Hundreds of millions? That might be exaggerating a bit.

Saw a journalist whining about “dependency on China” because they sell infrastructure for renewables… you can’t make this up

But now you’re giving your id to third parties. Why do you trust them more than your government, which has that data anyway?

The verification making sense and trust in government are 2 separate problems. Not defending here one or the other, just saying that the mixing up doesn’t help.

Why the comparisons with China? Doubt that they’re using zero knowledge proofs and open source.

Maybe we can find a best of both worlds outcome where we contribute to open source and have also competitive payment. Many of the „giants“ also contribute significantly to open source.