dear ethereum community, we need to fix and prevent this in order to both scale to, and protect the world. the next wave of apps will ask for a selfie and a passport page before you can even press play. that is a privacy leak waiting to happen and it does not help the apps, because storing millions of passports is a liability. remember the recent tea app breach when ids leaked? spotify does not want that headline. zero knowledge proofs give us a cleaner path. with one tap your wallet can show spotify only one fact: i am over 18 > no birth date > no address > no id number, nothing else. the math proves the claim while every other field stays hidden. everyone wins > users keep their personal data at home > spotify and every other platform cut storage cost and breach risk > regulators still get the age gate they want this is already possible with some of the zk snark tools that exist; what we are missing is polished ux that meets other companies where they are and loud education. ethereum fixes this. the world just needs to see it. proofs not passports.