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As far as I can tell, there is no technological aspect here. It doesn't offer any solution to providing decentralised, unique identity. It just points out syste

As far as I can tell, there is no technological aspect here. It doesn't offer any solution to providing decentralised, unique identity. It just points out systems with central authority that provide unique identity, and the blockchain, which provides distributed identity verification without ensuring any unbreakable connection between one person and one identity. Then it seems to indicate that the two should somehow be mashed together to create distributed, unique identities, without explaining how. I don't see how it would be possible to prevent a single person from creating multiple identities in a distributed system.

woah 12y ago
You could easily create multiple identities, but they would not be worth much. By somehow encoding all the relationships of trust that a person has had throughout their lives, it would become possible for another person in the same, or connected, trust networks to verify the identity and the trust placed in it. New identities would simply have no trust, and would be quite worthless without years of normal life behind them.
- lukifer 12y ago
  There might be incentives, though, for groups to collude to create artificial identities in their networks, as a form of gerrymandering.
  - Turukawa 12y ago
    There's a major risk to that ... one person in the group gets discredited and that compromises everyone in the group.