Bitcoin prices hit a more than 20-month high this weekend as the digital currency broke the $500 barrier to reap big gains. Back-to-back breakout sessions on Friday and Saturday contributed to the development, which marks the end of one of the notoriously volatile digital currency's most stable periods.
IDEO coLAB member Dan Elitzer explores a framework for digital identity using blockchain and other technologies. In this op-ed, he fleshes out key areas in which he believes an identity system should function in an era of digital access and interaction.
In this opinion piece, Steven Malby, head of the Law Development Section of the Rule of Law Division for the Commonwealth Secretariat, advocates for the broader use of technology in bringing formal identity to the more than 1 billion people who lack legal recognition from governments worldwide.
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