And only by retaining the pseudonymity of the Internet would people, especially journalists and so on, civil society people, voluntarily switch. If this is all real name basis, I don’t think it will carry much weight in such digital transformation. But if we get the decentralized identifier and verifiable credentials right, it means that it changes the attrition costs. So suddenly, instead of costing almost nothing to make 10,000 fake accounts, it will cost a lot by physically getting 10,000 people and trapping them into a room or something like that, which is not unheard of, actually.

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