With
a decentralized identity system, a person could manage his or her entire online identity without the worry of it being censored or abused in any way by a central authority.
At the moment Microsoft is working in order to provide
a decentralized identity system.
This new technology combines
a decentralized identity system, domain name registry and storage network to recreate a functional internet along decentralized rails.
There will ideally be
a decentralized identity system, like the Keyhotee system.
On a more positive note, Microsoft on Monday announced that it'll support
decentralized identities systems built on Bitcoin and other blockchains, which shows, again, the potential of the blockchain technology, and why companies are so interested in it.
Not exact matches
Microsoft just announced plans to work on a
decentralized, blockchain - based
system to verify
identity.
Reuters reports that IBM (NYSE: IBM) joins Sovrin Foundation, a private non-profit that wants to build a global blockchain
system for
decentralizing identity.
Akasha and uPort, for instance, are both dependent on IPFS for a
system of
decentralized storage, while Akasha ultimately aims one day to add support for uPort for
identity purposes.
In a
decentralized system trust is based on attestations: claims that other entities endorse — which helps prove facets of one's
identity.
This is a completely
decentralized system and can be operated at global or local level via a distributed
identity ledger which is run by different trusted parties across the Blockchain.
«While some blockchain communities have increased on - chain transaction capacity (e.g. blocksize increases), this approach generally degrades the
decentralized state of the network and can not reach the millions of transactions per second the
system would generate at world - scale,» Alex Simons, director of program management at Microsoft
Identity Division, wrote in a blog post.
The company has instilled a new port of the Ethereum Virtual Machine to «extend Bitcoin's capabilities to include smart contracts — allowing
decentralized autonomous organizations, social networks and
identity systems, programmatic escrow
systems, gambling and prediction markets.»
There is a number of Dragonchain use cases such as
identity systems, ticketing,
decentralized processing, computing, and storage framework, voting
systems, smart contract, reporting and compliance, funding and accountancy, generic crypto - store, payments policy, organization inside currency, open source software project control, Intellectual Property marketplace, customer facing currencies — ecosystem exchange (physical or virtual, gaming), reservations (room, travel, table...), Internet of Things etc..
IBM will now join Sovrin Foundation, a private and non-profit making organization to create a digital
decentralized identity network
system that uses the Blockchain Technology to provide the most secure, private and reliable transactions across the world.
The Indorse platform will be integrated with a number of
decentralized applications (DApps) including: Attores Certificate Issuance Platform, Inter Planetary File
System (IPFS), uPort identity system, Truffle, Spectrum and S
System (IPFS), uPort
identity system, Truffle, Spectrum and S
system, Truffle, Spectrum and Status.
The foundation of a
decentralized credit
system is a securely established and verified
identity.
SelfKey, a blockchain - based digital
identity system specializing in
decentralized control of personal data, continues to tick off milestones as...
We're honored to join this community and bring a purpose - built
identity system that is just as
decentralized as they are — and which can interoperate with all of them.»
Through this collaboration, Microsoft expects «to produce a cross-chain
identity solution that can be extended to any future blockchains or new kinds of
decentralized, distributed
systems.»
According to Max Kordek, Lisk can serve as a platform for developing «
decentralized storage module,
decentralized voting, usernames,
identities, trust
system, messaging, social networks, sharing economies.»