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by adrianwaj 99 days ago
A new capital-raising occurred to get photographs of palms encoded and onto a blockchain using zero-knowledge proofs.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/polychain-backs-veryai-s-10m-...

Maybe what would work is some type of physical checkpoint where a person can be viewed and confirmed to be human - say at a mobile phone store or really whoever wants to do it. Then again, some people are even averse to being filmed at any store. Not sure if this would work in tandem with another biometric, such as with VeryAI, or this is all that is needed.

Otherwise maybe a type of vending machine could be used with some human-checking devices implemented in it - and that device could be tied into the blockchain.

The issue with all this of course is say you've proved to be human, what happens if you tell your bots the obtained info in order to become an "acting clone" - or rather someone steals the info? So maybe a bi-weekly checkup on that vending machine that acts as a sort dead-man's switch? It's starting to sound unreliable.

There could also be "human-attestation spaces" whereby anyone inside is validated to be human for the time they are present there. Like a cubicle at a library. Not sure what the point would be, though.

Yet, thinking far ahead. At some point, the problem may be human clones and validating an authentically original human. See 'Celebrity Doppelganger Fury' : youtube.com/@CDFury/videos