* [Kaliya and Seth welcome Dave Birch on Digital Financial Services and Smart Money](https://anchor.fm/psatoday/episodes/PSA-Today-21-Kaliya-and-Seth-welcome-Dave-Birch-on-Digital-Financial-Services-and-Smart-Money-el2hp7/a-a57pl5) 2020-10-15 PSAToday
> In today’s episode, we talk about his new book “Currency Cold War” and relationship, and lack thereof, between digital currency and identity.
* [IPR - what is it? why does it matter?](https://identitywoman.net/ipr%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8awhat-is-it-why-does-it-matter/)
> At the time they kept worrying about how they could collaborate and they sensed that they needed to have IPR dealt with, but I couldn’t understand what they were going on about. This small thing delayed them working together for a long time. They literally had to spin up a new organization, get new bylaws developed and get everyone to join and sign off on the IPR regime before they could formally talk together about how to get all work to align and come up with one protocol.
> The paper, written over the course of a year by six key authors, was produced by INATBA with the aim of defining the expectations for an open and innovative market in decentralized identity. It analyzes the current state of SSI developments and opens up discussion of the next steps, taking a clear stance on how INATBA would like to see development continue, making demands of the key stakeholder groups and setting goals for the future of SSI.
> I love that it’s more than a technical discussion. It’s laws. Sociology. Politics and civics. Commerce. Psychology. Ethics. History. Economy. All the humanities.
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> Identity touches everything. It always will. Computation and communication continue their pervasion, and identity spreads with them.
Hank explores different ways of understanding identity – including the Indiscernibility of Identicals, and essential and accidental properties. In what ways does affect identity? In what ways does it not? What does it mean for a thing to persist over time?
* [What occurs when physical beings transition to information beings?](https://www.mydigitalfootprint.com/2021/05/what-occurs-when-physical-beings.html)
* [Removing Anonymity Online Would Risk The Most Vulnerable Users](https://anonyome.com/2021/04/removing-anonymity-online-would-risk-the-most-vulnerable-users/)Anonym
> We all know online abuse can be incredibly damaging and [Pew](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/07/11/online-harassment-2017/)puts it like this: “In its milder forms, [online abuse] creates a layer of negativity that people must sift through as they navigate their daily routines online. At its most severe, it can compromise users’ privacy, force them to choose when and where to participate online, or even pose a threat to their physical safety.”
* [OWI Digital Identity Landscape: 2021](https://oneworldidentity.com/2021-digital-identity-landscape/)
> is a tool and framework we’ve developed to help provide an in-depth look at how Digital Identity applications are evolving and how intersections across solution segments are shaping next-generation strategies. Below is an example of one of the many framework overlays we use to assess the Landscape – click through the honeycombs to learn more about each segment.
### Never gets coverage
- Selfkey
- Shyft
- Kilt
- Safle
- Ontology
- Verus
Mostly Iffy
- Cheqd
- Dizme
- Civic
- Digital Trust Ventures - Timothy Ruff’s new company
