Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci...
by jurynulifcation on Sunday July 09, 2023 @01:16AM
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The wallet ID and public, immutable transaction logs still allows for entity resolution. There is, of course, a limit to the entity resolution that can be thus performed... much like there is with Web2 advertisers. In fact, it is the same limit. That limit is the ability of the user to prevent the system from resolving their identity based on their activities within the system. I'd dare say that it's probably even easier to dodge ER today than it would be in some hypothetical mega-dystopia where literally any blockchain is the default currency paradigm.
With the Ethereum approach, you can control this data about yourself. For example, with zero-knowledge proofs you could prove to a service that "I am over 18 and an US resident with a valid phone number" without sending any actual information about yourself to that party. Twitter shouldn't need your phone number. It just needs to know that you have one.
Logging in with your Google account everywhere is convenient because it contains all kinds of facts about you. But you have no control over what's done with that data, either by Google or the service you're logging into. With "Log in wit Ethereum" you could get the same conveniences, but you still own your data and have full control over what's being done with it or who can access which parts of it.