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Yep. I didn't put it in my message because it was getting too long, but that's why I referred to crypto people trying to sort of square the circle. It's difficult to have accountability and anonymity.

There's some projects out there for verifying identities though. So it's possible. You definitely need to be "one person" for sortition to work. I mean, you want to have a proper deliberative structure for it anyway so there's gotta be discussion and so on. It's not something you where you can just skip deliberation altogether which kind of happens in a lot of these cases (for example, in referendum-democracy where people are simply asked to choose yes/no on a series of issues without them ever really engaging in the formation process of those issues).




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