Big Tech stole your identity, and the fix everyone is reaching for is to take it back. But the most polished version of that fix just hands one bureau the power to make you acceptable everywhere, and to switch it off. The question that matters isn't how private your credentials are. It's whether you can leave.

The word "trust" is doing two completely different jobs. The blockchain industry collapsed them early. The Ledger of Consequence depends on one kind of trust to do the distinctive work of the other. They share a substrate. They serve different ends.