Opinion 
Digital identity systems exclude 2.7 billion people who don’t have smartphones. Offline attestations and peer-signed credentials must serve the disconnected.
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.