Goodbye To Multiple Wet Signatures on Documents … and Hello To A More Trusted and Verifiable World

Here is a message for the future:

We are two million citizens, and we believe that the government should eradicate poverty within our villages, towns and cities.
-- Signed:
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This signature would include the verified identity of the two million citizens who had signed the message.

What a crazy 19th Century world we live in, and where we add our wet signatures to co-sign documents? It might be for an application for a loan where the company directors need to sign the last page of the loan agreement. The validity of the document is that each director signs the last page with a scribble. In the 21st Century, how can this even have any legal standing? Unbelievably, I see GIF signatures pasted into PDF documents for legal documents and then being seen as being acceptable for a signature on a document.

And so with digital signatures we can each sign with our private key, and which will verify both what we are signing and our identity. Our public key is then used to prove our identity. But each party will then sign their own…