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>In order for SocialCoin to work, we need to figure out a way to create a decentralized ID system that doesn’t rely on government issuance like a Driver’s Licen
by oakwhiz 12y ago
>In order for SocialCoin to work, we need to figure out a way to create a decentralized ID system that doesn’t rely on government issuance like a Driver’s License or a Passport. This is currently an unsolved problem.
>One possible way to do this is to have there be agents in the SocialCoin Distributed Autonomous Corporations who a user would schedule appointments with.
I can imagine these "agents" colluding together to prevent people from receiving their basic income unless they receive a cut for themselves.
- prawn 12y agoWhy not automate the process of iris scanning somewhat by having monitored booths or rooms. They could be monitored by cameras and a local or remote human presence that can intervene but has limited communication abilities to prevent potential for bribery? Unless a basic income is global, immigration problems are only going to get more difficult.
- jedunnigan 12y agoAny sort of "decentralized" network of autonomous agents acting at the behest of identity verification would be extremely easy to game. There must be some incentive for these verifiers to act as an agents of the protocol, so you would assume they are compensated with SocialCoin. This is an incentive that is easy and rational to abuse. Syndicates of agents will most likely pop up and commoditize iris scans or whatever the verification procedure requires. They'd quickly spoil the payouts for people without massive numbers of identities under their control. Not only are they paid to sign people up, but they also can MITM payouts from unsuspecting individuals.
- monkeycantype 12y agoI think eventually we will learn to do this by analysing a person's connection to a network. Today a spy/criminal can gain a new identity by acquiring a fake passport, what if verification of identity came not from a document, but from an analysis of your relationships on a blockchain, who had signed that they know and trust you, and when had they done it, and who had signed that they trusted them. A trusted identity would become something that took years to build. I work with a small team of developers, drip by drip I'm trying to convince the other three this is what we should be working on.
- dllthomas 12y agoI've long been quite interested in whether there's a meaningful way to use WoT approaches to demonstrate uniqueness of an identity.