@Tim That sounds right to me. Under centralization people tend to have several emails accounts which act as quasi identities to an extent but sunk cost and less than perfect transferability, has them favor accounts which become default identities. It looks like ProjectSAFE will support at least two accounts or an account and anonymous mode.
As it seem you were alluding to, firms under centralization have been mining privacy and will seek to mine identity. You peoples lives would become even more about managing appearances and the outside and even less about discovery. I can see industry in the US in particular trying to drive identity like it tries to drive credit where people are encouraged to have debt to have better access to debt as if cultivating an addiction. I think we need to build tech that locks them out of this potential.
I want these predatory firms out of business, their model, their mentality their world view is corrupt, unsustainable and needs to come to an end. But more than that these are powerful people who have abused power and need to cease to have that power and influence. We need systems that achieve that result. They’ve been about one message, its always been one message over and over: money is power. That signal needs to cease.
Exactly. Locking them out of that potential like Bitcoin locks out bankers of printing more coins; self-regulation through distributed open-source infrastructures could actually be the only good alternative to these kind of centralized organizations (either gov and/or corp).
Money has become power because money is a goal by itself, and not just the means to make trade possible anymore, and hasn’t been for a long time.
I’ve always said that Bitcoin is a big step in the right direction, but not the perfect currency, exactly for that reason. Once we have the right reputation system though, we could go for a maybe even better model. One where the currency is the tool to facilitate trade, instead of the goal by itself.
That better model is an epiphany. Safe system could be substituted in place of the block chain? As I was reading that I suspect part of what will truly accommodate proof of unique human or a practical stand in, is systems that also provide true anonymity. Almost like their might be some kind of balance. At the same time I tend to always think of identity in terms of locks and enclosure. An electronic lock on our front door might couple a biometric to a combination. But above in the thread art he cautions about biometrics. There is also a third possibility of pseudoanonymity which may have a place where its provides plausible deniability. In terms of our current world though I’d rank true anonymity the most important even as it can create other problems like untraceable bribery in voting.
Following link talks about chipping and cashless banking. We chip you, make it illegal to remove and go to a cashless system and we can get push button exile. Talks about why some thing this would be a good idea.