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by p4bl0 1443 days ago
> "My ownership data" has value. perhaps not to you. But for people i interact with.

I don't think you understood what I meant. I said it has no intrinsic value, meaning that it has no value in itself.

> My education degree is something that I own. It can be very useful if I can quickly prove to the world that I indeed really have that degree.

The fact that it is written in a blockchain that you have a degree has no value in itself, it only works if a necessary trusted third-party, the university where you got that degree, approves it. You are not in a decentralized and fully adversarial setting. You do not need (nor want, for efficiency purpose mainly) a blockchain to solve this problem.

What you want is a cryptographic certificate (just like an X.509 SSL/TLS certificate) of your diploma signed by your university, which would play the role of a Certificate Authority, and which you can trust because the government that accredited your university to deliver actual diplomas has a root certificate (it acts as a Trusted Certificate Authority) and has signed the one of your university with it.

> like Twitter allows to prove you own an avatar NFT

Twitter is a central authority and could very well associate any "NFT avatar" with any of its users without relying on any blockchain.