it's a secure identity system where instead of having to log into a bunch of different shit and put your data in a bunch of different places and keep it updated

it's a secure identity system where instead of having to log into a bunch of different shit and put your data in a bunch of different places and keep it updated to do your day-to-day life stuff you can do everything using publish subscribe and hold all your data in one place. Suppose you use a lot of banks (and/or your friends' personal sites), imagine being able to update your address just once and automatically push that information to all banks you're subbed to and only the banks you're subbed to and have the push still go through "immediately" (on startup) if one bank is experiencing downtime. Could be interesting. This is part of the "personal server" idea...everyone should easily be able to create a personal server that's a pure function of its event history and that is logically consistent with the network (clients, other servers, routing tables, blah blah). You can make a personal server without having to worry about downtime because your server's event history will always be consistent with the network's. Then there's a mesh routing protocol built over current infrastructure so that any identity can figure out how to contact another and have the routing be correct. Limited address space, spammers can just be blocked. That's the best I can do off the top of my head. Criticize the execution all you want but I think the idea is really interesting. Edit: imagine dealing with the fookin IRS using all this cool stuff. I can only dream