On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 10:42 AM Bigsy Bohr <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Also see Self-Sovereign Identity, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity>. Jeff
