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Potentially related: Very excited for someone to make this story into a new Bond movie. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/28/seven-people-keys-worldwide-internet-security-web …
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Because people usually think that identities owns you, while in reality you own identities. This confusion make them work on the wrong problem of building identity oracles and/or directories, instead of working from the axiom that a private key is an identity.
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I'd expand on this saying that Identity is often something you need to convince a court to defend, and current law views Identities as owning you and not the other way around.
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i actually worked on this ~2005 standards are great, there are so many to choose from
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