Twitter has taught us a lot about reputation and identity in a very short amount of time, hence this brief interlude and exploration

I wrote this up a whle ago when trying to explain decentralized identity concepts to newcomers, which included people who would have to soon communicate these concepts to other people. So a large focus was visuals, analogies, etc, as well as common misconceptions. Unfortunately I lost some beautiful formatting in the doc => markdown conversion, but I’ll try to recover that later, especially if this content is useful.

With Decentralized Identity flows, we often use the phrase “proof of control” or “proving control over a credential/identifier”. This post provides a visual description of what that means.

The previous post requires a belated fast-follow for Driver’s License VC modeling fans – all 3 of you.

This post aims to provide an extremely informal, no-background-needed introduction to a fundamental[¹] decentralized identity concept – the Verifiable Credential (VC) – through pictures, metaphors, and dated pop-cultural references.

I’m very behind on the next blog in the series, and it’s important that you know why. It’s our dog, Percy: