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Cryptocurrencies+Cryptography → Proof of personhood

merge · 29 Apr 2017

Bryan Ford's group (EPFL) coins the term proof-of-personhood: a mechanism that binds physical entities to virtual identities while preserving anonymity — bford.info ↗

Privacy & surveillance · Cybersecurity · Finance & money

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