Offline verification service, registration without email or phone number, selfies with dates,
street selfies, what next? you just trying to make a new North Korea to adopt a very strict rules and if someone not follow it, he would get a shot by unknown sniper.
He is not making a new North Korea. KYC procedures will widely be implemented in many services, it's inevitable because majority of people have no problem with it and even vote for it to get rid of money laundering and illegal activities because they think that KYC procedures will really get rid of it (while it won't) and have no problem if their data is leaked.
I think there is no safe way to make it difficult for thieves to use your stolen identity because it's super easy to get rid of watermark and with the advancement of AI in graphics, it's really becoming superior. Here is a new problem:
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/deepfake-deep-throat-woke-grok-open-ai-problem-fetch-ai-ai-eye/