Dead Internet Theory solution
The internet is flooded with bots
Every day it feels like it's more AI and less human
We need to fix this
How about this?
We do it using regular PKI
We start distributing root keys to verifiable humans
Then when a new human is born we create a new public/private key pair and sign that using the private keys of the parents, nurses, doctors, family, etc; the more people who sign a new child's key pair the better
We already have hardware wallets used for cryptocurrencies which we can store private keys in which they can be stored offline, can be used used, but never extracted or read
We just need to combine existing technologies
DO NOT ALLOW GOVERNMENTS OR AGENCIES TO HAVE ANY PART IN THIS
THIS NEEDS TO BE TOTALLY DECENTRALISED AND ALL SIGNING AND VERIFICATION NEEDS TO BE DONE OFFLINE
I suggest you issue yourself a root key ASAP, as strong as possible, then, when you meet people offline, you can sign their key to strengthen their verification, or, you can issue them a key under your root key
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Anonymous commented
Also, for obvious reasons, we shouldn't be able to see who has signed your keys. Just stuff like how many verified people have, and how verified they are. Privacy is important. We can probably do this with zero knowledge proofs or something, idk
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Anonymous commented
Also, I accidentally put this in the wrong area. It should probably be integrated to Proton Wallet. But we need hardware wallets