Identity is the New Money (Perspectives)

For pseudonyms to have a value, they need to be underwritten by trusted institutions.

There are virtually no daily occasions when we have to prove who we are: in general, we are being asked to prove that we are entitled to do something, which is an entirely different issue and one that can be resolved without compromising on privacy.

Your identity of the future is a network-based, socially supported pseudonym.

As a pseudonym is an identity, a name in the simplest case, which is not your real identity but that is persistent and linked to your real identity.

To simplify grossly, three basic models for identity services emerged. We might label these, for ease of reference, the Scandinavian, Continental and Atlantic models. The Scandinavian model is one of banks providing identities that are used by business and government; the Continental model is of government identities that are used by banks and busi

A pseudonym can be connected with credentials to form a persona, rather like an avatar in a computer game: not just an identity, but an identity with some attributes.