Interested in a better backup strategy than Ledger, with wallet interoperability & resilience? Or data privacy? @BlockchainComns is holding this month’s Gordian Developer meeting at a Europe friendly time: 7pm CET, July 5th. DM me for a link, we’d love to have you attend! [1/4]
There will likely also be some discussions of Lifehash, a system to help users recognize seeds, and dCBOR, a deterministic variant of CBOR. Send me a message if you’d like to join us! [4/4]
And we’ll be demoing and discussing our Collaborative Seed Recovery (CSR) system, which focuses on not just the resilience of your cryptocurrency seeds, but also your personal choice in its storage. [3/4] https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Gordian/tree/master/CSR
We’ll be also be talking about our interoperable Uniform Resources specification for self-describing data, which integrates well with QRs. [2/4] https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/crypto-commons/blob/master/Docs/ur-1-overview.md
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It’s complicated. There has been a number of discussions in the #SiliconSalon community about the openness of silicon design and hardware in general. A good overview from one company perspective was presented last month. https://www.siliconsalon.info/salon4/presentations/#cramium-labs-presentation
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I also wrote a more general article on this topic in “Musings of a Trust Architect: Open Silicon” where I talk about some of the benefits and challenges: https://www.blockchaincommons.com/musings/musings-open-silicon/
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Let week @BlockchainComns hosted our monthly Gordian Developer Meeting. We were thrilled to hear from several bitcoin developers who are using our Gordian specs for wallet interoperability. [1/7] https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Gordian-Developer-Community/blob/master/meetings/README.md#detailed-list-of-meeting-summaries-with-archives-of-video-mp3-and-transcripts
We also had our first preview of CSR (Collaborative Seed Recovery). @WolfMcNally demonstrated how Gordian Seed Tool 1.6 can store metadata such as descriptors & notes with seeds, thanks to Gordian Envelope! A public beta is available in TestFlight! [4/7] https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/GordianSeedTool-iOS
Meanwhile, @craigraw told us about his recent introduction of Lifehash to @SparrowWallet and offered a great new use case: he added Lifehash so that users knew they were getting the right wallet when they typed in their BIP-38 passphrase! [3/7] https://sparrowwallet.com/
We heard from Bitcoin Development Kit’s Thunderbiscuit (@thunderB__) on his introduction to URs and how it’s important to move some of our specs into standards before we end up with competing standards for things like Animated QRs. [2/7] https://github.com/thunderbiscuit
We’d love to have more wallet developers at August’s meeting, which is scheduled for the 2nd. Sign up for our announcements-list or join us on Signal to stay in the loop. [6/7] https://www.blockchaincommons.com/subscribe.html
Slides, video, and summary of the meeting are available on our meetings page. [5/7] https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Gordian-Developer-Community/blob/master/meetings/README.md#detailed-list-of-meeting-summaries-with-archives-of-video-mp3-and-transcripts
Support @Blockchaincomns’ work on bitcoin wallet interoperability by becoming a monthly financial sponsor! [7/7] https://github.com/sponsors/BlockchainCommons
Always intrigued by improvements in protocols that leverage Schnorr signatures. This one appears to offer some of the robustness to FROST that ROAST offers, but without its performance issues. https://twitter.com/bitgould/status/1678409815444389888
Why is Gordian Envelope important? A new presentation for W3C’s VC-ED group discussed how it can solve problems with digital credentials, such as personal discrimination and institutional liability. [3/9] https://www.blockchaincommons.com/articles/Dangerous-Educational-Credentials/
A lot of the work continues to be on the privacy-preserving Gordian Envelope data format, which was ported to Rust in a set of new libraries this quarter. [2/9] https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/crypto-commons#gordian-reference-libraries
The new quarterly report from @BlockchainComns highlights its Q2 work creating open and interoperable specifications for the blockchain and digital asset communities [1/9] 🧵… https://twitter.com/BlockchainComns/status/1681340718219169795
One of the most exciting things happening at @blockchaincomns this year is the advancement of some of specifications in standards groups and other communities. The quarterly talks about everything from the Silicon Salon to dCBOR work at IETF. [7/9] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcnally-deterministic-cbor/
The Q2 @BlockchainComns report also looked back at some work that continues to be very well-received, including animated QRs, URs, and Self-Sovereign Identity. [6/9] https://www.blockchaincommons.com/devs/animated-qrs.html
Collaborative Seed Recovery (CSR) also continues to advance. Check out Wolf’s demo from our recent Gordian Developer Meeting. [5/9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fyICk0lwL0&t=3216s
Why else is Gordian Envelope important? A new set of use cases on wellness & activity trackers demonstrated how they can protect your data while still supporting your health as well as public health initiatives. [4/9] https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Gordian/blob/master/Envelope/Use-Cases/Wellness.md
To support our ongoing work creating a secure & compassionate infrastructure for digital assets & identity, please become a Blockchain Commons patron. [9/9] https://github.com/sponsors/BlockchainCommons
As for the future roadmap for @blockchaincomns, how about more Rust work, Gordian Seed Tool 1.6, a developer web site, more legal efforts, IETF in July, and RWOT in September? Read the quarterly report for all the details. [8/9] https://www.blockchaincommons.com/quarterlies/Q2-2023/
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