Legal Identity for All: Can Bitcoin’s Blockchain Rise to the Challenge?
The United Nations aims to make it possible for all people to have a legal identity, including birth registration. This is one of the targets under the overarching goal of eradicating extreme poverty for all people everywhere by the year 2030. But providing an ID for everyone is a tremendous challenge. That is why experts are looking at Bitcoin’s....
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The anonymity of bitcoin transactions has been a challenge for financial regulation. But it has also been a challenge for those users who wish to hide their identity. Using the same Bitcoin address: not recommended. The only reason to provide a different bitcoin address for each transaction is to protect your anonymity. If you reuse the same address, your entire transaction history can be instantly available to anyone simply by logging on to blockchain.info Your transaction can be traced and anyone can calculate how much money you have and how you spend it. On the contrary, with the use of....
ConsenSys, the NYC-based venture production studio, announced yesterday an important partnership with Microsoft, the American multinational technology company, and Blockstack Labs, a venture that is also building blockchain-based software, to create an 'open-source, self-sovereign, blockchain-based identity system'. The companies are joining forces to tackle several identity and reputation problems outlined in the ID2020 conference, the event was held in the New York City branch of the United Nations. According to ConsenSys’s press release UN members, private companies, and government....