Machine Learning Resistance for Human Rights on the Blockchain by Santiago Siri ( Devcon 5)

Bitcoins original white paper description of one CPU one vote (Nakamoto, 2008) shaped the software industry to think governance centered around machines, instead of humans. Although a fundamental right to privacy bent early blockchain design toward anonymity, this property facilitates the malicious use of Sybil Attacks (Douceur, 2002) significantly undermining the governance capacity of protocols. The importance of formalizing human identities can be inferred from centralized networks: major social medi