> But at a fundamental level, why do Discord and Clubhouse need to verify my identity? Maybe not those two, but your bank does, your insurance company does, yo

> But at a fundamental level, why do Discord and Clubhouse need to verify my identity? Maybe not those two, but your bank does, your insurance company does, your employer does, your business partner does. There's a lot of places where there's trust placed in a specific citizen and their identity. The "root of trust" of being a citizen is the government, it'd be nothing new really to provide that digitally. The proof of it being doable are the governments providing electronic ID's for decade or two now. Solving those really hairy problems hundreds of millions of Americans are struggling or encumbered by daily.