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hi everyone I'm Igor with consensus if
you have interacted with me through
consensus it's most likely been through
the consensus Enterprise set of the
house I
spend most of my time there working with
clients kind of helping them define
blockchain strategy going through
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when I'm not doing the enterprise stuff
I like to spend my time thinking about
identity kyc and what these things can
look like on the blockchain and
I'd like to frame the discussion I guess
by this question what is the size of the
address space that we're dealing with
when we use you know etherium so if you
read the yellow paper an address is a
160-bit code used for identifying
accounts and 2 to the 160 is roughly one
point four six times ten to the forty
eight which looks like this which is one
kwinda Cillian and so like 1.5 kwinda
Cillian and possible addresses and
this is mainly mainly to illustrate that
math is cool
but you know we have we have a large
address space to work from
so
with that kind of framing how how can
you demonstrate you are who you say you
are on these systems and turns out
identity is a really difficult problem
the United Nations has a an initiative
ID 2020 the goal of that initiative is
to provide every single human being on
the planet with access to a digital
identity by the year as a fundamental
human right by the year 2020 so identity
is a problem that's you know at the a
love of humanity
now if you live in a you know an economy
that's developed and has a you know
developed financial services industry
and you know you can have things like
credit scores if you live in the United
States you're subject to a FICO score a
FICO speak-o is actually a software
company who aggregates all this data
about you and then resells that data as
an aggregate score and you don't really
have much say about that and I'm so not
really an open or decentralized system
and if you live in an emerging of an
emerging market where you might not have
a robust financial infrastructure you
don't have access to these kinds of
services so you can't get you know
access to financial services because you
can't establish a credit worthiness and
then of course you know users may
experience denial of identity by
identity providers you can you can get
your Facebook account closed and there's
nothing you could really do about it
which is a little crazy in our ultra
connected mobile world
so our goal is to provide stickiness for
your public address and really what I
what I mean by that is trying to convey
this idea of probabilistic confirmation
of a human being being behind a public
address and we liked we try to address
this in a lightweight user experience
where the user has control I
do want to say there are many ways to
skin a cat
given that we have such a large address
space and this is an open platform I
think there are going to be many
different approaches to solving
kyc identity et cetera you know what I'm
going to talk about is not the only way
and it's not a one-size-fits-all
solution
you know you port at stations or
different kind of attestation than what
we're talking about here and but I do I
do think that registries are fundamental
building block of
this kind of global operating system
that we're building on the world
computer so this is my registries
registries right three slide I think I
think it's going to be a pattern that we
see emerging over and over and over
again Oracle's providing access stations
and the underlying mechanism is a
registry of addresses that people can
reference I think that's just you know
like a UNIX command
so given that you know this market is
immature and nascent
you know we took the approach of just
building something and putting it out
there and getting some feedback and
iterating on that feedback
you know the viability of an attestation
platform I think is probably still early
too too early to tell
so what did we build some of you might
have used the part of this I know some
of you here have used this if you have
used proof of physical address thank you
thank you thank you I think it's super
cool that you're engaging you know with
this platform and
really what it is it's a it's actually a
simple kind of state machine and it's
simple by design
when you navigate to proof of physical
address comm you see a simple web form
you've seen this kind of web form a
million times every time you order
something to be delivered to your house
it's just your address
you input your address you hit submit
the app will generate a deposit address
you pay some ether and when you pay some
ether to that deposit address we
actually physically send you a letter in
the mail that letter
contains a unique identifier when you
get that letter in the mail you come
back to the website you input the unique
identifier and you input and a serum
address anyone that you want it could be
the one you use to fund the deposit
address but doesn't have to be and when
you submit that we will update our on
chain registry and provide an
attestation that we consensus or proof
physical address sent you a letter and
we are attesting that you were able to
receive that letter in the mail so I
don't want to say that proof of physical
address is the solution to blockchain
kyc and our founder Joe actually he
calls this proof of the ability to
intercept mail at a physical address but
I shortened that title down
but you can imagine
kind of an ecosystem of these kinds of
attestations providers emerging over
time different small lightweight
primitives that the users can go out and
reach out to and get access tations for
their accounts and so I mentioned we
have been in production a
few months now and it's it's pretty fun
to see where we're getting responses
form and interest we've had over three
hundred submissions worldwide purely
organic traffic we have submissions from
24 countries including library land
which i think is hilarious
and you know we do have a road map where
we're working on this we do want to
provide more proof of services and we
are working with the DAP ecosystem
you know we're working with you port for
badge integrations ether loans safe
market had lunch with Gryphon we might
do a balance three integration as well
and we're working on infrastructure
improvements on our side and also
one of the things I'm excited about
we're working on an MVP of our platform
API I don't want to promise any dates or
anything it's still very early but
that's something we're working on behind
the scenes
but an idea I want to illustrate is
that to build proof of physical address
so on the bottom it's all the components
we've used it takes a village to raise a
child we are able to plug into the
etherium community and all the different
components that exist and we're able to
build a service and as small as it is as
primitive as it is but app apps apps and
services that are being built on
aetherium can kind of reach out and use
that service so I think it's super
exciting that over time as we keep
building these things out you know the
ecosystem just keeps getting stronger
and stronger and stronger
so yeah that's proof physical address
you can go check it out use it and stay
tuned we'll become with more
Thank You Igor Igor village
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