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I think that now that IPV6 has 2^128 addresses that some of these can be assigned to individuals as a unique ID, maybe at birth like SSN. It could serve as the base of a public key and secret private key blockchain system controlled by the individual or his trusted agent in some kind of identifier/authenticator system. If properly implemented it could serve as an anonymous ID and age verification system on the internet which seems to be coming soon in a not-so anonymous form to a fascist, commie or authoritarian govt near you, i.e. all of them as current events now show.

I don't know if that would work but it is an interesting idea to me. However, it also illustrates that authentication and protecting user identity on the web without sacrificing anonymity is a _political_ problem not a technical problem. I have always been told that when thinking about security you have to define what threat are you trying to protect yourself from. I see discussions on security and virtually all of them ignore that the govt or govt controlled corps (i.e. fascism) is a much bigger threat to individuals and freedom than so called "hackers" or "terrorists" and other boogie men, etc.