I haven’t met anyone who is serious about decentralized identity that advocates for identity to be based or backed by national government identity systems.

I haven’t met anyone who is serious about decentralized identity that advocates for identity to be based or backed by national government identity systems. https://paper.wf/crypto-agorism/the-dangers-of-decentralized-id-systems

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There are quite a few projects obsessed with translating the information stored on ePassports into cryptographic proofs, aka verifiable credentials. It's not good news.

But perhaps more influentially, there are very many decentralized identity projects that will have similar effects emergently rather than by design.

This is probably one of the coolest pieces on digital identity I read. Thanks for sharing!