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Re:You Can't Refuse to Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognitio... by DANmode on Sunday November 02, 2025 @12:03AM (#45787773)
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> allows users to regain access to their funds without a traditional seed phrase by leveraging trusted contacts (guardians) and a predefined recovery protocol. If a user loses access, they coordinate with a quorum of these guardians, who each provide a piece of the necessary information to restore

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Re:You Can't Refuse to Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognitio... by justinclift on Sunday November 02, 2025 @01:24AM (#45788008)
> they coordinate with a quorum of these guardians

Hmmm, that sounds like it would fail outright in some severe edge cases.

For example mass casualty events (fire, earthquake, war, etc) that only leaves a few survivors.

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Re:You Can't Refuse to Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognitio... by DANmode on Sunday November 02, 2025 @04:06AM (#45788897)
Definitely.

Those events require special government attention and cost anyway.

Getting Grandma's taxes paid? Not so much. Or: shouldn't!

(The idea is to remove as much user and support burden as possible, not solve societies woes, haha)

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