Sign in with an Ethereum address is what OpenID wanted to be. Turns out bootstrapping an entire ecosystem with user-controlled money was the key ingredient.

Sign in with an Ethereum address is what OpenID wanted to be. Turns out bootstrapping an entire ecosystem with user-controlled money was the key ingredient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID

I haven't followed OpenID since v2. it had potential with v1.1 and the SReg and Attribute Exchange extensions. unfortunately, they were only extensions and therefore not mandatory. when v2 was released and big players like Yahoo adopted it, everyone wanted to be an OpendID provider (=control identities)

ENS is actually funding a publicly available OIDC server for Sign-In with Ethereum (managed by SpruceID). Great way to support bring your own keys with less migration efforts.

Steven Wolfram has this great quote which is related, “sometimes a problem is easier to solve when you consider the entire universe”

I think about this *a lot*. I do think that OAuth2 and OIDC are fantastic protocols and shouldn't be shunned. 

However seems like the time is now for "OAuth3", where user data is owned by individuals (key holders, with wallets), as opposed to google/facebook/etc...

It's a super exciting space!