Ethereum

People throwing around "proof of personhood" like it's a problem that has already been solved, or is trivially solved.

I can't shake the feeling we've done our people wrong by letting this stuff slide.

Is it too late to adopt a culture of being specific about the solutions we're referring to?

I saw the best minds of my generation certain they could solve really hard problems if they could just verify people on the internet first, inadvertently choosing a harder problem as their adversary.

co founder of @metamask . Making computers behave for us.

I've been suggesting an approach to solving basically the same category of problems that doesn't require global purity tests for years. One simple intro:

I've been suggesting an approach to solving basically the same category of problems that doesn't require global purity tests for years. One simple intro: https://medium.com/capabul/grassroots-insurance-8b353a1670f6

It's not a coincidence that this kind of thing can be implemented using gator.metamask.io

A lot of work went into paving these foundations. A lot of alpha for those who figure it out.

https://warpcast.com/danfinlay/0x3a0a5b03

I am guilty of this. The reason for imprecision is that I don't know what will work in practice.
See Vitalik's take that multiple PoP solutions can complement each other.
Gitcoin Passport's approach follows this: Let users decide how to prove their personhood.

Or instead of hedging solutions because we know none of them work, we can choose solutions that are correct by construction but don’t have strict humanity requirements.

Or instead of hedging solutions because we know none of them work, we can choose solutions that are correct by construction but don’t have strict humanity requirements. https://warpcast.com/danfinlay/0x2764ba64

I am guilty of this. The reason for imprecision is that I don't know what will work in practice.
See Vitalik's take that multiple PoP solutions can complement each other.
Gitcoin Passport's approach follows this: Let users decide how to prove their personhood.
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html

Yeah, every time someone tries to define a term for their approach to something, 50 VC backed projects try to appropriate the term.￼

Our industry does have a semantics problem. Another one that is wildly thrown around is around chain abstraction. Solutions that are live generally work on different parts of the stack and are fundamentally solving one aspect of the issues.