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> Those are not signifiers for my entire digital life

neither would a wallet, "only allow access with government issued ID" can be done (and _is_ enforced for some things) independently of central-bank-issued wallets or government IDs. They are just orthogonal things.

Most of the EU has had access to electronic IDs for years, but they are not used to log in to hacker news, and there is no reason to expect them to ever be.



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