Doesn't mean Nostr Slop devs need to integrate more surveillance into their clients. #Spark

Thank God passport numbers aren't nsecs

True but that's not the contention. Dollars are digital too but, being able to use cash preserves some anonymity. A plastic ID affords custody to "prove" your identity to non-government entities without permissioned access.

How do you think they make the cards…

Also don’t most governments computers run on outdated hardware/software…

It would be nice to not rely on central issuer of identity. What if we were responsible for collecting and proving our own chain of facts that are private, verifiable and hard to recreate. Each event signed and hashed into open timestamps. Change the file and the proof fails. Interconnected gr...