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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/technology/own-your-identity https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/technology/own-your... Meanwhile Microsoft is bu
by wickoff 7y ago
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/technology/own-your-identity https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/technology/own-your...
Meanwhile Microsoft is building a distributed system on top of Bitcoin to help people get rid of passwords and take ownership of their data and identity.
The protocol is blockchain agnostic, the only requirement is a public blockhain, they're using Bitcoin because it's the most secure one.
They've calculated that when batching transactions they could give an globally verifiable identity to every person on the planet using only a tiny fraction of Bitcoin's 2MB~ every 10 minutes blockspace. The users of the system would have no clue that they're using Bitcoin, they would download an app that just works.
If public Blockchains end up being massively adopted it's going to through Layer 2 protocols like Microsoft DID or the Lightning Network that barely touch the actual blockchain layer because blockchains don't scale.
- lostmsu 7y agoAre you sure about Bitcoin? Last time I've been to some Microsoft talk about blockchain, they used ethereum.
- wickoff 7y agoThis project is using Bitcoin. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Toward-scalable-decentralized-identifier-systems/ba-p/560168 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Director... MS has an Azure service that allows people to spin up private Ethereum blockchains, but they don't have any projects that utilize public Ethereum network.