'What happens when a person is born in one country, their parents are from a second, they live in a third country, use a company’s virtual office services in a fourth country to work for a company with its head office in a fifth?'
‘Using your driving licence to prove your age [at the moment] also shows your address and date of birth. With a digital ID you could share just that you are over 18.’‘You could imagine, in a future where cryptocurrency adoption has increased and people are less dependent on state-issued money, people may also choose to be less dependent on state-issued identity ,’ James Monaghan, vice-president, product at decentralised identity company Evernym, tells Metro.co.
‘Does a borderless digital world render the structure of a nation-state anachronistic? The answer is probably yes,’ Lundy-Bryan tells Metro.co.uk. ‘But just because the tools are available it doesn’t mean this shift is anywhere close to the horizon.’In simple terms, blockchain, the technology used for cryptocurrency Bitcoin, removes the need to have a central authority responsible for securing personal details, allowing people to secure their own details with high levels of security.
If a citizen can ‘raffle’ of their identity to the highest bidder, what does that mean for nationalism and national ‘pride’?‘We will need to apply for nationality as we do now,’ Ginger Saltos says.
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