

Misleading title. They recognize preuploaded photoes of parents, not age itself, as I got it from the article.
But they’d eventually want to pass it to adults too for ‘security’. ESRB kinda wants spend some money on whatever sticks, but they aren’t interested in that long-term as some Epic. Wouldn’t they like to implement their tools for that and require their usage?
There are invite-based systems since the dawn of the internet, notably torrent trackers and closed forums, and mods can see who vouched for them. It’s not worth it unless the community has something unique to offer (i.e. new blueray rips, non-public deals). Adding crypto to it doesn’t add anything of value.