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   by hGkXBvR 4y ago

   The implication of zero knowledge proofs is that no private data need be shared. The “zk-something” you and Molly both brush over translates literally to “verifying knowledge without any private information having to be shared or checked.”
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   by hGkXBvR 4y ago

   All messages on a blockchain ledger are signed messages. A practical example is signing the message “I, user 1234, am sending 1000 USDC to user 5678”
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   by hGkXBvR 4y ago

   How many times do we have to keep trying to make cars happen, we have perfectly good horse-drawn carriages! The constitution DAO was pretty successful application of the tech. Within a week, they went from idea to public fundraiser, raised
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   by hGkXBvR 4y ago

   The whole post has a general tone of hand-waving away any decentralized idea as dystopian or a privacy nightmare, without taking any look at the current dystopian landscape of Google and Apple account based identity. It’s also pretty hard t
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   by hGkXBvR 4y ago

   There are two interesting aspects of self-sovereign identity that are not worth hand-waiving away as dystopian: - it provides identity tools that use standards that span across geographical and platform boundaries. this is a different form
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   by hGkXBvR 4y ago

   You fall into the same trap that the parent commenter points out. Rarely does a serious web3 project aim to put everything on a blockchain. But something like a Kickstarter-ish crowdfund system could be using a blockchain contract to hand