https://reason.com/2023/07/28/say-goodbye-to-permissionless-travel/

This stuff is really sad.

(Note: as the article points out, the US has had a similar policy on Europeans since 2009)

Definitely want to focus more of my travel on countries that actually want people to visit them.

This entire area may be amenable to a “fintech on frontend, blockchain on backend approach” as per crypto.

Fintech on frontend: build modern user interfaces to these systems so you don’t need to keep re-entering data.

Blockchain on backend: large online communities establish crypto passport reciprocality.

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Reconceptualizing login reciprocity as passport reciprocity is useful.

For example, you can log in to MySpace nowadays with Facebook but not vice versa.

Being able to log in to GitHub with ENS — or otherwise bridge web2 and web3 credentials — is the seed of a different kind of immigration system.

That is — the entire area of passports, residency, travel, immigration, visas, identity, etc is a regulated mess.

But so was currency.

If you could get cryptopassport reciprocity between large online communities like Ethereum and Solana, like an ENS/SNS bridge, that’s a new model for diplomatic relations.

I’ve been in aviation/aerospace for a long time and I have a high conviction that it’s an industry ripe for transformation using blockchains. Other than crypto identity, there’s also the distribution of airline tickets and related offerings (~NDC), MRO spares registry, CO2 offset markets & tracking, etc.