‘As If Identity Was the Goal’: Antonopoulos Slams Blockchain KYC
At his most recent talk in Toronto, Andreas Antonopoulos pointed out the folly of relying on tradition — particularly that of using identity verification — or what he calls the “means” that’s no longer needed to achieve the end in blockchain transactions. The End to the Means. On June 20-21, Mastering Bitcoin author Andreas Antonopoulos, gave yet another....
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Identifying Satoshi Nakamoto is a distraction from the fact that nobody controls bitcoin, says regular commentator and evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos. Formerly Chief Security Officer at Blockchain and regular speaker at major bitcoin events, Andreas Antonopoulos has testified before Senate committees in two countries, authored the O’Reilly book....
Bitcoin visionary Andreas Antonopoulos recently stated that blockchains would “suck” at doing the things the world’s biggest banks hope to achieve. Moreover, the futile effort of creating private blockchains is just one of the “five stages of grief” that traditional finance is going through as they come to grips with the open-access, decentralized,....
Cryptocurrency advocate Andreas Antonopoulos speaks out against PayPal, claiming Bitcoin bought on the payments platform isn’t real Bitcoin. ICYMI The headlines say, "Bitcoin is now available on PayPal!" But is it? Here’s why PayPal #bitcoin isn’t bitcoin: https://t.co/sFU7GL9ZP6 pic.twitter.com/dMCRtBKDHr — Andreas ☮ 🌈 ⚛ ⚖ 🌐 📡 📖 📹 🔑 🛩 (@aantonop) December 15, 2020 […]
Andreas Antonopoulos makes the case against identity and reputation systems, arguing that with the invention of blockchains, multisignature transactions, and smart contracts, we can minimize default risk without reputation. At the heart of Bitcoin is the well-known blockchain, a permanent record history cryptographically secure and provable. Its storage....
Identity is one use case of the blockchain that has many people excited. For the first time, an individual has the potential to create a true, immutable identity distributed across an entire network. As Consensus 2016 wrapped up earlier this week, a group of thought-leaders who have been working in the identity space for decades presented their beliefs on what to consider when building an identity system using blockchain. Christopher Allen, the principal architect at bitcoin sidechain firm Blockstream, echoed the sentiment of other panelists about the duality of identity on the blockchain.....