Re: Inventor of the Web Creates Identity on Bitcoin Blockchain Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, an english computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web has created his first Bitcoin blockchain ID on June 9

On 10 June 2016 at 11:32, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com <mailto:adrian@hopebailie.com>> wrote:
I would be wary of any solution that forces everyone to use a monoculture of technology or a single datasource (even if it is distributed or decentralized).

What this group is doing is defining a standard and the goal of this standard should be to allow users to pick any place to store their identity. Blockstack is an implementation. The goal should be many implementations and a protocol for interoperability between them.

That is to say, Blockstack's approach is awesome but it doesn't solve the problem of a global user-centric identity system because it still requires everyone to use Blockstack's system.

This is the same debate that raged regarding payments and Bitcoin. Identity on blockchains is catching up to where payments was a year ago.

Tim has had a first class 100% decentralized identity that he has published on his web page for a number of years.  It's fascinating that no one in this group has noticed that, and when he signs up to a silo that's news.  Apparently! :)


On 9 June 2016 at 22:21, ARIE Y. LEVY-COHEN <arielevycohen@gmail.com <mailto:arielevycohen@gmail.com>> wrote:
Agreed~!

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On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Jason Grant <jason@flexewebs.com <mailto:jason@flexewebs.com>> wrote:
This is awesome to read.
I created my ID couple of months ago on there also.
It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out.
Best regards,
Jason
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