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A DID (Decentralized Identifier) for Everything: Unified DIDs for Anything Decentralized

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Maintainer: Samuel M. Smith · 2019-01-29 · checked 2026-10-15

A 36-slide talk by Samuel M. Smith at the BlockChain Kickoff Summit, 2019-01-29 to 30, on using DIDs as unified identifiers for data. It traces the path from decentralized reputation to Decentralized Autonomic Data (DAD), and covers derived DIDs (dDID), Decentralized Autonomic Data items (DADi), diffuse-trust security principles and data flow provenance. It predates KERI.

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