China to verify citizen identities with new blockchain-based platform

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Blockchain technology will be used to verify the real-name identities of China’s 1.4 billion people, according to an announcement from the Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), China’s national-level blockchain initiative – a move likely to spark concern among data-privacy advocates, reports Coindesk. China’s Ministry of Public Security spearheaded the initiative, called RealDID, with help from BSN. […]