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The author and everyone commenting is making a categorical error here: A wallet is not your user account. A wallet holds many private keys. Each private key ca
by douglaswlance 5y ago
The author and everyone commenting is making a categorical error here:
A wallet is not your user account. A wallet holds many private keys. Each private key can be used as a user account. You can have an unlimited number of private keys.
That means that you're only tracked as much as you want.
Also, there are private chains you can use today. And they're only going to get better. We're talking about cryptography here. It will be private if you want it to be.
- cuteboy19 5y agoQuestion: why do we even need blockchain for this? Is this not basic public key cryptography?
- douglaswlance 5y agoBecause blockchain protocols allow us to generate consensus at scale. They use cryptography to do so. That's why we call them crypto-currencies.
- cuteboy19 5y agoConsensus is not necessary to establish identity. Normal cryptographic primitives are sufficient for all identity schemes. Blockchain is just completely unrelated to the "one login all websites" idea.
- douglaswlance 5y agoIf you want to store user data with consensus, in a tamper-proof way that can be universally accessed you need to use blockchains. Or invent a new technology.