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Comment by euphemize | Hacker News Reader

But what is it? What does it do?

"Introducing your passcard!", "Choose a registrar", "Your all access pass to everything.", "A system giving users control of their identity."

I still have no clue what this thing is, or why I would want it.

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Yeah I closed the tab after the "What is passcard" copy gave no extra information. I am still not convinced this wasn't something generated by that great startup generator.

See this blog post for the appropriate context:

http://blog.onename.com/passcards/

This was submitted to HN earlier in the morning [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9524702

That's information that should be on the homepage, not hidden away on some blog.

Seconded. Shouldn't have to understand the "context", that should speak for itself

Passcard is a decentralized, blockchain-based identity system.

The idea is to give you back control of your online identity, which you currently do not own (you either rent or borrow it from companies like Facebook and Twitter). With the blockchain, you can actually own your digital identity.

Onename will (hopefully), remain a "default" but not essential intermediary.

Passcard will hopefully replace login systems like Facebook Login, Twitter Login, etc.

Info: I do not work for Onename, I am not paid by them, but I collaborate with them because I believe in the importance of decentralization and they are helping with that.

Here: "Passcard is a decentralized, blockchain-based identity system." -> This should be their tag line.

For those curious, there's also BlockchainID (something I've worked on):

https://github.com/okTurtles/blockchainid

And BitAuth:

https://github.com/bitpay/bitauth

Yea can someone explain what this does... I'm all the way at the sign up page and still have no clue what its for...

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