Identity

Meet the Dad Who Registered His Daughter's Birth on the Blockchain
Santiago Siri celebrated the arrival of his baby daughter Roma this week in a rather different way – by registering her birth on the blockchain.

ShoCard's Quest to Secure Identity on the Blockchain
CoinDesk speaks to ShoCard CEO Armin Ebrahimi about his company's efforts to disrupt identity verification via the blockchain.

Keybase Project Plans to Make Cryptography as Easy as Twitter
Cryptographic keys are confusing to use and proving ownership is tricky, but a solution is in the pipeline.

BitPay Seeks to Decentralize Digital Identification with BitAuth
BitPay's latest contribution to bitcoin's infrastructure, BitAuth, finds the company tackling digital identity with bitcoin technology.

VC Fred Wilson: Block Chain Could be Bigger Opportunity than Bitcoin
The Union Square Ventures founder says the bitcoin protocol has bigger potential in key fields like Internet identity.

Bitcoin ID Verification Streamlined With Jumio's BISON
A new service by credentials management company Jumio hopes to streamline ID verification for bitcoin businesses.

How BlockScore is Making Bitcoin Regulatory Compliance Absurdly Simple
Blockscore aims to take regulatory compliance issues and automate them for bitcoin companies.

Coinbase opens instant bitcoin transfers for verified customers
The bitcoin wallet platform, CoinBase, has now enabled instant bitcoin purchases. Users will have to undergo identity verification.


