Who Gets to Say What’s True: The 5,000-Year Power Structure That Portable Identity Destroys For 5,000 years, power belonged to whoever could say: ”This is true about you—and you cannot prove otherwise.” Priests verified your spiritual worthiness. States verified your legal existence. Universities verified your capability. Employers verified your value. Banks verified your trustworthiness. Platforms … The Verification Monopoly
When Identity Becomes Portable, Platforms Become Optional Sarah deletes her professional networking account. Twenty years of connections, endorsements, recommendations, messages—gone. Doesn’t matter. Her Portable Identity carries everything that actually matters: cryptographically-verified proof she made 847 people measurably more capable, cascade depth of 12,000+ through four network layers, absence delta of 0.73 in her primary contribution … The Architecture of Platform Lock-In—And How Portable Identity Makes It Impossible