🔗Blockchain: The New Identity Authority \ stacker news ~crypto

Why?

✓Today, your identity is controlled mostly by centralized governments or corporations.

✓Blockchain tech combined with zero knowledge proofs and decentralized identifiers DIDs will create self sovereign identities that YOU control.

✓Imagine a world where your passport, driver’s license, medical records, diplomas, financial history, and reputation scores all live securely on a blockchain, under your control, without needing to trust any single company or government.

Outcome:

✓National borders blur as identity verification becomes global, instant, and trustless.

✓Your reputation and credentials travel with you seamlessly no more waiting days for background checks or notarizations.

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This creates a new digital citizenship layer, opening new decentralized economies and global communities untethered from physical nations

Bitcoin will become the native reserve currency of space colonization:

✓As humanity pushes to colonize the Moon, Mars, or space stations, traditional fiat currencies will be useless or impractical there. ✓Bitcoin’s censorship resistance, scarcity, and decentralization make it the ideal “interplanetary money". ✓This means Bitcoin won’t just be the currency of Earth it becomes the currency of humanity beyond Earth.

Thoughts:

•How will governments respond if their role in identity is diminished? •Can this system ensure privacy while maintaining security? •What happens to those without access to blockchain technology? •Will a global digital identity create new forms of inequality or exclusion?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @guerratotal 29 May

This is the inevitable direction of a hyper-connected, trustless world. Identity moving to the blockchain is both empowering and deeply disruptive. It liberates the individual from the arbitrary control of governments and corporations, but it also raises serious philosophical and ethical questions.

Governments will fight it — not because it doesn’t work, but because it does. Their monopoly over identity is a key pillar of control. The question isn't whether they'll resist, but how aggressively.

Privacy vs. transparency will be the eternal tension. Zero-knowledge proofs offer a promising middle ground, but whether society adopts them properly depends on education and incentives.

As for those without access — inequality isn't solved by technology alone. It magnifies existing gaps unless we intentionally design systems that are inclusive, open-source, and accessible to the lowest layers of society.

This isn't just a tech shift. It’s a civilizational shift. And Bitcoin as interplanetary money? Completely agree. In space, physics favors math over borders.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @wolfsbane OP 29 May outlawed

stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.