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by jiggawatts 64 days ago
DIDs are the new NFTs: crypto enthusiasts desperately trying to find an excuse for why their blockchains are needed in the wider world.

The name "Decentralized Identifiers" tells you everything you need to know. It's just blockchain. DID backends include ION/Sidetree, Indy, and Ethr using BitCoin, Hyperledger, and Ethereum respectively.
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mankins 64 days ago
I mean isn't this just a side effect of DIDs coming out a time when a lot of activity happened with blockchains? They came from w3c, a web org.

I guess my experience is similar to what you're saying though: we didn't really need that crypto layer to immediately gain value. But the way it compressed ids into a single namespace, that was useful.

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