Replying to @bitcoinmom
You don’t need a public key or address to sweep a Bitcoin encoded private key. They all can all be derived from it.
Replying to @clayforsberg
Though I agree there are inequities, I’m not sure $ the right one to focus on. Landowners would like existing system. Others?
Heading to #NYC for @RealWorldCrypto #RWC — l greatly appreciate the mix of academic & practical engineering experience at prior events.
RT @ChristopherA: ⓿This tweet storm isn’t about the symptoms: Trump, Brexit, UN, Bitcoin scaling, etc—it is about systemic problems facing…
RT @ChristopherA: ❶I’m challenged by “majoritarianism” beliefs of others: a) a plurality win is not a majority b) 50% +1 majority is 100% l…
RT @ChristopherA: ❷Greg Slepak @taoeffect of @Group_Income writes in detail about flaws in May’s Theorem about majority rule: https://t.co/…
RT @ChristopherA: ❸In @taoeffect’s analysis majority rule is best for small groups for regular, low-stakes reversible decisions. https://t.…
RT @ChristopherA: ❹Related to the problems of majority rule is that Arrow’s Paradox proves that there is no perfect voting system: https://…
RT @ChristopherA: ❺Collectively we must require consent of the governed. But large # number of possibilities in spectrum of consent: https:…
RT @ChristopherA: ❻There are many systems for collective social choice — we need to explore more & improve them.
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/12/systems_for_col.html
RT @ChristopherA: ❼One insight is that we often confuse deliberation & voting systems. 1st we need better deliberation, then pick voting sy…
RT @ChristopherA: ❽Another insight is that simple one-person/one-vote approach is flawed when voting results affect different people differ…
RT @ChristopherA: ❾A last insight is the utility of “sortition” AKA a random sample election. This is the original Athenian democracy: http…
RT @ChristopherA: ➓The US founders knew of these problems & applied the best known 18th-century solutions. It is the 21st century now & we…
RT @ChristopherA: ∑ ❶-➓: 👎 majoritarianism, 🖕plurality win,🤞majority vote in small groups, 👍 consent, 👍 deliberation, ❓one-person/one-vote,…
Replying to @trbouma and @jonibrennan
This is what we are trying to create in #RebootingWebOfTrust community. https://github.com/weboftrustinfo
RT @gojomo: @ChristopherA ‘Quadratic Voting’ – procedure for selling extra votes at a rapidly-escalating price – may solve this: https://t.…
Interesting overview of quadratic voting. I need to add it to my spectrum of consent article. http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/
RT @calroscow: I think we often forget how much of today’s language Shakespeare gave us. Profound.
X.509 In Practice session at #realworldcrypto reports that after #Heartbleed that of 27K FDIC banks 90% did not replace cert keys until ‘16!
RT @jschauma: Good point repeated by @ljean at #realworldcrypto: industry lacking incentives to do the right thing wrt PKI/TLS etc. That…
Side-channel attacks of crypto, once considered impractical and rare, are increasingly easy and very relevant in a world of mobile phones. https://twitter.com/rspreitzer_/status/798105544011587585
RT @bal6765: Second 2017 Levchin Prize goes to Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin for the Signal protocol! #realworldcrypto https://t.co/Z…
RT @PatrickLonga: First Levchin prize, edition 2017, goes to Joan Daemen #realworldcrypto
RT @isislovecruft: “You could say NTP jumped the shark” #realworldcrypto https://twitter.com/hdevalence/status/816684788832681990
RT @durumcrustulum: “Computers are no longer for computer people. We can’t just teach everyone to be like us.” - @moxie
#realworldcrypto
Replying to @heathervescent
There is no correlation with that. Price increases are largely due to lack of trust in local currencies of Venezuela & India
RT @gojomo: @BernieRihn @ChristopherA …maybe quad curve is simplest construct allowing ‘any’ balance of results-vs-payoffs to emerge via it…
RT @Blockstream: New post from Blockstream’s Rusty Russell on fungibility, centralization, and scalability. https://twitter.com/rusty_twit/status/816786028253966336
Replying to @el33th4xor
I posted one of my more important & researched blog posts on privacy there, but the copy on my site less pretty but did better.
Weaponized Narrative is a good name for it. It is more than Propoganda, w/ A/B testing, neuroscience, sociology, ++. http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/01/weaponized-narrative-new-battlespace/134284/
RT @clayforsberg: “The Business Model of Democracy” — @elithechef https://medium.com/bif-speak/the-business-model-of-democracy-91518abb7ca6#—0-186.sgcvho8bt
RT @JonathanMohan: Check out @Blockstream ‘s @ChristopherA this Monday in NYC at BitcoinNYC https://www.meetup.com/BitcoinNYC/events/236706902/
Replying to @durumcrustulum
I started some work to turn computer generated randomness to a more memorable iambic pentameter form https://github.com/ChristopherA/iambic-mnemonic/blob/master/README.md
RT @tdierks: “Our social order depends on passwords.” 😢 Hugo Krawczyk @ #realworldcrypto
.@tdierks I started some work to turn computer generated randomness to a more memorable iambic pentameter form https://github.com/ChristopherA/iambic-mnemonic/blob/master/README.md
.@chrisinajar created some code based on these ideas to generate iambic passphrases https://github.com/chrisinajar/password_poem
Some other useful iambic password related files — various word lists https://github.com/ChristopherA/iambic-mnemonic/blob/master/word-lists/README.md & links to resources https://github.com/ChristopherA/iambic-mnemonic/blob/master/word-lists/useful-links.md
I will be speaking Monday at BitcoinNYC about self-sovereign identity, avoiding true names, privacy, fungibility, +… https://www.meetup.com/BitcoinNYC/events/236706902/
Replying to @DavidWarburton
#realworldcrypto Some thoughts on computer generated iambic passwords… https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/817122842278068224
RT @Blockstream: Blockstream welcomes distinguished peer to peer professional, Ben Teitlebaum, to exec team as VP of Engineering: https://t…
Replying to @DarioTepoTec
Rhymes are the hardest part. Not enough of them. But even the ancient Greeks knew a little meter makes prose more memorable
👍True! “If we want to develop a healthy democracy, we need a diverse and highly connected social fabric.”⇒@zephoria https://points.datasociety.net/why-america-is-self-segregating-d881a39273ab#.mm7c083l7
RT @darrenwalker: We must bridge America’s divides by affirming the dignity of all people. Read my full letter on our current moment: https…
Useful: “…removing anonymity was on the surface a good idea, but published research…have shown its ineffectiveness” https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/
RT @ttaubert: I’d love to see one or two talks addressing social/moral issues next year. #realworldcrypto shouldn’t focus on only technical…
RT @AudunGulbrands1: @adam3us @brian_armstrong I just published “Bitcoin Lightning Network FAQ” https://medium.com/@AudunGulbrands1/lightning-faq-67bd2b957d70#.reyovli6l
RT @brainpicker: There has never been a better time to reread Parker Palmer’s ennobling treatise on healing the heart of democracy https://…
RT @SteeleThoughts: A3: The sign I look at when I leave my office. Students hit the sign when they leave. It is why we’re here. I am the di…
RT @xkcdComic: Team Chat http://xkcd.com/1782/ http://m.xkcd.com/1782/
RT @perrymetzger: Two Factor Authentication: Something you’ve forgotten + something you’ve lost.
RT @NickSzabo4: Permissioned finance in action
https://twitter.com/TruthOfGujarat/status/817672430395265024
RT @coindesk: A Bitcoin Core developer recaps a fraught year in bitcoin development http://www.coindesk.com/2016-bitcoin-year-politics-apolitical-money/
Fabulous #longread from historian @Ada_Palmer on the nature of “progress”. Great Forces or Great Men? Both! http://www.exurbe.com/?p=4041
I first experienced NYC’s High Line Park back in May and loved the aesthetics of it. So I had to check it out after a winter snowstorm…
Replying to @NSmolenski
I’d like to think that existing universities can be transformed and participate in new forms of collaboration. But not so far.
Replying to @NSmolenski
There are many collaborative learning forms being experimented in the corporate world. My design workshops learned from one.
In advance of my BitcoinNYC Meetup tomorrow on self-sovereign identity, a WWII & modern day Dutch privacy story https://medium.com/@hansdezwart/during-world-war-ii-we-did-have-something-to-hide-40689565c550
RT @timpastoor: @ChristopherA First time I see a picture of that March 27th 1943 attack on the Muncipal Register in Amsterdam. My mom’s unc…
RT @Melt_Dem: who else is going to the #bitcoin @Meetup tomorrow? always excited to see @ChristopherA and the #blockchain identity crew htt…
RT @ChristopherA: I will be speaking Monday at BitcoinNYC about self-sovereign identity, avoiding true names, privacy, fungibility, +… http…
RT @MarcHochstein: “No other story … so clearly shows us the dark side of storing personal data” https://medium.com/@hansdezwart/during-world-war-ii-we-did-have-something-to-hide-40689565c550#.4x7reajzg h/t @Christophe…
RT @jschauma: Notes from #RealWorldCrypto 2017 https://www.netmeister.org/blog/rwc2017.html
RT @ThessyMehrain: @ChristopherA on registered identity as human right which can’t be revoked & needs to be self-sovereign. goal for @uport…
Replying to @robviglione and @NSmolenski
I have a page or 2 of things not taught in an MBA program that should be.
RT @thedeveloperj: @ChristopherA spoke about #RebootingWebOfTrust at a #bitcoinNYC meetup. Really informative and questions “identity” http…
RT @adam3us: pace of innovation is in overdrive, pace of adoption & industry collaboration also on an uptick. https://twitter.com/bitcoincoreorg/status/818427704831803393
RT @bergealex4: I just published “Why 2017 may be the year the industry figures out smart contracts… via Bitcoin” https://medium.com/p/why-2017-may-be-the-year-the-industry-figures-out-smart-contracts-via-bitcoin-cd72e25bacdc
RT @ThisIsSethsBlog: The candy diet http://tinyurl.com/jsr9f5x
RT @adam3us: “Smart contracts are exciting way to increase #Bitcoin’s value prop & 2017 is the year Bitcoin introduces them to the world” -…
Those who follow me know I care deeply about human rights, freedom of speach & privacy. Learn from reading the comments on this twitter too! https://twitter.com/aylinakilic/status/818911461623918593
RT @binarybits: “This is about whether our legal system will silence publications for publishing opinions public figures don’t like” https:…
RT @lightning: Announcing the alpha release of the Lightning Network Daemon. We’re looking for testers and contributors! https://t.co/UwQWf…
RT @adam3us: Rusty Russell’s, Ted Talk, comparing 20 years of linux development with Bitcoin & future. https://twitter.com/rusty_twit/status/819298711452794880
RT @rusty_twit: 10 minute background of my two-decade Open Source journey: Linux and bitcoin! https://youtu.be/HrCKFd5vTpM #TEDx
RT @buster: Here’s the cheat sheet for the 4 conundrums of the universe that our brains attempt to solve with what we call biases: https://…
Good overview of Blockstream (the company I work for) & how it supports but is not Bitcoin-Core. Also interview with CEO Adam Back @adam3us https://twitter.com/thecontroi/status/819550579043291137
RT @adam3us: discussion thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5njlxh/understanding_blockstream_the_most_important_and/ “2017 is shaping up to be a big year for Bitcoin!” -@NTmoney yes it is, bullish: sca…
RT @adam3us: .@NickSzabo4 @gavinandresen all of these 3 systems failed or degraded to bank-like behaviour #digicash #egold #paypal due to…
RT @exiledsurfer: “A message to my doomed colleagues in the American media” by @Alexey__Kovalev https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-media-from-russia-6e2e76eeae77#.deqr4kwy7
I’m impressed by the new Key Transparency project—it addresses one of the main problems in Web of Trust solutions: https://github.com/google/key-transparency
Replying to @el33th4xor
I’ve been fascinated by local currencies. Not sure about econ, but tribal 👍. I’ve heard Ithaca Hours have declined in use. True?
I’m very uncomfortable with biometrics in India’s Aadhaar identity system. 1% error is 11m people. Can’t revoke eye. http://www.wsj.com/articles/snags-multiply-in-indias-digital-id-rollout-1484237128
RT @timpastoor: Genocide’s Best Friend: an identity system filled with around a billion people’s fingerprints and iris scans.
RT @ContractCMO: @dez_blanchfield @ChristopherA Why do complex system failures so often result in the most marginalised people bearing grea…
RT @ContractCMO: @dez_blanchfield @ChristopherA What struck me from the article, was the burden of system failure was placed upon the inten…
RT @JenniferSertl: We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting ~
Kahlil Gibran
#a3r
RT @openculture: How to Destroy the Business Model of Breitbart and Fake News. Read this: http://nyti.ms/2iQZvqW And then follow @slpng_…
RT @profjasonpotts: Our new paper is published ‘The Social Economy of #Coworking Spaces’ in Review of Social Economy @jwaterslynch
https:/…
RT @benwerd: This report from the New York Times is required reading for everyone in digital media and journalism. http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2020-report/
RT @n1ckler: MimbleWimble blockchain (non-interactive coinjoin + pruning) may be able to support Lightning https://lists.launchpad.net/mimblewimble/msg00022.html
@Ethan_H…
RT @Technom4ge: There is 0% chance that the nodes I control will be running Bitcoin Unlimited. Fork all you want, but keep in mind it will…
RT @rmack: We must build an internet that does a better job of sustaining human rights. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/internet-freedom-censorship-regulation #netfreedom
On a dark day it is great to be able to see some dark movies in SF at the Castro for Noir City 15 festival. Theme: capers, heists & fiascos.
A trailer for last year’s Noir City 14 at the Castro: https://youtu.be/gBPrLwduHzY
RT @Blockstream: Blockstream refreshes open source Elements sidechain codebase; better performance, stability, UX, and consensus. https://t…
Replying to @rusty_twit
What is the minute mark for your talk
RT @ElectrumWallet: Electrum just made its first #Segwit transaction (P2PKH nested in P2SH) https://testnet.smartbit.com.au/tx/c21d7b8ae6078a269b1d0a6f203f74e129a65e0109544e0820ef1b7f4a42a976
RT @Blockstream: Strong Federations: Blockstream releases second sidechains paper via arXiv for public review and comment: See https://t.co…
I own a small ad-based community website @RPGnet — we probably loose 50% rev to keep ad quality high, but is very hard to do. @waltmossberg
I’m a big believer in privacy, but if you accept power over others, it must come with a commitment to transparency: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-release-donald-trumps-full-tax-returns-all-information-needed-verify-emoluments-clause-compliance
“In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.”
– Roger Mudd, Journalist
RT @trentmc0: Self-sovereign identity principles, by @ChristopherA
- Independent Existence
- User Control
- User Access
…
https://t.c…
RT @JuanLlanos: Forging self-sovereign identities in the age of the #blockchain by @ChristopherA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7pJq5knDTY cc @1WorldIdentity
I have a whole series of articles on the topic of optimal group sizes—in particular the 3 Community by the Numbers http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2008/09/group-threshold.html https://twitter.com/anilpod/status/822942109003083778
RT @Snyke: I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate my PhD anniversary: an #ethmedal awarded for outstanding doctoral thesis #ETHZ htt…
RT @adam3us: good @aantonop article explaining how #segwit fixes incentives to defrag UTXO https://medium.com/segwit-co/segregated-witness-and-aligning-economic-incentives-with-resource-costs-7d987b135c00#.8rtfzvnkz best explainer I’ve seen…
Replying to @kevinakwok
answer to your question: it is different depending on energy in group—for survival is only way to max: http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2009/03/power-laws.html
Are you a relentless multidisciplinarian? A “neo-generalist”? It requires both expertise & a beginners mind. https://mag.e-180.com/2016/07/the-restless-multidisciplinarian/
My favorite of many Japanese wood joinery designs from @TheJoinery_jp — inspiring! https://twitter.com/thejoinery_jp/status/727473157729198080
RT @lopp: Bitcoin: a distributed system in which participants argue about what the system actually is.
RT @iamdevloper: You know you’re a developer if you cycle back through your bash history for a full 30 seconds to save typing a command aga…
RT @manusporny: Verifiable Claims Task Force discusses revocation, privacy and correlation analysis, use cases: https://w3c.github.io/vctf/meetings/2017-01-24/ #w3…
Many conversations at Satoshi Roundtable—topics ranging from Bitcoin scaling, innovation & how to improve community to be more resilient. https://twitter.com/bit8coin/status/824272257132306432
RT @Blockstream: Congrats to @TheBlueMatt on your new position with Chaincode Labs. We wish you well and look forward to our continuing col…
Quoted by @coindesk about respectful discussions at Satashi Roundtable to heal the rifts in the Bitcoin ecosystem. http://www.coindesk.com/blocked-block-size-bitcoin-basics-satoshi-roundtable/
RT @khannib: How much BTC is stored in each multisig setup, and more https://medium.com/@alcio/some-stats-about-bitcoin-multisig-915f0787ef2f
Replying to @VinnyLingham
the scientific answer: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.bufferapp.com/best-time-to-tweet-research/amp
RT @lopp: Reddit incentivizes witty quips, funny fallacies, bullying, brigading, bad behavior, but not intellectual discourse. https://t.co…
RT @bergealex4: Hopefully people come to their senses after today. The importance of a scientific, peer-reviewed, development process is pa…
RT @GeneticJen: You’re looking at a video of FOUR directly-imaged exoplanets orbiting a star. You’re looking at another solar system in mot…
RT @thegrugq: I wrote some operational security guidelines for resistance twitter accounts. Stay safe ✊🏿 https://medium.com/@thegrugq/twitter-activist-security-7c806bae9cb0#.fo0ydilj5
Graphic recording for #Construct2017 by Sonia Sawhney @ssawhney87 — she also did one of our #RebootingWebOfTrust design workshops.
New idea for Bitcoin shared at Satoshi Roundtable that I liked a lot is Blind Merged Mining by @Truthcoin. Details: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/blind-merged-mining/
Good progress toward deployment of a Blockchain-based time stamp standard. Includes improvements from @petertoddbtc at #RebootingWebOfTrust https://twitter.com/waynevaughan/status/826150758789869568
I appreciate @Truthcoin adding economic theory to crypto & game theory in these looks at issues of bitcoin mining & centralization. https://twitter.com/truthcoin/status/826202045841432576
RT @mir_serena: Bitcoin core 2016 in a nutshell #construct2017
RT @digitaljoel: “beware trust laundering” Gregory maxwell at #construct2017
More graphic recording from day one of #construct2017 by @ssawhney87
Last of day one graphic recording of #construct2017 by @ssawhney87
RT @giacomozucco: Best talk I’ve ever heard about “blockchain”. Greg Maxwell at #construct2017. #Bitcoin
RT @schwentker: Each smart contract is crypto protocol operating in distributed context Greg Maxwell New field writing law for AI judges #c…
RT @Ferdinando1970: #construct2017 Gregory Maxwell quotes Janet Yellen on blockchain as core technology embodied in bitcoin https://t.co/gN…
RT @bitjson: Compiled a list of resources/articles about Bitcoin Script:
https://blog.bitjson.com/bitcoin-script-a-reading-list-656242edfa6c Thanks @keeshux, @aantonop, @soroushjp, @k…
Morning sessions for day 2 of #construct2017 #GraphicRecording by @ssawhney87
Closing of #construct2017 - results of interactive sessions—3 gotcha’s of Blockchain identity; mutual savings & insurance; interoperability?
RT @brianchoffman: You can have your disagreements but there is none when it comes to whether or not Greg Maxwell commands respect from the…
RT @coindesk: Blockchain white boarding is still going strong #construct2017
