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>Something like World ID will eventually exist It's called a national ID with an eID feature and I've been using it to verify my age when I order booze online
by Barrin92 2y ago
>Something like World ID will eventually exist
It's called a national ID with an eID feature and I've been using it to verify my age when I order booze online for like a decade. It cost 5 bucks extra when I renewed my id the last time. What do I need an eyeball scanning orb and a crypto coin for something that every developed or for that matter half developed government invented in like 2010?
- Terr_ 2y agoI agree that the crypto/blockchain angle is stupid, since it only makes sense in a completely hypothetical future where somehow governments ceased to exist or don't have identity management as one of their core functions. (For some people, this is less of a system-design oversight and more of an agenda.) That said, there's always potential to improve privacy with some clever algorithms: A lot of naive approaches would make it too easy for a government or vendor to have lots of information about your activities that they don't really need or deserve to have.