What does your future hold when you cannot verify your proof of residence because of lack of fixed location or billing verifications?

I’m in a unique situation in many regards, I have no direct debits or standing orders or use a regular bank account, I have one bill that covers my rent, water, electric, heating that I pay mostly with cash made from income from residual income from online courses or crypto currency paid out by the blockchain.

I’m not trying to be difficult or awkward I’m just trying to survive and live out the life I want, the way I want too away from a world of often middlemen, poor budgeting, bad infrastructure decision making and back handers. I know because I’ve worked for local council and know how poorly run some of that stuff is, I’ve been through it. I’ve seen it first hand.

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Now don’t get me wrong, we need infrastructure, we need planes, roads, boats, service people, medical services, all the wonderful things that a modern civilisation has brought us, in fact in some regards it’s staggering that any of it exists at all at times, it’s a revolution in progress so I’m not knocking any of it I’m just saying that maybe it doesn’t always run at the speed of the tsunami edge of where the technology intersection now exists.

Recently I’ve been trying to get my verification validated by cryptopay.me and although we have done 2 out of the 3 methods, the last one is a stumbling block that has me concerned to the verifications methods that work and the ones that are obviously getting left behind by new technologies and progress in general — I was for instance verified for using the service revolut in five minutes, I was kinda blown away by that but that’s how it should be.

so what will define the priority?

One of the first videoblogging stories I did was at a church documenting people who were homeless that were coming together for a hot drink and some food and sleeping on a mattress in the church overnight on so many nights a week — it was my first vlogging project that wanted to expose the local newspaper saying it did’nt have a problem in the local area when obviously there was.

So now we have crypto and it’s decentralised nature, some people are living decentralised as well, no fixed address, constantly on the move between borders and locations, three months in one place, visa for another place for six months, obviously paperwork needs to go somewhere and while you can get that sent to an online service to be OCR scanned or forwarded when you need to produce bills for proof of residence that starts to become problematic.

So then, do we need a blockchain style service for people in flux in terms of location and movement, what are we asking anyway when we ask about where someone lives especially when most online databases are getting hacked these days anyway — we need something new, we need a better series of validation and verification checks that work better than just some local land registry lookup or proof of residence address which can probably be faked anyway — what I’m saying is the blockchain ledger is perfect for a persons movements, engagement, payments and otherwise.

Imagine how it could for instance revolutionise the basic old tried and tested curriculum vitae. Remove the paper component, remove posting five hundred or more cv’s to a business for them to run through a filtering system, what if you could absolutely prove that the person had done tests, had certain finances on the public blockchain, had people that could sign on behalf of you because of trust in the blockchain rather than the current methods we have.

could we have an ever moving, always relevant validation and verification system that you is you and that you can afford either your travel transition or validate you to be able to take a credit card backed by your blockchain assets?

What’s your thoughts? I’m kinda interested in this before this becomes a problem, maybe an ICO or blockchain already exists out there?