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#Ethereum Founder Vitalik Proposes Pluralistic Digital Identity Systems

#ETH co-founder Vitalik Buterin warns that single digital IDs could destroy #pseudonymity despite zero-knowledge protections.

Projects like World ID with 10 million users risk creating trackable single-identity systems.

Platforms could force users into one public identity, eliminating separate pseudonymous profiles.

This exposes users to government surveillance and employer monitoring, according to the $ETH creator.

Buterin rejects proof-of-wealth systems that exclude poor users and concentrate power among the wealthy.

Pluralistic identity systems with multiple authorities offer the best realistic #privacy solution.

These could use social-graph verification or multiple ID providers preventing monopolistic control.

The goal merges one-per-person schemes with social networks to bootstrap diverse global identity.