I feel like there was a time when we messed around with unregulated banking before.

I don’t remember what happened though…

Huh. Oh well.

Hey, yaknow what’s a funny word? “Contagion”. Hehe. What a weird word.

What was I saying? Eh, it’ll be fine.

They wouldn’t see what sites you give the tokens to — unless those sites choose to phone home, for some reason.

• You log in to the government site
• You ask for a token to prove your age/gender/whatever
• You copy the token
• You go to the age/gender-restricted site
• You provide the token
• The restricted site asks the government site how to verify any arbitrary token (but doesn’t mention your specific token)
• The restricted site verifies the token

So like, when do we get a government-run service to issue zero-knowledge proofs about us so companies have no reason to store stuff like this in the first place?