Although China successfully banned crypto-currency mining in order to cut their high-energy consumption, Bitcoin’s electricity consumption is still more than eight times higher than Google’s and Facebook’s combined, with an additional growth of 41% Year-on-Year. For that reason, more States…
The latest countries to update their identity documents to support biometric authentication: Sierra Leona: their identity cards are now being issued supporting biometric authentication, following ECOWAS regulations.Mali: new biometric identity cards.Guyana: new biometric identity cards for the issuance of work…
On February 9, the Industry, Research and Energy committee approved amendments to the European Digital Identity framework 2014/910 including zero-knowledge proofs of digital identities: to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time zero-knowledge proofs are been included…
A third of the countries in the world lack any kind of identity documents with biometric identification (i.e., biometric passports OR biometric identity cards): as of 2023 this proportion may seen to be very high, but they only comprise 6.7%…
The following countries have adopted biometric authentication on their identification documents: Portugal: their identity cards are finally contactless, in line with the rest of European countriesIraq: biometric passports are being issued to the populationHonduras: new biometric passports after many years…
It’s been 14 years since Satoshi Nakamoto first announced the Bitcoin paper to the Cypherpunk mailing list (October 31 2008). Today, 14 years later, we are happy to announce that the Fintech journal has published the paper of our consensus…
The latest country to update its passports to the biometric version is Saint Lucia. Since the announcement of our Testnet, a number of additional countries have announced that they are issuing new identity documents (i.e., biometric identity cards and/or biometric…
Unlike all the other crypto-currencies that lack a proper monetary policy, our crypto-currency will provide a modern monetary policy that optimally adjusts to changes of output, inflation and other macro-economic variables. Today, we are pleased to present the first stochastically…
We premiere a novel method of privacy-preserving authentication for blockchains, Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Identity (zk-PoI), enabling registration of blockchain nodes by anonymising Electronic Passports. Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Identity has the following advantages compared to other methods of blockchain node registration (PoW/PoS/PoP/PoA/...): it’s the only…
The list of countries with biometric IDs keeps getting larger: Jamaica: new biometric ID cardSuriname: new biometric passports have been approvedNational Identity Cards: Iraq, Lebanon, and Peru