My Age Verification Solution Proposal

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

@anon37002130

Or do you not see any way to create a balance solution. As, in having a private age verification that just relays back that you are 18 nothing else?

I addressed your question somewhat in the livestream, but I also responded more generally in the other thread where you originally brought this up, in particular this quote generally sums up what I think about age verification systems

@jonah

Ultimately the problem with all possible solutions is government censorship.

Proponents of “zero-knowledge proofs” and similar technologies are too focused on the authentication process between themselves and the websites they are visiting and making that authentication as private as possible, but not on the underlying technologies that make that authentication possible in the first place.

Any age verification system will ultimately derive its knowledge from the government, who will be free to both 1) decide what needs age verification in the first place, and 2) decide who they will grant a digital ID to. The conflict of interest is inherent.