How Elon can Legally Transform Twitter with Pseudonymous Free Speech

Why identity cannot be an input to vaccine passport checks or any other real-world digital authorizations.

Cryptography always works, with or without privacy regulations. It is possible to preserve our privacy simply by re-thinking the flow of information on the internet. The authentic data economy allows for code to move to the data to produce cryptographic proofs based on the authentic data inputs. Sharing any of our data is now obsolete because we now know how to do business without it.

The authentic data economy is a digital world built on provable provenance and verifiable authenticity of all data. It is an economy where we will all conduct business both online and in the real world while maintaining full control of our data and without forfeiting our privacy.

There are nine fundamental problems of distributed systems. To be decentralized a system must have fully decentralized solutions for all nine problems. Leaving any problem unsolved, or solved with a centralized solution, leaves the system open up to corporate capture and sacrifices is independence and anti-fragility.

The six principles of user sovereignty form the moral guidelines for re-engineering the internet to be humane and respectful of the people that use technology. This is the moral framework that Cryptid follows when designing new systems.