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0 pointssmarx0073y ago0 comments

The word "blockchain" is mentioned only once in the spec, and only in one of the 12 use cases.

The garbage part is that 9 of 10 (give or take) methods registered on https://www.w3.org/TR/did-spec-registries/#did-methods are from crypto-hyper-cosmos-nonsense.

The reason is that serious organizations like MasterCard or BankID will only begin considering registering a method once the spec is a W3C Recommendation. At this stage, only insignificantly small or heavily invested parties registered a method on a draft standard (which is what a "proposed recommendation" roughly means).

Edit: nope, I was wrong, Mastercard has one https://github.com/Mastercard/did-methods/blob/master/id.md

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eldenwrong3y ago· 2 in thread

The only decentralized one is the one that uses Bitcoin. No Bitcoin no real DID.

Decentralization matters.

smarx007OP3y ago

Please don’t hijack the term decentralization to solely mean blockchain &co. What you are describing is a single system that uses technical means to decentralize (quite cleverly so).

The classical D. is achieved by not having a single system like Blockchain but instead having as many as you wish - anyone can install nginx on their server. This results in a multitude of systems achieved through policy means. The spec means decentralization in this way - Sweden can rely on some DID methods, UK on other, and you can use Bitcoin :)

You may argue that the latter is flawed but please don’t make it sound like the former is the only way.

eldenwrong3y ago

All methods that don't rely on Bitcoin are not really decentralized.

All other systems can get decisions reversed and rules changed without much trouble. Try doing that in Bitcoin :)

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