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Comment by cmeacham98 | Hacker News Reader

Quickly skimming the site, it seems like Idena validates identity by having all users solve a turing test at the same time.

I fail to see how this ever scales. Surely as the user count increases it becomes extremely difficult to get all the users to be ready to validate themselves at the same time?

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It may scale when you think it as putting yourself or your reasoning consciousness as stake in the system (instead of hardware or financial capital) by actively contributing human deducing capacity and taking responsibility once every 2-4 weeks synchronously. Android and mobile validation apps may also do their part in easing and scaling this thing to more users because of the nature of synchronous validation parties. I reckon Idena is among the most reasonable options when considering the "Decentralized Identity Trilemma".

This, plus who knows how long we can rely on the Turing test.

The current data on language-neutral AI-hard tests (analogous to Winograd Schema Challenge (save the textual representation) reasonably concludes that the current AI apparatus cannot sustainably achieve a human-level score (92% or above) on the FLIP-like tests as are used by Idena Network. FLIP creation by humans probably offers more protection from any of the bots and AI recognition schemes available as of now. Let's see what the future brings in this yet unknown realm.

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