Motivating The Case for Decentralized Social Identity: Part Two - RadicalxChange

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This is part two of a three part series by RadicalxChange and Wireline on decentralized social identity. Part One laid out the requirements, Part Two will discuss its applicability, and Part Three will discuss its transformative potential. Emerging Architectures This year we are seeing the first implementations of protocols that can provide truly user-centric identity. One example is Self-Sovereign identity (SSI) a technical architecture where identifiers (e.g. a number Alice generates that is totally unique for that interaction), verifiable credential issuance (e.g. “is a Github user”), and v

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