ETHBerlin<<04<<<<Identity<<Crisis<<

The ETHBerlin04 hackathon invites participants to build "anti-identity" features that protect privacy, arguing that blockchain ecosystems have lost shared values and are reinforcing the failures they were meant to fix. The text says the blockchain space faces a multi-dimensional identity crisis, and it questions whether personhood verification, KYC and AML are necessary or unacceptable. It quotes Vitalik Buterin saying a world without proof-of-personhood seems more likely to be dominated by centralized identity solutions, money or small closed communities. The event, held May 24-26, 2024 in Kreuzberg, Berlin, asks hackers to focus on attributes such as private, independent and libre.