[QQ00]

Someone, somewhere, salivating at the idea of combining both ideas. A paid for digital ID service that you can use as authentication for the web.

Actually, if I'm thinking about it. Social Media platforms already started this with the paid blue badge for verification, and it's also monthly subscription. But it's for their respective platform only, not universal.

[roxolotl]

Isn’t this what World Coin is? Definitively not a fan of the project but I think the general goal is to get people to verify they are human and then somehow “waves hands blockchain” that can be carried with them on the internet.

[geek_at]

Would that work though? Unless it checks your pulse every 30 minutes I don't see how that would make it better. Bots would use stolen IDs for that. It would only contain it at a smaller scale probably

[booi]

There's definitely a price where it doesn't scale and that price is almost certainly lower than what people would be willing to pay once for themselves.

[pphysch]

It would have to integrate with some kind of official government ID, so that there can be extremely serious criminal penalties for ID theft. But that's something for the next republic, because the current one's justice system is unlikely to be up to the task.