He explained these could be explicit, using social-graph-based verification like Circles, or implicit, relying on multiple ID providers — government documents, social platforms, and others — so no one ID gains near-total market share.
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Vitalik introduces ‘pluralistic’ IDs to protect privacy in digital identity systems
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Vitalik Buterin explains that pluralistic identity systems can function either explicitly through social verification (e.g., Circles) or implicitly through multiple existing ID sources, thereby avoiding identity monopolies.
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