I’ve been building Signet, a mutual attestation protocol that cryptographically links a PGP key to an Ethereum address. The whole thesis is self-sovereign identity: you prove who you are, on infrastructure you control, without asking anyone’s permission.
When I hit publish on this blog, something unusual happens. The words you’re reading don’t live on a server somewhere—at least, not in the traditional sense. They exist as content-addressed data scattered across a distributed network, pinned to nodes around the world, accessible through pathways that no single entity controls....