{"id":75976,"date":"2018-02-13T21:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T05:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/decentralized-digital-identities-and-blockchain-the-future-as-we-see-it"},"modified":"2018-02-13T21:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T05:22:44","slug":"decentralized-digital-identities-and-blockchain-the-future-as-we-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/decentralized-digital-identities-and-blockchain-the-future-as-we-see-it","title":{"rendered":"Decentralized Digital Identities and Blockchain \u2013 The Future as We See It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.decentralized-digital-identities-and-blockchain-the-future-as-we-see-it.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Howdy folks.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u2019ll find today\u2019s post as interesting as I do. It\u2019s a bit of brain candy and outlines an exciting vision for the future of digital identities.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 12 months we\u2019ve invested in incubating a set of ideas for using Blockchain (and other distributed ledger technologies) to create new types of digital identities, identities designed from the ground up to enhance personal privacy, security and control. We\u2019re pretty excited by what we\u2019ve learned and by the new partnerships we\u2019ve formed in the process. Today we\u2019re taking the opportunity to share our thinking and direction with you. This blog is part of a series and follows on Peggy Johnson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/22\/partnering-for-a-path-to-digital-identity\/\">blog post announcing that Microsoft has joined the ID2020 initiative<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t already Peggy\u2019s post, I would recommend reading it first.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudblogs.microsoft.com\/enterprisemobility\/2018\/02\/12\/decentralized-digital-identities-and-blockchain-the-future-as-we-see-it\/\">https:\/\/cloudblogs.microsoft.com\/enterprisemobility\/2018\/02\/...we-see-it\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy folks. I hope you\u2019ll find today\u2019s post as interesting as I do. It\u2019s a bit of brain candy and outlines an exciting vision for the future of digital identities. Over the last 12 months we\u2019ve invested in incubating a set of ideas for using Blockchain (and other distributed ledger technologies) to create new types [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1506,47,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-food","category-neuroscience","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}