On: Distributed crypto identity as a mechanism for legal empowerment of the poor

[woah]

You could easily create multiple identities, but they would not be worth much. By somehow encoding all the relationships of trust that a person has had throughout their lives, it would become possible for another person in the same, or connected, trust networks to verify the identity and the trust placed in it.

New identities would simply have no trust, and would be quite worthless without years of normal life behind them.

[lukifer → woah]

There might be incentives, though, for groups to collude to create artificial identities in their networks, as a form of gerrymandering.

[Turukawa → lukifer]

There's a major risk to that ... one person in the group gets discredited and that compromises everyone in the group.