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

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Just like cameras do violence to the richness of sight, today’s identity systems do great violence to the richness of who we are, something we are reminded of and annoyed by every time we use them. Consider: To authenticate you, most identity systems today rely on an elaborate key or password that most people cannot remember, and which has no personal significance to them. Most sign-up systems on the internet ask you to use one of a small number of digital identity providers, such as Facebook, Google to login in with. Some requiring “proof of ID” may also ask you to scan in your government iss

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