Well sort of.

Few issues….

1. Coinbase uses a ssn and that is all. SSNs are forged all the time. They also link to a bank and one thing done with a forged SSN is opening back accounts.

2. Coinbase would assume the liability for little gain.

3. Coinbase doesn’t require a state issued identity card like a driver’s license or passport.

My vision is one that any entity would have to see as absolutely vetted and verified and it would be “open source”, not the database of course which well wouldn’t really exist. The block chain would only know this token is this person, and this data goes with this token. This sounds risky but it doesn’t need to be.

That data would be decentralized. Yes I know someone lives in Jacksonville Florida, I know someone has had surgery for removing their tonsils, I know someone has been arrested for possession of pot, I know someone is a certified NRA instructor and I know someone has a DOB of 3-12-74, I know someone owns a 97 Pontiac, I know someone worked for Lockheed, etc, but I don’t know that that was one person or 7 people and I don’t know who he/she/they are?

What I do know is there is a token all that information goes with, the person that owns the token is the only one with the private key to it and that token can only exist ONE TIME ever.

If you have this with a process of review no one could legitimately dispute the identity as valid.

So you might have a two part automated verification and a two part human verification. The second human would never know who the first human was, the automated system would know who verified everyone. This would all but prevent fake IDs.

If you are bribed to put a fake one through the next human or computer is going to catch it and you are busted. If you are the second person on one and let it go, you are busted. Further making it like a double blind you wouldn’t know if you were the first or second party to review it manually, only the automated system would.

Know false ids could be put through as on the fly audits! And as a quality control method.

A sand box could be made for company training with a indicator of everyone crated in this world as being fake but the actual simulator would test new people until they were 100% at identifying fakes.

This is actually better than anything government does.

I would say that to get this id you would need….

Birth Certificate
State Issued ID or Passport
Finger Printing
Background Check

As to adding details to your token like education achievements, etc. this could be largely automated and work a lot like how miners verify transactions today. The small fee would be paid by the owner of said ID.

There would also need to be a way for the system itself to append all public actions in the VN to the token.

IE – We contract inside Libertas to have you design a website for me. You do the job and I take exception to deliverable. We go to arbitration, the arbitrator sides with me, you make the concession, do the extra work and I pay you. We both end up satisfied.

Your token, my token and the arbitrators token should all reflect the parts of this that apply to each of us.

Now I can’t see your token but if we do business again, I ask you to provide the information, you do so, I see not just what I know but that since the last time you did 4 more projects, you completed them all and no further arbitration was required. I am very likely to hire you again, you are also likely to have a more clearly defined statement of work for me, we are less likely to end up in another misunderstanding. Your next person knows that even I who had a dispute with you rehired you. Big points right?

The big thing is the process should be so intensive that anyone saying, that ID isn’t valid would clearly look like an idiot, cause the State is going to do exactly that and deny the validity of the ID and therefore the citizenship in the VN.

The battle will end up in the court of Public Opinion and if you dot every I and cross every T you can win that battle.