In a world of infinite AI copies, one thing cannot be faked: your seconds. ybu.me is the story of an open protocol that turns the rhythm of being you — heartbeat, stride, touch, voice — into mathematical proof that no bot, deepfake, or database breach can ever counterfeit.
AI agents open accounts, pass the tests, write the reviews, and wear your face. Every defense we have either fails against machines — or asks you to hand your identity to yet another database that can be breached, sold, or subpoenaed.
A synthesized voice or face defeats any point-in-time check. One moment proves nothing.
Central identity stores are honeypots. Your biometrics are immutable — leak them once, they're gone forever.
Blockchain identity swaps one middleman for another: fees, latency, and a ledger you don't control.
On your phone, your watch, your laptop — a team of ten AI agents runs entirely on-device, each attending to one signal of your physical presence. They never phone home. They never speak of what they see. They exist to do one thing: recognize [me], second by second.
Up to 64 measurements per 15-second cycle. Each one is crushed into a hash — a shadow from which nothing personal can ever be recovered. The hashes grow a mini Merkle tree; the trees merge into one root; the root joins the network's heartbeat; and the network's Merkle trie flows back, chaining into your next proof. Forever forward. Impossible to rewrite backward.
1041.directory is open soil: standards anyone can grow trust from — banks, social platforms, robot fleets, insurers, voting researchers. 1041.io, the app, is the first dish served from that garden: a curated salad with its own secret sauce. Others will cook their own. The garden gets richer for everyone.
Open definitions of passive human signals: RF cardio-sensing, gait, keystroke & touch dynamics, biometric events, wearable vitals, context.
Per-second hashing, hash-of-hashes cycles — the discipline that makes raw-data exfiltration structurally impossible, not just forbidden.
Append-only Merkle accumulation with logarithmic proofs — continuity claims stay kilobyte-sized forever.
Thread roots join the HyperCycle Tilling process on the 15-second network heartbeat; TODA/IP proofs; no blockchain anywhere.
Standard proof formats any implementation can generate and any device can verify offline, deterministically.
Open discovery — how humans, agents, and services find and recognize each other's threads across the ecosystem.
Everything on this page runs today at 1041.io — installable on iPhone and Android straight from the browser, no app store required. Open it, and your thread starts with your next heartbeat.
The dot-me isn't branding. It's the point. Your identity ends in [me] — and for the first time, [me] is something you can prove without asking anyone's permission.
Integrations, partnerships, press, or the protocol itself — send a note and it lands directly with the founder. No CRM, no list, no tracking: the form mails your message and forgets you existed.