Author: BipedalJoe, Year 18
Pseudonym Pairs is a dApp for global proof-of-personhood, through monthly pseudonym events that last 20 minutes, where every single person on Earth is randomly paired together with another person, 1-on-1, to verify that the other is a person, in a pseudo-anonymous context. The events provide NYM tokens, global personhood tokens, untraceable from month to month and disposable, a sort of “temporary access tokens” similar to festival bracelets. The proof-of-personhood is that you are with the same person for the whole event.
Within the 1-on-1 pairs, people can socialize as they want, and can be seen as being employed in government positions, expected to stay within the pair for the entire duration of the pseudonym event. The 1-on-1 pairs is the standard organization, requiring mutual verification. In the case of a problem, such as a bot attacke