you can do the same thing with a client certificate, boom, you are who the cert says you are.
you can do the same thing with a client certificate, boom, you are who the cert says you are.
yes, agreed. But they do a lot more than let you speculate on cryptocurrencies. Right now I'm working on wallet for people who have zero interest in speculating on cryptocurrencies.
> you can do the same thing with a client certificate
yes agreed. You can think of web3 as a better PKI. I do.
interesting point.
from a UI perspective, it's kinda true.
could have been their killer app, if the whole ecosystem thought about it, but in the end it's been just a byproduct of something that proved zero usefulness and even the "better PKI" argument it's been somewhat replicated by letsencrypt for HTTPS and it will for everything else when a sufficient number of users will show interest for it.