On 2026-01-21, Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Decentralized identity providers exist that can be self-hosted, like > OAuth. These are highly obscure and probably a dead end: anything that > can be self-hosted can be abused to create infinite identities. > Important services won't want to trust an identity provider that they > don't control, again unless mandated to by law,
If you want decentralized identity, the correct stack is: DID + Wallet + Verifiable Credentials + Blockchain anchoring Not OAuth. Not Google. Not a central provider.
