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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by treyd on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @05:33PM (#44056509)
You don't need a blockchain for that, just cryptographic signatures and PKI. The EU is implementing a system for national IDs that would enable this, and could be done with perfect privacy through zero-knowledge proofs.
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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by tlb on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @05:54PM (#44056675)
Yes, if every government was reliably incorruptible, they could also work together to build a global human verification network.

I predict that Worldcoin will get it done first, and will be more dependable than most countries. But it could turn out otherwise. In the end, services that need humanity verification will have multiple provider options and the market will decide.

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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by sigmaisaletter on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:25AM (#44060955)
Worldcoin is and always will be opt-in.

Government solutions will be opt-out, and only in the most tedious way: Leaving the country, burning your passport and becoming a stateless person. Not recommended.

If there ever was a moat, government has it.

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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by mgiampapa on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @05:50PM (#44056646)
That doesn't really scale to the 3rd world as a form of identity validation. I'm sure there is more than one way to do it, I'm just saying it's a way to do it.
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