Anyone.

Come to realize one of the reasons people don't get DIDs, is they think they're just glorified pubkeys, or they're glorified decentralized Apple Wallets. This is just a wrong mental model.

The way to think about what DIDs and Verifiable Credentials from an engineering and application developer perspective, is to view them as a wholesale replacement for DNS and Certificate Authorities. They decentralize away from ICANN.

They are a new universal identity layer for the internet. But because they are open an extensible protocols, we can do everything from validate that website is legitimately owned by a company or individual. Or they can be used to model a driver's license, where a government agency issues the credential. The protocol doesn't care.

I think people who think they're "too complex" and add nothing that pubkeys don't, haven't thought too deeply about the totality of problem of identity on the internet, and are likely taking DNS (a highly centralized form of identity) for granted. When they probably shouldn't.

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Competition drives us to do things faster, better, cheaper. People are slowly then suddenly discovering that "faster, cheaper, better" == “less centralized”.

Cost gravity is the endless fall to free. Technology itself becomes more decentralised over time simply because there are so many more devices. As the cost of chips (and the connections between them) arcs towards zero, we see a corresponding increase in scale and distribution.

Conway’s Law is an observation among engineers that the way we organise is directly proportional to the shape of the systems we build. The most economically efficient way of building decentralized software to take advantage of the exponential increase in chips and connections is to have an equally decentralised team. Free markets wipe out any structures that don’t keep up.

Amdahl’s Law can be applied to humans not just threads. We then see that organisational structures scale in direct proportion to decentralization. The economic pressure on organisational structures to become decentralised will continue to increase until the only systems capable of surviving in the free market will be those which can operate without any level of central control. There is simply no room left for any kind of upfront agreement before solving a problem.

If you’re creating something you want people to use, it has to solve a problem they care about. It has to do it in the simplest and cheapest possible way given the currently available technology.

The wisdom of the crowd is the collective opinion of a diverse independent group of individuals rather than that of a single expert. The more people involved in the problem solving process, and the less centralised they are, the more accurate and efficient their solution will be.

Decentralize, or die.

So I have already been in multiple situations where a developer on my team was working on a thing for 2 days, where I was able to get it done with ChatGPT in a minute.

This is actually happening.

All devs need to learn to use AI tooling right now!

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