Total privacy on the internet was probably never realistic to begin with, but crypto made it even harder. The “own your data” and “own your identity” stuff? Yeah, that didn’t really happen either. Most people don’t want to manage keys for their identity and even if they did, the tools aren’t there. It’s clunky, confusing and the social layer… trust, recovery, resolving disputes… just doesn’t exist yet. It sounded good in theory, but in practice, it’s not something people actually want to use.

Nightmare. Turning wallets into permanent reputational IDs is how you kill privacy and build a surveillance (credit) score system on-chain. When will we get a widely adopted SSI (Self-Sovereign Identity) solution that verifies and authenticates a human’s identity, without sharing any of their personal information? The problem is, even if the info stays private, the way you access it -> your device, your network, your timing… can still leak too many infos. We need to rebuild everything… or we’ll keep fooling ourselves with surface-level solutions while the system keeps watching. #wallet #SSI