[lukeschlather]

A decentralized government ID system is a contradiction in terms. Government ID is and must be centralized. For me the decentralization is precisely the problem. I shouldn't end up with my government ID registered in a newspaper's database because I bought a newspaper subscription. Decentralization is not good here. In order for identification to work, decentralization requires that everyone who tangentially has access to your identity has persistent verifiable knowledge of your identity. Even in a centralized system it is hard to avoid this.