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by OtherShrezzing 313 days ago
>The internet was built without a native way to prove who you are and move value securely. But now, for the first time, that missing piece (example...

I earnestly thought "Apple Pay" was going to be the example, and this post's title would be updated with [2014]. I'm not clear how the vault solves a problem anybody has in an era where Apple Pay and its contemporaries exist. I'm fairly sure if you'd described the Apple/Google Pay features to someone in 1990, they'd think something approximating "yeah that sounds like a good target".