after Finding a clean entry point in ETHEREUM i went back through the identity section this morning and the sierra leone numbers stopped me cold 😂
honestly? 73% of citizens have identity numbers. only 5% hold actual identity cards. that 68 point gap is where 66% financial exclusion lives. not because payment infrastructure doesnt exist. because the identity layer underneath it has a hole that everything else falls through.
the whitepaper uses this as evidence that identity is prerequisite infrastructure, not a feature. the argument is airtight. you can build a perfect payment rail and a functioning benefits distribution system and still fail to reach two thirds of the population if they cant prove who they are to access either one.
what i keep sitting with is the direction of the dependency. fix identity first and everything downstream unlocks. but identity enrolment at national scale requires reaching the same populations that current systems already fail to reach.
the people without identity cards are often the same people without reliable connectivity, without documntation, without proximity to enrollment infrastructure.
identity as the unlock for everything else - or the hardest infrastructure problem quietly sitting at the bottom of a stack that assumes it is already solved?? 🤔
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