Welcome to Decentralized-ID.com!
Infominer
In 2017, Inspired by @peacekeeper’s blockchain-identity list, I began working on my own curated list of resources related to decentralized identity.
I saw that decentralized identity has a deep historical context, and saw its potential for being the blockchain use-case, beyond currency.
From the amount of information spread across the web, but not quite accessible to the uninitiated, I knew this community could appreciate aggregation and organization of its information ecosystem.
What began as a single page of links in a Readme file on GitHub, has grown to become the largest web-directory of information related to Self Sovereign Identity.
Identity Woman
In 2018, I connected with Kaliya ‘Identity Woman’ Young who has ever been working on similar efforts, to map out the organizations and protocols and leading thought surrounding decentralized-identity.
She became my guide through the vast web of connections and associations with SSI, and editorial advisor for this site.
Identosphere
In 2020 we launched a reboot of the original identity management feed aggregator planetidentity.org.
The Identosphere Blog Catcher aggregates hundreds of RSS feeds, with pages for personal, business, organization, and web3 blogs.
Once the feed aggregator was established, we began a weekly newsletter called Identosphere’s Weekly Digest, using the Blog Catcher as its primary source, along with a weekly twitter search.
Getting an Upgrade
Now with over 2 years of content collected in the newsletter, we’re sorting that content into this directory, upgrading the processes by which its stored and displayed, and cleaning up any old-outdated content created as I was initially learning and discovering these processes.