Insureblocks Blockchain & Smart Contracts In Insurance

IDunion is a new European decentralised identity management platform that is promising to bring user centric digital identity with privacy at its core. In this podcast we had Adrian Doerk – Product manager at Lissi and communication & Public relations at IDunion, walk us through IDunion.   What is blockchain? For Adrian, blockchain is just a data structure. When you expand its definition from a DLT (distributed ledger technology) perspective with multiple nodes on a network what makes it interesting is whether the rights to writing on the network are permissioned or permissionless. This is determined by the type of consensus that exists on the network who determines who and what is written into the network.   Present challenges with digital identity History of the digital identity on the internet: Isolated siloed identity where users would login and authenticate themselves with the provider of a digital identity for accessing a service Federate identity where multiple companies and institutions got tog