The Global Identity Database
Blockstack: The Global Identity Database
Tuesday 2F Convener: Ryan Shea & Jude Nelson
Notes-taker(s): Guy Lepage / Ryan Shea
Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:
#blockstack, #blockchain, #database, #pki, #dns,
Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:
(The room was filled)
Who here knows what Blockstack is? No one
Why are you here? Seems most interesting
What type of blockchain are you using?
Ryan gave a quick overview of what blockchains are and what core services they provide.
Then, Ryan got into how Blockstack can operate on any blockchain but how and why the current Blockstack network operates on the Bitcoin blockchain.
- It’s the most secure
- There’s only really one strong, secure blockchain at the moment
Jude gave an overview of the Blocsktack architecture.
Note: Even more people coming in.
Note: People seemed to really like that they can run their own server locally.
Explanation of who the Blockstack community is:
- Companies like Blockstack Labs, Openbazaar, Mine, etc.
- Explained that you can think of blockstack as a new ecosystem
Question: “So everything is being stored onto the blockchain?”
What is the fundamental value prop?
- Ownership
- Federation
- This put self-sovereign identity within reach
- Global
- Trusted
- Verified
- Difficult to be taken down
- Secure
“It’s the sovereign identity we’ve been talking about for the past 10 years”
- Unknown IIW veteran
Why would someone want a permanent id?
- Root long
- Persona
Each namespace has it’s own name pricing rules and name expiration rules.
Can you talk about some use cases?
- Onename.com for identity management and single sign-on
- Openbazaar is using naming of the stores and id
- Developer Operations
- We are now working with Microsoft
- Question: is this going to be passport v2?
William King
- Is there going to be a Blocsktack Server that we can use?
