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I don't see how this works in reality - The issue is that users wouldn't upload negative information (e.g. county court judgements or the bank robbery from your example).

Credit isn't like insurance where these things can be checked later during a claim (which can then be denied) - you need to know the person is a bad-payer before you send them the ten thousand dollar loan as that affects the terms, not afterwards when they default and you can't get your money back.

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For CCJs and bank robberies, you'd upload a clean sheet from the government that gives a list of all CCJs and criminal convictions (in the UK we have a system called DBS for criminal records).

Potentially, with loans or other things, some kind of technical solution could work. You could have a personal document that you control, and you give permission for companies to write to the document.

With a loan, for example, if I give you a loan, I can also append to your document that I've loaned you the money; for every payment you make, I write to the log to say you've made a payment. If you stop making payments, I stop writing to the log. This would be cryptographically signed by me, so it can't be forged.

When you want to take out another loan, you can proactively share your document, the bank can see everything written on the log, and make a decision based on that.

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Naively, credit is if you can pay, and if you will pay.

For the latter it’s whether you’ve had a judgment against you, which is a matter of public record.

For the former it’s based on how much money you have and what you spend, including on servicing existing debt. Lying about this would be fraud. In that sense, my proposal does indeed open up a new avenue for fraud but I don’t think that’s the same as it being unworkable!

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So what. Maybe it is corrosive to society to provide unsecured credit willynilly. Yes, it makes the banks giant amounts of money, but IMHO consumer credit should only be a thing for two classes of assets (that can be repo'd easy-ish) real estate and vehicles.

The Western governments have horribly failed of caring for their people - cost of living are exploding, and at the moment way too many people are papering over that with unsecured credits backed by their data being free to exploit, and everyone else not willing of doing that is increasingly locked out of existence.

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The point of the credit agency is to work for the lender?
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…is the title of my sex tape!
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