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		cuteboy19 on Feb 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web3 doesn’t care about privacy Consensus is not necessary to establish identity. Normal cryptographic primitives are sufficient for all identity schemes. Blockchain is just completely unrelated to the "one login all websites" idea.

douglaswlance on Feb 7, 2022 [–]

If you want to store user data with consensus, in a tamper-proof way that can be universally accessed you need to use blockchains.

Or invent a new technology.

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