Vitalik recently posted an article to his blog critiquing Worldcoin and proof of personhood approaches in general. There are some great thoughts which I'd like to respond to, and make it better known what BrightID's approach is, especially since a lot of it is tied to Aura--a new verification method for BrightID, which had an initial beta release and is undergoing major changes based on the feedback from beta testers.

I've written about commons in the following posts.

Structuring a resource as a commons is an attractive alternative to private ownership or so-called "public" ownership (by a government) because of the increased participation it provides.

I wrote about my personal mission: "to pay all of humanity for the use of the commons, and let everyone touch and shape the commons again." I would add to that now "to make commons more common." I wrote about some ways to do that.

Even though I'm a proponent of universal basic income (see "How much poverty should exist in the world" by Philip Silva), I prefer to focus on universal dividends. What's the difference? A universal dividend can be more or less than the value of a basic income. Multiple dividends can coexist, whereas UBI typically connotes a payment from a single source.

I'm capturing my thoughts on Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul.

I've spent the past three years trying to lay the groundwork to enable universal distributions.