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Semi-related — why don’t we create a service in which people make employment “claims” and other people (their managers/customers) sign these claims with their own keys, so these claims can be cryptographically verified by a third party in a distributed fashion?

This way, Linkedins basic premise of being a centralized “CV as a service” would become obsolete, leaving just the social network, which I personally would gladly abandon.





If it works you'll have a bunch of people faking it for each other, and if it doesn't then it's no different than anything else.

How would they fake it? Their own identity claims would need to be cryptographically signed.

Sign up an account with a randomly generated names to be the boss. Sign up other accounts with randomly generated names to be the employees. Have the boss vouch the employees work for him.

This is indeed in development although I’m not sure LinkedIn is involved yet. Look up:

Learning and Employment Records (LERs)




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