Re: Utah State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) legislation

> Who is everyone and what makes everyone trustworthy?

Everyone is anyone.

And on a blockchain you do not need  like any decentralized technologies
you do not need to trust others you trust the math / logic.

The merge rules ran by anyone, including Germanys node for example,
identify any break of rules or inconsitencies, and others also see Germanys
break of rules or inconistencies if it happens

Who makes the merge rules?

Global academic consensus.

su 15.2.2026 klo 16.17 Jori Lehtinen (lehtinenjori03@gmail.com) kirjoitti:

> > Blockchain is trust worthy because every node verifies and correct the
> state before gossiping it forward including the node you control.
>
> You can think of the blockchain as multiple (Q)TSP keeping each other
> accountable, if one (Q)TSP tries to rewrite some trust items history the
> others won't accept that change.
>
> You combine them in to this one entity: Mega Qualified Trust Service
> Provider ; )
>
> And the trustworthiness in my example also comes from the blockchain only
> the information required for the verification.
>
> What needs to be presented to others as verifiable facts, are kept in
> custody by the ones whose legal safety depends on being able to present
> these to others as verifiable facts.
>
> And also an example of legislation defining what needs to presented in
> court  would be:
>
>   “A legally binding digital signature SHALL be accompanied by
> mathematically verifiable proof that the signature was generated using a
> private key that is hosted only within the signer’s physical identity
> instrument containing the signer’s personally identifiable data, and that
> the identity instrument was active at the time of signing, such that the
> signature MAY be verified at any later time using verification values
> retrieved from the ‘Global Legal Trust Blockchain’.”
>