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		lioeters on March 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Future of the Monetary System [pdf] Maybe you can prove your identity and humanity (!) with some kind of a distributed immutable ledger. ;)

JP_Watts on March 16, 2024 | [–]

One of the features of asymmetric key cryptography is that you can only prove that you're the same person (private key).

throwawayqqq11 on March 16, 2024 | [–]

Nope. Identity management needs a central authority. This will be implemented in web5.0 then.

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