I don’t see how we make much headway in decentralized identity if it is still so precarious to lose my wallet or near impossible to regain a lost or stolen wallet. If you can steal the wallet that holds my soulbound NFT, what’s the point of that fancy NFT?

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imo our fear of holding an asset personally is to blame vs a corporation to own it on our behalf because it is “professional” and “regulated”. that you can always call someone. a secure multi factor auth system can solve this too, same way atms replaced tellers.

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I like this take, although I think convenience will almost always trump philosophy.