| This is exciting to me. About 3 years ago, I won 250k at the Texas Bitcoin Conference hackathon for this basic concept. I built the platform but then the angel investor that was funding the award changed his mind and backed out because he said there wasn't a market already existing for it and that it was a hard elevator pitch. I sat on the code for years. Oddly enough, in the last month I've been approached by 4 companies asking if I could build them pretty much the same thing so I've brushed off the code and I'm making it so the certified facts about people can be available to DAO's on Ethereum through oracles. This doesn't need to be on a blockchain. As toomim notes, it would be better as just a signed document. I stored all my data in a big json document for every user, sometimes multiple times with different levels of encryption. Most people found that the best way to access the data was with an OAUTH2 gateway. It would allow any kind of website to ask the user to connect their credential gateway to determine if the user could use the site. For instance, an adult site could require a user login with OAUTH2 in order to know that the user is over 18. The user could see in the login dialog what information was being requested. There were tons of potential markets [1] The biggest market I found in all my research was with veterans. Whenever they go to non-profits or social service agencies for help, their military records are requested from the DOD and its a process that takes 4 to 6 weeks. The non-profits were more than happy to receive the records and then digitally sign the results so future service agencies could just query the system. When one agency who provides rental assistance says "Trust me, I verified that John Doe is a veteran with service between 1995 and 2005 who was honorably discharged," a future foodbank he might visit believes it. Data brokers are scum and this kind of system is the best way to put them out of business and remove false data associated with individuals. [1] potential markets I discovered: * Dating sites who want to make sure that users are really in a region, a certain gender, have a certain income, don't have criminal records, etc * job search sites who wanted to be able to let users pre-vet their employment history for possible employers * digital currency services who had to do KYC or verify someone wasn't in a certain area * adult or gambling sites that need to verify ages and/or jurisdictions * newspaper sites who wanted to cut down on comment spam * investing sites that needed to make sure that individuals met the accredited investor criteria * fundraising sites that wanted to make sure people raising funds were who they said they were and that they didn't have a history of fraud A few dozen more. |
I work for a legal nonprofit and one of our trade associations is helping me with my plan to run a veterans hackathon and your idea definitely rings true