François TéchenéAn ethical currency and the future of digital wallets : https://puri.sm/posts/purism-at-festig1-and-the-librem-as-a-digital-hardware-wallet/
amberella@ftechene I wonder how they ensure that every account is held by a unique human? The closest thing - tying accounts to phone numbers - obliterates their requirement for anonymity and introduces an economic barrier to entry. Obligatory biometric implants? I’m confused. :)
@amberella It goes through the web of trust. You must be certified by 5 certified accounts (every 2 years IIRC). There are several rules for preventing fraud like the rule of distance preventing accounts to be certified by random accounts... but I am not very familiar with them. More of the theory here : https://duniter.org/en/theoretical/
Theoretical
A cryptocurrency system Duniter uses the crypto-currency concept introduced by Bitcoin, which is to use cryptographic tools such as signatures to create digital currencies. Duniter fits this definition, but it has completely different inspirations than Bitcoin -- the Web of Trust and Universal Dividend -- to do better than Bitcoin. Actually, Duniter …
@amberella More about the Web of Trust here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
@ftechene yeah WoT relies on centralized CAs, creating a decentralized version via reputation tracking (& a blockchain apparently) is an interesting challenge. Cheers :)