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Just finished reading this new outstanding paper on Proof of Personhood and why the required solutions are a lot more nuanced than just filtering humans vs bots. Will write up a summary thread soon.

Important work: in this era of AI and deepfakes, this is work recasts proof of personhood into a shades-of-grey measure, then finds pragmatic techniques to improve things

🤔Have you heard of Proof of Personhood? 💡 Learn more from Puja Ohlhaver, lawyer, innovator, technologist, & co-author of “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul”, and Mikhail, Founder of Idena. ⬇️ Apply to speak or grab your ticket! EthereumZuri.ch

This important paper offers a fascinating case study on the evolution of Idena's approach to online proof of personhood. Most crucially, it underlines the reality that proof of personhood will never truly achieve its goals without strong resistance to coercion and collusion.

The presentation of Puja Ohlhaver and Mikhail Nikulin, Idena’s founder, is today at 12:05 CET on the Surge stage EthereumZuri.ch Watch live here👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=JODkRN…

Looking forward to talking identity with Mikhail!

👋 Our seminar had to be postponed: it will now happen on Friday May 10th, 2024, at 11am ET. You can register at the same link: eventbrite.com/e/rxc-seminar-… (If you have already registered, there's no need to do it again)

Watch the recording of the Metagov seminar with Puja Ohlhaver , Mikhail Mikhail and paula berman 🦋 paulaberman.bsky.social presenting their research paper on proof-of-personhood, followed by discussions on identity and the puppeteering problem. The video is available here👇

Today at 15:50 at ETHBerlin04 , Puja and Mikhail will present their latest paper on Proof-of-Personhood. If you're at the venue, come and learn more about their in-depth analysis of Idena protocol.

Looking forward for the presentation at ETHBerlin04 Dm me if you want to say hi and meet in person

Puja Ohlhaver gave a banger. She goes over her study that shows even when you have proof-of-personhood (single vote per person), you still have capture. I love the end where she says we need to actually make groups and stand up for something. youtube.com/watch?v=-mwUQp…

Giving this talk with Mikhail was maybe the highlight of the year, especially the ending when the crowd erupted in applause. Thank you for the collaboration, Misha. 🙏🏽

One related point is that giving tokens away for free is not the only "form factor" that makes sense for this: you can also do discounted sales. I talk about reasons why to do this here: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/0… Depending on the degree of membership/contribution you can prove,

Puja Ohlhaver Thanks for the kind words, Puja! Your insights brought everything together. It was a pleasure working with you. Looking forward to our next adventure!

Watch the recording of the keynote speech by Puja Ohlhaver Puja Ohlhaver and Mikhail Nikulin Mikhail at ETHBerlin04. They shared key insights from their research paper and engaged with the audience during an insightful Q&A session. 👇👇👇 youtu.be/-mwUQp2qwjk?fe…

How can X generate more common knowledge? Check out my blogpost: "Common Knowledge Machines: From Community Notes to Community Posts" pujaohlhaver.substack.com/p/common-knowl…

Vol. 8, No. 1 is now live at stanford-jblp.pubpub.org. Find the print version at future Stanford conferences. Wulf Kaal Jin Xiaoli Puja Ohlhaver Mikhail paula berman 🦋 paulaberman.bsky.social Steve @clairebot_eth opentony Thought Follower @flogsell Rodrigo 🇻🇪 Decentralization Research Center PubPub Stanford Law School Tech Law & Policy

This is precisely what Mikhail paula berman 🦋 paulaberman.bsky.social and I warned about in our paper “Compressed to 0: the Silent Strings of PoP”—-the first empirical analysis and critique of PoP. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… (published by Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy)

🎉The paper 'Compressed to 0: The Silent Strings of Proof of Personhood' has been published by Stanford: stanford-jblp.pubpub.org/pub/compressed…

Since AI x crypto agents seem poised to take over the world, I’m throwing this *draft* into the wild for public comment, critique, and ridicule: 🚀 Community Currencies: The Price of Attention & Cost of Influence ---or--- 💡 The Price of Entry & Cost of Exit This paper is a