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Re:Who Watches the Watchmen? Sybil-Resistance in Proof of Pe... by macieklaskus on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:50PM (#24415442)
This paper is really about solving a fundamental problem in decentralized identity, which is to combine the characteristics of self-sovereignty, privacy and Sbil-resistance, which seems to exclude each other.

I previously proposed formalizing this problem as Decentralized Identity Trilemma (http://maciek.blog/dit).

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Re:Who Watches the Watchmen? Sybil-Resistance in Proof of Pe... by dane-pgp on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:09PM (#24416567)
The paper even references that post directly in footnote 8:

> Those three requirements, sybil resistance, self-sovereignty and privacy-reservation, compose the "Decentralized Identity Trilemma".[7][8]

> [8] ‘Decentralized Identity Trilemma’, Maciek, 2019.

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Re:Who Watches the Watchmen? Sybil-Resistance in Proof of Pe... by shanev on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:15PM (#24416617)
I was mulling over this exact issue the other day but couldn't find the words to express it. Thank you for this.
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