>By ensuring that nobody will bother using your service? Sure, I guess. You're begging the question (i.e. whether or not Urbit ID would succeed). Besides, Urbi

>By ensuring that nobody will bother using your service? Sure, I guess. You're begging the question (i.e. whether or not Urbit ID would succeed). Besides, Urbit ID needn't be forced on users, it could be offered side-by-side other options. >Besides, what you're proposing is essentially the same as "charging for account creation", but with extra steps. There are several major differences, the most obvious of which is that an Urbit ID user would not have to pay to create an account. This is because the Urbit ID could be tied to many different accounts across the internets. In other words, a person could pay for one Urbit ID, and then be able to comment on many on-line internet journals using that single Urbit ID.