EPISODE · Oct 21, 2020 · 52 MIN
Daniel Buchner
from Tangents from Coin Center · host Peter Van Valkenburgh
When Twitter was recently hacked, hundreds of popular accounts started tweeting out misleading advertisements for cryptocurrency scams. The problem was not cryptocurrency itself, but rather the broken centralized identity systems that Twitter (alongside all modern internet services) relied upon. The solution, as discussed in this podcast, may actually be cryptocurrency technology itself. Peter and Daniel define decentralized identity, review how it can solve problems like the Twitter hack, and highlight upcoming software releases from Microsoft and others, the Ion protocol layer atop Bitcoin, that could radically improve our digital identity tools for the betterment of security and freedom online.
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Peter Van Valkenburgh interviews Daniel Buchner, Project Manager for Decentralized Identity at Microsoft, about identity systems, shortcomings in existing centralized tools, and how Microsoft and others are building open solutions for identity based atop permissionless blockchains like Bitcoin.
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