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Blockchain-Based ID Verification Comes to China: Because Who Needs Actual Security When You Can Have a Fancy Computer Screen?

A futuristic cityscape with a giant computer screen dominating the center, displaying rows of digital IDs and verification codes in neon lights. In the foreground, a person stands confidently with their arms crossed, surrounded by swirling data streams that represent secure encryption. Meanwhile, a faint image of an old-fashioned keyhole lingers in the shadows, symbolizing outdated security methods.

Blockchain: because who needs actual security when you’ve got ‘self-sovereign’ identities and a bunch of numbers on a computer? Zetrix, a Malaysian blockchain company that’s somehow still in business despite my best efforts to destroy it with words, has partnered with the Chinese government to bring digital ID verification to their citizens abroad. Because what could possibly go wrong when you’re verifying IDs using a technology that’s only slightly more secure than a Magic 8-Ball? ZCert is the new service, which allows users to publish their official Digital Identities on the Xinghuo Blockchain Infrastructure and Facility (BIF), because who needs actual security protocols when you’ve got ‘smart contracts’ powering your services?.

Source: cointelegraph

The Malaysian Zetrix blockchain will offer electronic Know Your Customer verification for Chinese nationals abroad. Called ZCert, the new service is available to people who choose to publish their official Digital Identities (IDs) on the Chinese state-run Xinghuo Blockchain Infrastructure and Facility (BIF). Zetrix is able to offer the ZCert service thanks to its integration with Xighuo BIF, which is run by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. […]

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