Where are all the crypto use cases?

Re:Where are all the crypto use cases? by pfraze on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:21AM (#31820193)

Sorry to make you repeat yourself, but we’re looking at DIDs and I’d like to know your arguments against them. Do you mind linking to a comment or summarizing?

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Re:Where are all the crypto use cases? by brabel on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @02:33AM (#31820609)

DIDs have nothing to do with blockchains, it's just that some people are trying to hype DIDs by artificially linking them with blockchains. They use "crypto" but the "old kind", the good one: cryptography.

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Re:Where are all the crypto use cases? by nl on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @11:11PM (#31831612)

While DIDs do not have to link to blockchains the standard itself notes:

Many—but not all—DID methods make use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) or some other form of decentralized network.[1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

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Re:Where are all the crypto use cases? by nl on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @11:30PM (#31831729)

I think it was this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29750165

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Re:Where are all the crypto use cases? by wickoff on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @02:23AM (#31820569)

Two words. Identity theft.

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Re:Where are all the crypto use cases? by gnarula on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @02:33AM (#31820611)

Could you elaborate a bit on that please? How would that pan out?

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