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"Web of Trust" has been the proposed answer for, what, 30 years now? But everyone is too lazy to implement and abide by it.


Don’t worry, it’s coming for real this time. The governments have been proposing a requirement that web companies connect accounts to government IDs.

If that isn’t exciting enough, Sam Altman (yea the one who popularized this LLM slop) will gladly sell you his WorldCoin to store your biometric data on the blockchain!




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