> in the end, it boils down to everyone just asking to see the passport or some other government ID, or a proxy for that (credit card, library card,
with a standard on distributed identity. That doesn't answer the question. I doubled down on what OP said. So if you don't see how my response isn't a follow-up, then the three of us are talking past each other.
Correct. There is nothing "self" or "sovereign" about having your "government name" certified cryptographically by the state.
Oh, you generated your own key material all by yourself, and THEN the government signed it? That's the innovation? Who cares. There is no value.
The -only- reason anyone cares about your identity is because it's mandated to do some checks by the government. Also, to deter fraud, as mandated by your insurance companies and credit card processors.
In both cases, there are legal requirements set out that mandate what exactly you must do. Often it would be the passport, plus second source of identity, plus an address check, plus proof of liveness.
Nobody asked for an open standard. Nobody really cares about identity except for banks/financials corps.
When was the last time you woke up and felt, damn, all I wanna do is identity, identity, identity?
> When was the last time you woke up and felt, damn, all I wanna do is identity, identity, identity?
As someone who went through the clown show gauntlet of crypto scammers and charlatans as a freelancer, I’m going to have to disagree. This is going to be most useful for the crypto community, not the brick and mortar world, nor Silicon Valley or the HN community.
> in the end, it boils down to everyone just asking to see the passport or some other government ID, or a proxy for that (credit card, library card,
with a standard on distributed identity. That doesn't answer the question. I doubled down on what OP said. So if you don't see how my response isn't a follow-up, then the three of us are talking past each other.