Motivating The Case For Decentralized Social Identity: Part Three - RadicalxChange

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This is the final part in a three part series by RadicalxChange and Wireline on decentralized social identity, focusing on its transformative potential. Part One laid out the requirements, while Part Two discussed its applicability. Beyond near-term “practical” uses, functioning social identity systems have truly transformative potential to transform the organization of technology, society, politics and the economy. We now consider a few, increasingly ambitious examples. First, consider blockchains, a popular distributed database technology. Such systems offer rewards to those who store and en

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