[phoronixrly]

I would wager all services will be linked to a verified credit or debit (non-temporary) card. Most of them are now...

How are you going to connect the physical person with an identity with in-person attestation? Many (several of which major English-speaking) countries don't have mandatory government IDs...

A commenter below suggests that government eIDs could be used. I bet this will be harder to implement and will have much worse conversion rates than (the already terrible) mandatory credit/debit cards... Not to mention the hell that we as non-US citizens will have to endure if anyone tries to impose any form of mandatory ID there... One can only take so much complaining about government overreach about something that is basic necessity here in the EU...