9 January 2015, Holland FinTech Meet Up - Identifi

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Identifi Tim Pastoor @ Holland Fintech

Transcript of 9 January 2015, Holland FinTech Meet Up - Identifi

IdentifiTim Pastoor @ Holland Fintech

IdentifiDecentralized Web of Trust

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The Identifi Team

Tim Pastoor

CEO

IT Professional, Bitcoiner

Martti Malmi

CTO

First Bitcoin dev after Satoshi

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What Is The Current Problem?

The world is full of unknown people

● Anyone can say anything on the Internet● What information can you trust?● Who can you trust?● How can others trust you?

Sending messages is free

● Spam becomes a problem● Valuable content is a needle in the haystack

Contact details and accounts change all the time

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What Is Identifi?

Identifi is an address book application that stores its data in a distributed network on the computers of its users. The stored information is not owned or centrally administered by anyone.

In addition to keeping your contact details such as phone number or bitcoin address up-to-date, you can give other users trust ratings and feedback. You can filter all shown information by your web of trust, for example by displaying only the information added by your friends and the people they trust.

Identifi is free and open source software (MIT license).

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How Will Identifi Change The World?

● People can identify and trust anyone they meet face-to-face or online○ “Global village society” where everyone knows each other

● When anyone can see what trusted people say about you, you will want to be the good guy○ Incentive for public servants, who otherwise might not have

incentives○ You can always apologize and compensate for mistakes○ Non-violent justice

● Reduces the risk, and subsequently the cost, of trade and credit● Online identity shifts from corporate information silos to an open

network

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Identifi Web UI

● Identi.fi● Log in with FB / Twitter / G+ / Email / Bitcoin auth● Publicly verify any email addresses, URLs, phone numbers and other

identifiers as belonging to the same identity● Publicly disconnect expired identifiers from your identity● Write trust ratings and feedback to any identity● Refer to your Identifi profile when you need others to trust you● When viewing someone’s profile, you can filter the shown feedback

by your web of trust

IdentiThank you!Tim Pastoor

+31 6 303 111 [email protected]

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