Opinion
Digital identity systems exclude 2.7 billion people who don’t have smartphones. Offline attestations and peer-signed credentials must serve the disconnected.
The author is an independent contributor writing an opinion or expert take. Views expressed are the author’s own and may not reflect Cointelegraph’s editorial position. Nanak Nihal is the president of the Holonym Foundation, which builds primitives to make identity and data easier and safer
Digital identity systems exclude 2.7 billion people who don’t have smartphones. Offline attestations and peer-signed credentials must serve the disconnected.
Hundreds of millions of SSNs have been leaked online already, but a privacy-focused identity solution could help fix the problem.