Open, Decentralized, Identity Ecosystem

Re:Open, Decentralized, Identity Ecosystem by jchrisa on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @01:39PM (#19370824)

I think this is a great problem statement. The dynamic at play is that wallets/identities should be free to make, and expensive to lose. That is, the activity your identity participates in, is what gives it weight. So there will be incentive to sign public objects as well as to collaborate via encryption. An identity that has a history of interactions with other identities is harder to forge. One branch of fraud prevention will be based on detecting compromised identities.

I think a web-of-trust like model, if the friction is low enough, can build an informal identity system that doesn't need to be imposed from above. Some old thoughts on the idea: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/document-coin/

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Re:Open, Decentralized, Identity Ecosystem by jchrisa on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @02:33PM (#19381899)

The identity discussed elsewhere in the thread seems to be personal identity (the kind you use for deeds and titles.) I'm mostly referring to digital identity (the kind where you manage more than one social media persona and switch between identities contextually.) Where personal identity and digital identity meet, maybe it's helpful to disambiguate which kind of identity we are talking about. Otherwise discussions can be complicated by overlapping use of the word "identity".

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