Civic Demos Vision for Blockchain Web Login Service
Civic CEO Vinny Lingham isn't someone you'd be likely to identify as quiet. Yet, since its launch in January, the outspoken founder of the Palo Alto identity startup has been tight-lipped about his new venture, the follow up to mobile gift card service Gyft (which was sold to First Data in mid-2014). That changed today as Lingham previewed a new use case for the service today to a crowd at the Money2020 conference in Las Vegas. First described as a digital identity protection startup, Lingham showcased how users who provide Civic with information such as their Social Security number and....
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How many email account does an average person have these days? What about the number of social networks we are all part of? An average person has accounts created in at least three social networks and users two or three email ids. Apart from email and social media accounts there are many other websites that we visit on a regular basis to access resources or for entertainment. Not to forget bitcoin wallets and exchanges. A lot of these websites require the users to login to access content or to interact with the platform. As the number of applications we use increases, the number of login....