Nostr Web Client

I'd personally like to see a NIP for this; ID providers could then publish attestations (unless privacy is an issue?) and clients could fetch attestations from reputed ID providers. This would make it possible for anyone to become an ID provider.

τέχνη 9mo ago

Yeah the main question is how to preserve privacy. Seemingly the best way is to just have multiple verifier services.

But the thing is, their ability to truly identify a human accurately would still be inferior to a full Sybil resistant network right? People could share fake credentials and scam the verifiers. I guess multiple verifiers would compete on who could verify the best, but still. The meta game could incentivize the verifiers to allow a few exceptions here and there.

A decentralized solution like the two I linked above (maybe there are others too) might be better

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τέχνη 9mo ago

All those Nostr meetups and conferences, people could be scanning each others phones and verifying each other!

hodlbod 9mo ago

That's sort of what I'm thinking, if anyone can make attestations you can select which ones you trust, making it decentralized and also be able to fallback to well-known/institutional ones. You don't have to limit yourself to just one attestation either.

τέχνη 9mo ago

What if someone is verified human and then lets a bot run their account? They can go to a different verifier and prove to be human again. They can have as many bots as there are verifier services.

I think this is the problem that Bright ID tries to solve

hodlbod 9mo ago

Interesting, I see what you mean. I'll have to look more closely at it

frphank 9mo ago

Bring back GPG key signing parties.

τέχνη 9mo ago

“It was just a UX problem?”

“Always has been”