Title has been modified by this submission. Actual title of article is Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer.

Most people outside of a narrow set of cryptography engineers are unfamiliar with the term anonymous credentials, while age and identity verification are two privacy-invasive requirements that are being heavily discussed and rapidly being written into laws lately. The post's intro discusses both quite heavily, and they form the author's entire motivation for writing the post.

The central question the post attempts to answer is "The problem for today is: how do we live in a world with routine age-verification and human identification, without completely abandoning our privacy?"

My rephrase is an attempt to surface that, compared to the dry and academic title that will get overlooked. I think this is a very important topic these days where we are rapidly ceding are privacy to at best, confused and at worst, malicious regulations.