I might have a kind of answer there from a friend of mine here in NZ who knows blockchain stuff pretty well and a potential co-opeditor to these guys called SWERL (see below).. and he said..

"They've got a good approach to use social identity for social purposes with the blockchain providing a sort of database. A new take on website logins but suspect they are going to struggle with the network effect.

Our focus is identity of machines, devices, objects, etc. so that's quite different from social identity. Also, our approach makes sense in the context of a new internet that we're building, e.g. we don't use IPv6 other than for co-existing with the current Internet. Instead, our notion of identity is based on a PKI cert (which really doesn't work for humans as we know but works great for objects to design in security).

Our updated website http://swerl.io/ now gives a better idea of the direction we're going. Have a look...

Thanks again,
Vikram"

From: Ingo.Friese@telekom.de
To: stollman.j@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:46:43 +0100
CC: dg-idot@kantarainitiative.org
Subject: Re: [DG-IDoT] Fwd: story of interest

Interesting, but to me is not really clear to me where they use block chains…

 

From: dg-idot-bounces@kantarainitiative.org [mailto:dg-idot-bounces@kantarainitiative.org] On Behalf Of j stollman
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Subject: [DG-IDoT] Fwd: story of interest

 

All,

 

Perhaps there is an identity solution applicable to IoT already in development.  This approach uses blockchain and is funded by some major VCs.



 

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