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justsomehnguyyesterday at 2:36 PM1 replyview on HN

> - Belongs to exactly one real person.

> - That a person cannot own more than one of.

These are mutually exclusive. Especially if you add 'cannot be tied to a real-world identity'.


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gruezyesterday at 3:13 PM

The way that this is usually implemented is with some sort of HSM (eg. smart card, like on a e-id), that holds a private key that's shared with hundreds (or more) other HSMs. The HSM part ensures the key can't be copied out to forge infinite amounts of other identifies, and the shared private key ensures it's vaguely anonymous.

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