$ETH ‎Ethereum Founder Vitalik Proposes Pluralistic Digital Identity Systems

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‎#ETH co-founder Vitalik Buterin warns that single digital IDs could destroy #pseudonymity despite zero-

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‎knowledge protections.

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‎Projects like World ID with 10 million users risk creating trackable single-identity systems.

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‎Platforms could force users into one public identity, eliminating separate pseudonymous profiles.

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‎This exposes users to government surveillance and employer monitoring, according to the $ETH creator.

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‎Buterin rejects proof-of-wealth systems that exclude poor user concentrate power among the wealthy

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‎Pluralistic identity systems with multiple authorities offer the best realistic #privacy solution.

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‎These could use social-graph verification or multiple ID providers preventing monopolistic control.

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‎The goal merges one-per-person schemes with social networks to bootstrap diverse global identity.