Comment by evrydayhustling
4 years ago
I like the starting focus on identity. Imagine if emails to you were authenticated by a token that you authorized by logging in, and could revoke at any time. In a Web2 world, features like this get created by Google, Apple or whomever inventing a permissions system that works on their platform -- and serves their product goals. In a Web3 world where you issue identity tokens, you can revoke them arbitrarily, so if your identity is shared you can trace and revoke at the root. Services move from worrying about how to game Apple's privacy model to how to avoid a ban that remains strictly in your control.
...and in a Web 1 beta II world this was already done by PGP in 1991. Granted, it never achieved mainstream adoption because it's somewhat cumbersome and solves a problem people do not actually experience. Sort-of like everything blockchain, one might say.