Satoshi’s Seed: Don’t Skeuomorphic Bitcoin Self-Sovereign Identities!
Recreating legacy systems on top of bitcoin is not the goal — designing to engage individuals in new ways should be.“The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.” - Hal FinneyThe internet was fundamentally designed to connect machines, not people. Over the eons of time, the intersection between the marketplace and human engagement has been where humans love to play and explore the possible. From early hominids bartering around the campfire or the haggling in ancient village open-air markets, to online e-commerce, banking and finance,....
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Cheqd, a blockchain startup whose software could drive the widespread adoption of digital identities, has announced it’s joining the CeDeFi Alliance with the goal of helping it to build a decentralized self-sovereign identity architecture that will open up the world of DeFi to institutional investors. In a lengthy blog post, cheqd co-founder and CEO Fraser […]
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