There's an Alternative to Facebook, It's Called Self-Sovereign Identity

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<div>Entities that have authoritative knowledge of a claim about you can issue a verifiable claim and record they have done so in a <b>distributed ledger</b>. One example of a verifiable claim is date of birth - that is a fact that your parents register with the government, perhaps before you even come home from the ...</div>

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