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something like 2 billion people have a phone with a secure enclave capable of this in their pockets today - and they use it everyday for logins, payment and paying at the car park.

We have the penetration

(Afaik smartphone penetration is around 4.5-5 BN, and something like 50%+ have secure enclaves but honestly Indont follow that deeply so would defer to more knowledgeable people)

>>lifeis+(OP)
That’s not your identity, it’s an access token protected by an advanced lock screen (which is greatly useful, but not the same). If you lose your device, the way you get back into your accounts is your de-facto identity—usually it ranges between the email you used during signup to your govt id.

There isn’t a widely deployed public key network with keys that represent a person, afaik. PGP is the closest maybe?

>>lifeis+(OP)
> something like 2 billion people have a phone with a secure enclave capable of this in their pockets today - and they use it everyday for logins, payment and paying at the car park.

They don't own a key pair. They carry one around, which is owned by google or some other entity?