The wealth of information stored on-chain could even upend markets as big as search and discovery. A range of matching algorithms will be enabled by the openly queryable nature of decentralized identities; whereas previously, matching algorithms could only be developed by whoever had access to our data. Additionally, until now we’ve only been able... See more
More recently, Vitalik Buterin and others in the cryptocurrency community have taken up the rhetoric of blockchain mechanisms as public goods. To be sure, crypto protocols are among the most compelling novel institutional forms. Their unique capabilities derive from their "public" qualities: unrestricted membership and participation, open APIs,... See more
Occupying the middle ground between Facebook’s real-name policy and 4chan’s posts without accounts, platforms like Reddit and Twitter are home to many pseudonymous accounts. The key quality, here, is that these accounts display persistent pseudonymity.