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CrimsonRoze

Hi people. I've been looking for a gravatar style service based on bitcoin public addresses rather than emails since I'd rather share a piece of information that is public, than one that is private.

(My email is private)

After looking around I have found blockbadge.com who claims to offer that service but they are having technical issues and I can't even create an account with them. Preferably I would like a service in which I can login to the service with BitID and then upload any (short) key:value pair of information I want, not only avatar images. I would also like to sign all data I supply so that there is permanent proof that I claim to be linked to the data I've supplied. No backsies.

Does anyone know of such a service? Would anyone be willing to create one if it does not yet exist?

I would find such a service valuable and if it hosted some fields for free (name, avatar) I would not mind paying to host more information (birth, age, gender, location, email, phone numbers) with it.

I guess what i'm saying here is that I would like to take one of my public addresses, and make it my identity by publicly linking it to personal information about me.

(I would also make more than one identity, and use them differently.)

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  • RockHoward

    'Proof of Existence' is a service that helps you claim that a given file existed at a certain point in time.That is very close to what you need. Since that service has an API, building a little more functionality on top of it for the purposes that you propose seems quite doable. If you need help with that, let me know.

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  • CrimsonRoze

    @rockhoward 'Proof of Existence' is a service that helps you claim that a given file existed at a certain point in time.That is very close to what you need.

    No, it's actually quite far from what I need. Proof of existence does not help distributing the information and it also stores the proof directly in the bitcoin blockchain, creating further burden for miners and full nodes to deal with.

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