This article comes fromCoinDesk, original author: Leigh Cuen
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, original author: Leigh Cuen
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Microsoft is launching a decentralized infrastructure built directly on the Bitcoin blockchain.
The open-source project, dubbed "Ion," aims to build a foundational mechanism for communicating with each other across networks. For example, if you want to log in to Airbnb using your Facebook information, a protocol could send your personal information from your profile on the social network to an external service provider (Airbnb in this example). In this case, Ion can handle decentralized identifiers that control the ability to prove you own the keys to the data in question.
Christopher Allen, an encryption "industry veteran" and co-founder of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Decentralized Identification (DID) Solutions Working Group, believes that Microsoft's move may affect the entire technology industry, saying:
“A lot of companies use Microsoft products in their infrastructure, so if Microsoft integrates this solution into any of their infrastructure products, it will have access to decentralized identity capabilities.”
Yorke Rhodes is the project manager of Microsoft's blockchain engineering team. He revealed that the Microsoft team has actually spent a year developing key signing and verification software. This software relies on public chain networks, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, but can Process transactions better than the underlying blockchain network itself.
Yorke Rhodes revealed that Microsoft is actually a founding member of the Decentralized Identity Foundation, adding:"We provide you with a privilege service in an enterprise environment in Microsoft's system, which is a product called Active Directory, and we think it is necessary for DIDs to be able to be identified."
Yorke Rhodes said that Azure-related infrastructure products and services are currently one of Microsoft's most popular products, and "Ion" may have a more far-reaching impact in these products and services, although it does not seem very eye-catching at the moment.
According to an anonymous source with knowledge of Microsoft's "Ion" project, the project is expected to transition from a testnet using bitcoin to the mainnet later this year.
. Therefore, any tech-savvy industry watcher and developer can run a node and contribute to the project."Microsoft says they're not afraid of bitcoin, and the fact that bitcoin has some really nice features that Microsoft is willing to take advantage of, I think, is a step in the right direction for Microsoft."
Taking a step back, there are certain differences between decentralized identity (DID) solutions and current identity infrastructure, which also means that allowing users to truly own their own content and access rights is at the heart of the problem. In the example of Facebook and Airbnb, if a decentralized identification (DID) solution is deployed, Facebook may close your social media account, but it cannot revoke access to all tools that rely on Facebook ID login, all Facebook Personal photos will belong to the user, the holder of the DID. That is to say,
With the help of decentralized identification (DID) solutions, even if Facebook deletes your account information on their platform, you can still use your Facebook ID to log in to Airbnb and other tools.
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However, it seems that Facebook is not very happy to cooperate with Microsoft on DID
According to another anonymous source, although Facebook has been invited to participate in Microsoft's DID project and community work, so far, the company has refused to try this new solution, choosing to continue to follow its traditional user data processing methods. . The anonymous source said:"Facebook and Microsoft are going in different directions, they are not decentralized."
The Wall Street Journal has previously reported that Facebook is looking to build a stablecoin-based payment platform, but they don't seem interested in the DID project. Christopher Allen revealed that he has not seen any efforts by Facebook to support the DID standard and the community, so it is likely to have differences with companies like Microsoft, because Microsoft is using the DID standard as the core of its business model.
Rouven Heck, the DID lead at ConsenSys and an active member of the W3C, has found Facebook to be conspicuously absent from the DID community discussions. Although York Rhodes, project manager of Microsoft's blockchain engineering team, revealed that he did not know whether there was cooperation with Facebook,
Yorke Rhodes believes that Facebook is completely on the opposite side of consumer privacy, and their business model is to profit from user data, which is a fact. Not only that, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee sent a letter to Facebook last week asking them to disclose the financial data of its code-named "Libra" (Libra) encryption project, but so far, except for some news reports, Facebook has shared almost nothing about the "Libra" project. details.
Christopher Allen believes that Facebook has only implemented some of the DID protocols, which enable data sharing in a proprietary manner, which can only benefit Facebook. A Facebook spokesperson also responded to how to deploy the blockchain system:
“Like many other companies, Facebook is exploring ways to harness the power of blockchain technology. We have a whole new small team exploring many different applications, but won’t be sharing more information at this time.”
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In stark contrast to Facebook’s cryptocurrency project, which appears to be antithetical to the ethos of encryption, both ConsenSys and Microsoft have chosen to make open source initiatives a core pillar of their business models.
Rouven Heck, Head of Decentralized Identity at ConsenSys and an active member of the W3C, said:
"If we can develop certain standards, it will definitely help the system to be established faster, which is beneficial to all of us, and the products we develop are useful to the entire industry, and they are not developed specifically for a certain niche area. exclusive product."
