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Topic: [ANN] UBIC:The cryptocurrency providing UBI for the masses using the E-Passport - page 3. (Read 18227 times)

newbie
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Sad news, there was no mention of new NFC functionalities in iOS 12 at the keynote.

uk home secretary announced few weeks back that Apple promised to enable the Brexit e-passport App finally to work with iOS in late 2019 .( More and more people will grow accustomed to use their passport with NFC due to looming brexit btw. ) https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/29/android-brexit-app-for-eu-citizens-to-work-on-iphones-says-sajid-javid

jr. member
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I am currently working on version 0.4, this will be the first version to be "exchange ready".
It will be very stable and have some new API endpoints that will make exchange integration easier.
jr. member
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It is now possible to register an icelandic passport if it was issued after 2013!
jr. member
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The issue with the block explorer has been fixed.
jr. member
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There were some issues with the block explorer: https://ubic.network
I am trying to fix them. Unfortunately it also affects the app.
jr. member
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The UBIC android wallet is now also available on F-Droid ( https://f-droid.org/packages/network.ubic.ubic/ )
jr. member
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A new UBIC currency UIS (ICELAND) will be added with version 0.2.1 and will activate with block 146500.
Nodes that don't upgrade to V 0.2.1 will be stuck at block 146500.
jr. member
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newbie
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it may be off limits for years, but we need a decentralized organisation one day with enough checks and balances and a buget allowing to give out free "universal passports" to everyone - as self sovereign as possible and in compliance with https://www.icao.int/publications/pages/publication.aspx?docnum=9303 ?
jr. member
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I released V0.2.0 please upgrade your nodes

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After block 85000 there will be a protocol upgrade that will affect the register passport transactions.
Two new fields were added (uint16_t)mdAlg and (std::vector) signedPayload.

    (uint16_t)mdAlg hash algorithm used to digitally sign passport data.
    (std::vector) signedPayload is an ASN1 Object containing no personal information but it may contain a field called signingTime(timestamp from when the Gov. issued the chip) that could be very interesting for future usages.

V0.2.0 clients are incompatible with V0.1.x clients.
jr. member
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This is probably either USV, Y Combinator or a16z crypto. Not sure which one, but the website looks similar to the one of a16z crypto.
newbie
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another hint that people believe in your concept Wink

jr. member
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Wow, they paid between 150 and 500k$ for their domain name and bought it in Feb 2018, source: https://www.namepros.com/blog/braden-pollock-sold-q-org-for-500-000.1106227
They also bought the https://twitter.com/Q account, so they seem BIG to me.
jr. member
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Ubic stands for "Universal Basic Income" Currency, but a additional meaning like "Unique Blockchain Identity" Currency could be correct too?

i like "Unique Blockchain Identity Currency" Smiley

However I think that we should speed up because we now have some direct competitors. Take a look at https://q.org they are planing to use the E-Passport too.
Quote from q.org:
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PROOF OF PERSON
E-passports
RFID-chipped travel passports are the most widely circulated document in the world. Adoption rates became especially high in recent years. The USA is near 50%, and European countries are near 70-80% or higher. Worldwide, RFID-chipped passports are in the vicinity of 1 billion.
RFID-chipped passports support NFC (Near Field Communication). This allows us to create a Proof Of Person by verifying the passport authenticity with the signing authority. Through a mobile phone app, this can be done in a user friendly way and without anyone needing to receive your passport details, ensuring your privacy.
To prevent passport abuse by third parties, we can add an additional decentralized video verification system. This will ensure that the person in possession of the passport matches the passport picture.
They intend to launch in 2019, there are no information about who is behind the project.
newbie
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Ubic stands for "Universal Basic Income" Currency, but a additional meaning like "Unique Blockchain Identity" Currency could be correct too?
jr. member
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I am currently working on implementing the KYC functionality to the android app and it would be very useful to have am API endpoint that for a given passport hash returns if it already receives UBI or not.
EDIT: It turns out I don't need it.
newbie
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I did digg once more into anti sybil projects and it is fascinating that there seems to be still no other competitor yet providing a automated and/or decentralizable solution for sybil resistance beside maybe duniter. I think brightID will face slow growth too for different reasons, it is unlikely that everyone convinces their real peergroup to join at the beginning and local seedgroups may be only at a close distance attractive to join. As long as web of trust doesnt grow into mainstream something like kyc with government IDs seems to be initially needed as kickstart nearly everywhere.
newbie
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wow, gj! will there be a whitepaper update explaining it in detail, which we can share with people?
jr. member
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The KYC functionality is now working. To verify someone, a website creates a challenge, something like "www.utopia.org/?kyc-request=1462517"
The user then scans his passport and generates a base64 encoded identity proof for this challenge. As said previously there a re 3 modes: anonymous, with written information and with facial image.

When the base64 encoded proof is sent to the /ubi/verify-kyc endpoint, the output would be like this one:
Code:
{
    "success": "true",
    "dscID": "81fd9c80a1c40f2fbde419ee928318013fe714ff",
    "currencyID": "42",
    "expiration": "1568278666",
    "passportHash": "35715d1ae2c2b67e17815c3d53b12406833a0b294cc9bc40a37473111d32deb9",
    "challenge": "www.utopia.org/?kyc-request=1462517",
    "passportNumber": "A54DF5AA4",
    "name": "DOE  JOHN",
    "isoCountryCode": "UTO",
    "gender": "M",
    "dateOfExpiry": "210519",
    "dateOfBirth": "890529",
    "mrz": "P

UTODOE<    "facialImage": "AAAAgdf0...."
}


in the above example the KYC proof is with a facial image.
An "anonymous" proof would look like this:
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{
    "success": "true",
    "dscID": "81fd9c80a1c40f2fbde419ee928318013fe714ff",
    "currencyID": "42",
    "expiration": "1568278666",
    "passportHash": "35715d1ae2c2b67e17815c3d53b12406833a0b294cc9bc40a37473111d32deb9",
    "challenge": "www.utopia.org/?kyc-request=1462517"
}
jr. member
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I added 2 new endpoints in the API, /ubi/verify-kyc and /ubi/do-kyc
The functionality is still under development.
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