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> With blockchain, users can maintain a consistent identity across the metaverse simply by verifying their wallet address, which nobody else would have access t
by giantrobot 5y ago
> With blockchain, users can maintain a consistent identity across the metaverse simply by verifying their wallet address, which nobody else would have access to.
This can be done with boring old encryption keys and signatures, not stupid blockchain needed. Even then it doesn't solve the avatar problem. If I make an avatar that looks just like someone else (or their avatar) it doesn't matter if people can verify someone's identity. I can effectively impersonate anyone I want if I can freely adjust an avatar. Unless you can manage to create a truly effective "avatar hash" there's no way to keep me from using someone else's model.
- oneoff786 5y agoAvatar hashing is basically impossible. The uniqueness of avatars isn’t the same as distinctiveness. Your avatar with a single hair removed looks exactly the same but has a different hash.
- moltke 5y agoYou barely need crypto. Ticket authentication would be enough.
- Smaug123 5y ago> there's no way to keep me from using someone else's model Indeed it seems to me desirable that I could use someone else's model. The obvious solution to spoofing identity is "press a button to view metadata of what I'm looking at"; the apparent visual world is hardly the only layer of reality we need to experience in VR.