http://community.blockcerts.org/t/response-to-blockchain-blo...
“It’s interesting that he focuses on blockchain for identity management, which Blockcerts doesn’t even do.
However, DIDs, which can improve the ability of individuals to own/control their identity, will feature blockchain-based method specs.”
Developers can use Blockcerts to build apps that create, issue, view, and verify blockchain credentials for academic, professional, and civic purposes (e.g. University degrees, trade certifications, state licensure, etc.). The project uses Merkle trees for batch issuance while supporting individual certificate expiration and multi-party revocation. The MIT Media Lab Learning Initiative and...
Digital Certificates Project http://certificates.media.mit.edu
What we learned from designing an academic certificates system on the blockchain https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/what-we-learned-from-design...
A DSM for Achievement https://medium.com/learning-machine-blog/a-dsm-for-achieveme...
The Learning Machine blog https://medium.com/learning-machine-blog
Perverse incentives is a great point.