“The Ethereum community has accidentally solved a major problem of the Internet

„At first it looks like Social Sign-In fragmentation but it's not. These are competing wallet UIs that all use the same basic Eth account sys“

How does any of this make it easier for me as a user? Competing wallets, competing social logins, all the same at the and with the difference that username/pw is easily portable to another one of my systems. Oh I chose a wallet that doesn‘t have a client on that other platform I use, too bad. Okay I can use a different one, let me just safely transfer my keypairs…

It might be better to centralize the identity layer instead of going the OIDC route of having many identity silos but a shared protocol; so your identity is actually a singleton but from a usage perspective I doubt this will solve anything.

Avoiding the Google, or Facebook, or whatever Social Sign On dependency to then adopt an Ethereum SSO dependency doesn't seem like "the ethereum community has accidentally solved a major problem of the Internet."

The sign on problem will be ameliorated - not solved - once everyone has access to one (or several) hardware authentication device(s) and systems start implementing better multi-factor authentication schemes.

So the problem: managing different accounts across different sites/“services” is annoying.

The solution: you pay (crucial point no one is mentioning - no one is going to pay for this) to register a domain which acts as your internet passport/bank account across every site that supports it and to access this account you will need an auto generated private key which will need to be stored somewhere because it’s too long to be memorized, requiring a password manager which is where we are at right now already.

Considering Google SSO would also integrate with Google Pay, I’m not quite sure of the unique value prop here besides distributed systems woo that only nerds like us care about. Plus the current gas fees for Ethereum are one of the top complaints about it from end users. Nothing is going to sour the first experience more than seeing “DOMAIN FOR JUST $5 ^*(+ $39.99 shipping and handling)” It almost seems irresponsible from an adoption standpoint to make such bold claims about the tech with such huge issues like this still unsolved.

Not something new and not "an accident".

Really sad that Mozilla Persona did not catch on.

Federated login has existed for a while. The main diff w/ Eth is the way it works with its keys. But saying it "solved a major problem" is a real stretch. You could say the same about Okta and the like. Stuff like this has been around since the 90s.

The main problem I see w/ Eth login is that it relies on your credentials being on the machine, and makes propagating those to other machines harder for non-tech folks. Whereas the whole user/pass solution is much easier to follow for the common person.

This is one of the biggest use cases for "crypto assets" that I can think of. Perhaps the only one, aside from ring of trust and public key distribution.

And then there's https://gazepass.com, a Passwordless Login API that uses your mug instead.

instead of a landrush for names on each service, you get a land rush for ENS names and somebody has already beaten you to the good ones https://app.ens.domains/address/0xAb48EdD90bdF367d326D827758...

What happens if I lose my private key?