quotingI've observed a few posting on the topic of digital IDs this past week and been meaning to elaborate on this as Insee it as a fundamentally important step we are making.
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Basically you already have credit scores in the US or actual social scores in other countries like China. Digital IDs are going to happen whether we like it or not and the main issue from my perspective is the individual needs to be in control of their own ID and not hand it over to a gov or corpo. This is basically the core of why nostr was build anyway so we should actually be leading this discussion.
Why this needs to happen is because of AI and how will we (or AI) distinguish between something human created because in 5 years even pros are going to not know unless we build a filter into the system now. So basically some sort of scoring system is necessary and what is being argued about is just implementation.
To be clear, we are not debating pro vs con on the issue of digital ID. The only discussion is around their implementation.
Nostr has been slowly building a layered approach to this. You cryptographic key pair at the foundation. NIP5 ID verifications. Paid relays (which require a lightning transaction to join). This is just some of the basics here and ideas for additional implementations is welcome as we are an open source and decentralized community.
Point here is we are building something were you have full control of your ID here and there is a scaling system that does grade your engagement. These rules are not entirely hard set and in cases can be completely bypassed but the key point again is this is a protocol where you are in control of your experience. And the more you engage with the protocol the more it becomes part of you.
im_not_a_rapper on Nostr: "They have so much data and yet they believe it's not enough." ...
"They have so much data and yet they believe it's not enough."