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It's not quite "identity" that we need to verify, but rather uniqueness. Centralized approaches are theoretically easy; I'm not sure there isn't a possible dec
by dllthomas 9y ago
It's not quite "identity" that we need to verify, but rather uniqueness. Centralized approaches are theoretically easy; I'm not sure there isn't a possible decentralized solution. The one proposed does seem to be a partial solution, but probably not enough of one.
- cdancette 9y agoI agree that the proposed solution seems not enough, but I'm impatient to see what will happen when they try it out. Maybe the trust chain will work out
- baddox 9y agoI don’t think you need an explicit decentralized solution. I think the individual incentives are such that this type of scam is unlikely, because it’s probably prohibitively difficult to maintain two significant non-overlapping social graphs. I explained this more in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15898504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15898504
- dllthomas 9y agoI followed up over there :)