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I've founded a startup that might be able to provide some help in this space. It's basically a mix of being an OpenID Connect provider that does authenticity checks on any information that users provide and makes the results of those verifications available to third-party-sites, all while protecting the actual information itself.

The first market we were planning on targeting was for Bitcoin related services that require KYC verification, but we also are planning on targeting any other services that need to know that their users are not bots and that if they ban a user they stay banned.

We just got some Series A funding and we're doing a crowdfunding from people who want to operate their own Identity Registrar. We should be launching our basic services in a month, and the franchise partners that are planning to participate will be able to do so in about two months.

If your problem can wait until summer is over, we'll be able to have a solution that would be free so anyone with a BlockAuth account can log in with a standards-compliant OpenID login form and you can be assured that they've been verified as being a real and unique person and all of the details they've submitted have been put under a microscope.




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