David Birch - How to use Identity & the Blockchain | Dutch Blockchain Conference

Identity is the new money. Money will be easy to store and it will not be the role of the bank. Identity is complex, you have many virtual identities and for every reason you need different mechanism. Dave has a complex but intriguing story and delivers it with a lot of humor.
David Birch is the author of a fresh, original and fascinatingly wide-ranging short book about developments in the field, Identity Is the New Money. His is the best book on general issues around new forms of money, and new possibilities generated by blockchain technology.
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[@hvancann]

Anyone thinking of entering the field of Identity and Blockchain should first view to this clarifying talk of mr. Dave Birch. And understand there is a broad area of application of both (Identity and Blockchain), lots of inter-relationships but hardly any overlap. Birch: “The only relevant application of blockchain for identity is virtual identities in combination with some sort of distributed application."

[@AmeerRosic1]

Brilliant talk and with Humor!

[@travisthayer3840]

Great and informative talk!

[@rizwanuddin527]

In General Good Explanation .

[@rizwanuddin527]

I should take this to sky level before it touched to sky

[@richardscrivener351]

This talk is at the level of computing 101 and adds nothing insightful to the problem of secure digital identity management. It is also self contradictory. Birch acknowledges that the blockchain is a record of transactions not "things" and then proceeds to a discussion of storing "things" like finger prints, DNA signatures or a “virtual identity” on a blockchain, though he gets around this by proposing the CRUD transactions of a virtual identity are stored instead. He also misses the point that the transactions on the blockchain have their own identifying public/private keys which opens up a whole new problem of managing the keys that control access to your “virtual identity.” What he doesn’t do is demonstrate how blockchain technology delivers security features that cannot be delivered by other data management and processing platforms.
Save yourself 20 minutes and skip this talk.

[@VR60100]

Pl. see Blockstack.org where blockchain is used for identity in decentralized application (web 3.0)

[@locopatadita24]

Richard Scrivener i think it would be DLT resilence to attacks so the status of the virtual id is not altered. But he didnt mention that

[@hieneken100]

Well Articulated + Hilarious

[@bestelectronicmusicfromnew5189]

He said... we want privacy, we want money laundering...