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decentralized-identity / ion

The Identity Overlay Network (ION) is a DID Method implementation using the Sidetree protocol atop Bitcoin
https://identity.foundation/ion
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What is mean by permissionless? #291

Open Muthurajj opened 2 years ago

Muthurajj commented 2 years ago

In the definition for ion it has mentioned as permissionless

What is mean by permissionless?

csuwildcat commented 2 years ago

Permissionless in ION means as long as you can run an ION node, which only relies on Bitcoin working and being able to expose data CIDs to IPFS peers, you can use/write to/interact with the ION network. Because ION is really just some Bitcoin + IPFS + some local processing logic, there's no one to permission, authorize, or dictate use, you are just using a protocol composed of completely open systems and basic logic your computer runs.

Muthurajj commented 2 years ago

Thank @csuwildcat for the reply.

In ION methods DID document need service endpoint ??