I see that this project was posted in 2012. Ethereum was not around then. But, in 2014, I believe the best implementation of this project is done through Ethereum.
White Paper: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/%5BEnglish%5D-White-Paper
Topic: Identifi.org - Address book with ratings - page 2. (Read 27930 times)
There is an update on the project, you can now easly join with a Twitter account.
http://identi.fi (identifi/identifi)
http://identi.fi (identifi/identifi)
Escrow requires trust in the arbitrator.
Does it really have to, or is that just the way people have always done it before?Reputation is valuable in basically all human interaction. Airbnb, couchsurfing and Uber are practical examples of the power of reputation systems.
Reputation systems give you a limited and imperfect method of predicting intentionally malicious behavior.Insurance provides recourse that covers both intentional and unintentional damages. Properly implemented insurance systems offer a strict superset of the functionality provided by reputation systems and also don't require privacy compromises.
Owning facebook profile won't prevent any one from making a lot of them. Not to mention not everyone might like the idea of publication of they personality under certain vote. Besides for many if people they facebook profile is more of private thing, reserved for they family and friends ( well family mostly recently hehe, twitter is for friends). But lunching such service shouldn't be a problem and I'm always happy to see new initiatives. Another problem might be traffic on such site, what you probably would enjoy, and possible attacks from unhappy sites.
Escrow requires trust in the arbitrator.
Reputation is valuable in basically all human interaction. Airbnb, couchsurfing and Uber are practical examples of the power of reputation systems.
Reputation is valuable in basically all human interaction. Airbnb, couchsurfing and Uber are practical examples of the power of reputation systems.
Identity and reputation is the wrong way to go.
Building recourse into transactions such that you don't need to trust counterparties is the correct path.
Then you don't need to identify who you're doing business with so there's no valid reason to build privacy-destroying databases.
Building recourse into transactions such that you don't need to trust counterparties is the correct path.
Then you don't need to identify who you're doing business with so there's no valid reason to build privacy-destroying databases.
The purpose is to crawl data from existing sources, so we don't need to build the WoT from scratch. The bitcoin-otc crawler is on GitHub too.
In Identifi, anyone can do identity verifications (i.e. make connections between identifiers) and choose whose verifications they trust. Anyone can start building a good reputation in identity verfication. A pseudonymous identity is just an identifier (a bitcoin address for example) that hasn't been reliably connected to the identifiers of an actual person.
Most users will probably be using the network through a web service, but I'm planning to make it easier to be run locally. A browser plugin would be an interesting solution.
In Identifi, anyone can do identity verifications (i.e. make connections between identifiers) and choose whose verifications they trust. Anyone can start building a good reputation in identity verfication. A pseudonymous identity is just an identifier (a bitcoin address for example) that hasn't been reliably connected to the identifiers of an actual person.
Most users will probably be using the network through a web service, but I'm planning to make it easier to be run locally. A browser plugin would be an interesting solution.
That looks nice. I think I get the gist of what you're trying to do presently. Are those all test entries or is the intention to work with, say, nanotube to read ratings off of bitcoin-otc? It looks as if the user/account is an email located there, but I presume the idea is to identify the user and the site on which that user account resides.
I always thought it'd be kind of nice to have an identity management system whereby a trusted API (a "central" location) could indicate the last time an individual has proven their identity either via GPG, signed message with a registered Bitcoin address, or done phone call/text verification. Essentially if they don't meet M of N authorizations, the API would reject any "authentication" request as that particular user. Then sites like this forum, OTC, and etc could all work of it and consider it a reasonably secure way to ensure the entity they are speaking with is the correct one.
I know different exchanges do different forms of two-factor authentication, but having a single trusted source would be handy. Additionally, if open-sourced or hosted as a TOR hidden service, it could work to provide trust to otherwise anonymous identities as well.
I always thought it'd be kind of nice to have an identity management system whereby a trusted API (a "central" location) could indicate the last time an individual has proven their identity either via GPG, signed message with a registered Bitcoin address, or done phone call/text verification. Essentially if they don't meet M of N authorizations, the API would reject any "authentication" request as that particular user. Then sites like this forum, OTC, and etc could all work of it and consider it a reasonably secure way to ensure the entity they are speaking with is the correct one.
I know different exchanges do different forms of two-factor authentication, but having a single trusted source would be handy. Additionally, if open-sourced or hosted as a TOR hidden service, it could work to provide trust to otherwise anonymous identities as well.
Not completely functional yet, but still something to show: http://identi.fi (identifi/identifi). It's a Rails UI for the Identifi client, which is built on bitcoin-qt codebase. Basically, we flood trust packets throughout the network. Nodes give the priority to packets that are authored and signed by someone from within their web of trust.
Feedback, technical suggestions and help with development is very welcome. The code is available on GitHub.
Feedback, technical suggestions and help with development is very welcome. The code is available on GitHub.
Well this is an intriguing read. I hadn't realized there was so much work being done to get a system like this up and running and now I see I was mistaken. Gonna have a fair bit of catching to do to wrap my mind around this one.
So glad to see this happening!
I suggested this in June 2011 and put some thoughts about what it may and may not include. Really happy to see Sirius making this happen! More power to your elbow!
Here's my post from two years ago:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/compounded-networked-identity-and-bitcoin-for-grown-ups-17290
I believe there's this guy Joe Cascio working on something similar:
http://joecascio.net/joecblog/2013/03/25/collateralized-identity-using-bitcoin-to-suppress-sockpuppets/
I suggested this in June 2011 and put some thoughts about what it may and may not include. Really happy to see Sirius making this happen! More power to your elbow!
Here's my post from two years ago:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/compounded-networked-identity-and-bitcoin-for-grown-ups-17290
I believe there's this guy Joe Cascio working on something similar:
http://joecascio.net/joecblog/2013/03/25/collateralized-identity-using-bitcoin-to-suppress-sockpuppets/
All of the heavy lifting can already be provided through various means.
The things is that nothing decentralised is easy to use. I gave up on Bitcoin-OTC
The things is that nothing decentralised is easy to use. I gave up on Bitcoin-OTC
Im working on such a system that should be fairly simple to use AND to hack on.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cKlN55wX7n0SLvxidLoFVrJnNMJO-Iefr8bVyeHBseg/edit?usp=sharing
It's starting to get near the end of the summer, Sirius. How have things been going? Do you have any updates. I checked out the slides in your signature and felt compelled to post. This looks really interesting, and seems to be the only one done by someone with a reputation here already. It'd help immensely in getting us off of using GPG and WoT to something simpler that the typical forum-goer can use.
Good idea! Let me know if you need a tester!
To prevent Sybil attacks have users mine their identity. Then you can use this mining to weight nodes. Make it more beneficial to mine your one identity than many fake friends. This way indents are not throw away. I have thought about this a lot and will post more when I am not on my phone
A user identity database can be created without requesting personal information such as name, address, etc...
All that is needed for user identification is a cryptographic identifier that only that specific user has access to. For example, a brain-wallet key generated from a very long passphrase.
All that is needed for user identification is a cryptographic identifier that only that specific user has access to. For example, a brain-wallet key generated from a very long passphrase.
This idea blew my mind. Sorry for the necro-bump, but has this gained any traction?
I'm hoping to get a prototype out after this summer.
This idea blew my mind. Sorry for the necro-bump, but has this gained any traction?
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I've started coding this based on Freenet's Library plugin. I'll let you know when I have something that works.
Slides from my presentation at Bitcoin Cafe Helsinki: http://www.rvl.io/mmalmi/identifi/fullscreen
Slides from my presentation at Bitcoin Cafe Helsinki: http://www.rvl.io/mmalmi/identifi/fullscreen
Quote from: http://www.rvl.io/mmalmi/identifi/fullscreen#/1
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