Hello everyone. And thank you for being here. I know it's like I know the party's already started. So And yeah, I'm looking at you, Carlos. Uh so thanks again for being here.
My name is Miros. Thank you for the nice introduction. Um I work in in Privado ID. And I want to talk a bit about why I think that that our and I say our because I consider myself to be part of the movement Cypherpunk approach to self-sovereign digital identity does not work. So we have been trying for years, right?
To to to build tools that will protect people and to use all the cryptography and technology that we have, but how far have we actually got? Um we are offering full user control, privacy, decentralization, anonymity, and business that is actually building applications for people to use. And I'm not talking about us, right? In a Web3 bubble. I'm talking about people here on the street.
Uh well, these businesses they want UX, they want integration, they want compliance. Um what are the key challenges? Well, these, right? First one is the usability. Talk about um private keys, verifiable credentials concept, multi-chain, a lot of words that are un-understandable for a lot of people, right?
Um ease of integration. If we are talking about people that need to use our technology or let's say businesses to use our technology, decentralization most probably not going to work or comes with a lot of hurdles, right? And we need to work with legacy systems if we want billions of people actually to benefit from all this. Compliance. Uh sadly, but we know that the KYC, AML, and other stuff are required, right?
Like it or not. So, the Cypherpunk vision of total privacy and anonymity is is an ideal, right? And I'm not saying to kill that, right? We need to keep the ideal there and work toward that, but um we need to change some stuff. I hope for an incremental approach.
Um I'm just going to take one example here, right? And an opportunity, but there are much more of these out there. Being the European digital identity incentive. So, they recognize the problem, right? That the privacy of the regular people, of the common people, is in danger.
Um and their solution is not ideal, right? Uh they offer selective disclosure, data minimization, verifiable credentials. It's a good step forward, but it's not it's not Cypherpunk, right? But I think we should join this. We should hop on the bandwagon because um we can influence things.
We can try to change some stuff. And and actually, this is why I'm here, right? I would like that that this debate happens here between all of us and all of you that are out there on the internet. Um so, what we could win, right? We could promote privacy-first standards.
We could encourage more adoption. We can actually have more private and decentralized alternatives. Um Jordi Baylina yesterday in his talk mentioned, and I agree with that, although it's not ideal, right? I would rather trust my um private data with a government than with a corporation. Again, it's not ideal, but it is a step forward, right?
And no, this does not mean that we stop fighting, right? Um I I you all to think critically about building, advocating, or using, right, the solutions that are both streaming towards Cypherpunk, right, but are adaptable and can be used in real world, right? Let's please try to balance, right, um idealism with practical constraints. So, we can achieve more with what we have today streaming towards the ideal world, right? Um there were a lot of talks and and I like the the the the talk the that was here the previous from Evgeny and and the other one, right?
Um And yesterday there were a lot of also talks about um Cypherpunk movement. Um it is important. All of you need to join if you are not part of that. But again, I advocate for an approach that is incremental, that we think not only about ourselves, but we think about the people that are out there on the street. That doesn't mean that we do not need tour, that we do not need all the tools for journalist, for people that are doing really important things.
That yes, but also yes for the common people, right? The struggle continues. I'm Miros. Thank you all. Thank you very much.
Thank you. So, we will have some time to ask a few questions. Hop, raise your hand if you have any question. I I can throw the the the red square at you. Oh, you want to?
No, no, no, I mean I'm challenging. Oh, okay. Any question? Oh, over there. Do you Do you want to throw it?
No, no. Hop. I don't want to hurt the the CSO of my company. Miros, obviously there are a lot of examples that you've described of ways in which things are sub optimal. Now, ourselves aside, who else is doing it right?
Like are there government leaders, are there enterprises, are there uh you know, idealists or leaders who we should look to in our institutional structures as potential partners? I think yes. I mean, you whoever was on bunch of all these talks that happen here and they are going some going to happen tomorrow and the day after, there are people, right? They are trying to do all this and of course it's I I know our team best and and we are trying the best that we can, but I really like for example that having the the initiative coming from the European Union, that's 650 million people that tomorrow can have privacy towards Amazon. Yes, where do I sign, right?
But that's not the end game. So, there are people there are things that we can do and and that's it, right? No, you're right. Absolutely. That's a great call out.
European Union and also shout out to the Ethereum Foundation for showing up this week on this topic, too. Yes. Yep. Thank you. And that's a drop mic, literally.
Any more questions? Okay. No? Well, thank you very much. Please give a nice round of applause to Miros.
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