Great article by game designer @raphkoster on the 20th anniversary of Ultima Online, it’s inspirations & influence: https://www.raphkoster.com/2017/09/28/ultima-onlines-influence/
RT @TuurDemeester: It’s 2017, and ppl still can’t identify themselves online to cast a vote. I give it 10 years. #CatalanReferendum #SelfSo…
I’m catching up on the last few advance readings before Tuesday’s #RebootingWebOfTrust—lot’s of exciting ideas! https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/tree/master/topics-and-advance-readings
I’m in Boston now before Tuesday’s #RebootingWebOfTrust — I have openings in my schedule (and on Friday) if any locals want to meet & chat.
140 characters is often unqualified & context-less speech. 280 allows qualifiers & context. I use Twitter for free speech, not poetry. https://twitter.com/naval/status/914194594379710464
Replying to @jerrymichalski
I don’t think I need 280 often—but I find that I often delete important adjectives, qualifying statements, or even censor myself if I can’t.
Replying to @FedericoTenga
Number of times I’ve posted almost exactly 140 probably >50%. I find myself censoring some statements if I must delete important qualifiers.
New video of blockchain-based Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). Soon adding testnet Bitcoin, Ethereum & Sovrin DIDs: https://youtu.be/tQzQKZKF93w
Replying to @leashless
I’m still not convinced that the blockchains of today are the right solution for supply chain. But other cryptographic transaction tech can.
RT @ChristopherA: @leashless I’m still not convinced that the blockchains of today are the right solution for supply chain. But other crypt…
Replying to @nathanwaters, @leashless, @JScottNelson and @peerismorg
We are working on some very interesting skill tokens in the W3C Credentials CG and at #RebootingWebOfTrust using Verifiable Claims.
Replying to @orthograham
We are hoping to iterate it and principles at this week’s #RebootingWebOfTrust in Boston. See also more current info https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/self-sovereign-identity-primer.md
RT @orthograham: @ChristopherA Extraordinary article. Implications of the herarchical model of identity stratification and ownership b/c of…
Replying to @rclemmons
Come to this week’s or future #RebootingWebOfTrust! Or join W3C Credentials CG! We are making progress!
Replying to @jamesAmunsch and @SatoshiLite
The Design Workshop is too dynamic of an event process for it to be streamed well. But as much of it we can is shared in our GitHub.
Our 5th #RebootingWebOfTrust Design Workshop begins today: functional & decentralized & self-sovereign identity, DIDs, verifiable claims &++
Results so far from Day One of #RebootingWebOfTrust: weak signals & decentralized identity whitepapers in progress: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/event-documents/plenaries/0-day1-overview.md
RT @kyletorpey: “Making MAST Meaningful; Bitcoin Atomic Swaps Become Private” — Brian Deery https://medium.com/@BrianDeery/making-mast-meaningful-bitcoin-atomic-swaps-become-private-ff003f7c2b7a#—0-400
RT @patio11: The Equifax ex-CEO throwing an unnamed technician under the bus for the Equifax breach is positively maddening. Some thoughts:
RT @patio11: Equifax has apparently not made that considered decision, which is the same thing as making a considered decision… they chos…
“I now see that Google — and its peers — should have evolved to a higher standard:
‘Do good. Be good.’” https://medium.com/whither-news/moral-authority-as-a-platform-52d80202fff4
Companies in Scotland in Britain in EU are re-negotiating the nature of sovereignty—individuals need voice at table: http://digitalscot.news/sovereign-identity-sovereign-scotland
New emotion at #RebootingWebOfTrust — “überprüfbarkeitserfahrungslückseligkeit” aka “the bliss experiencing something that is verifiable”
👆 hat tip to Christian Decker (@Snyke) for this one :-)
RT @ChristopherA: @martindale I also like Robespierre’s “Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corrupt…
Day 2 of #RebootingWebOfTrust progress on white papers & demos of apps supporting DIDs on many different blockchains https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/event-documents/plenaries/0-day2-overview.md
RT @heathervescent: With my people. Really enjoying @IdentityWoman explain the genius of DIDs to @yaoeo. Feel like something amazing might…
RT @moskovich: @ChristopherA I love how @patagonia here: “Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, …” http://www.patagonia.com/company-info.html
RT @DigitalscotNews: @ChristopherA How about an adoption blueprint for Government? Scotland wants to be an early adopter.. 😎
RT @ChristopherA: New emotion at #RebootingWebOfTrust — “überprüfbarkeitserfahrungslückseligkeit” aka “the bliss experiencing something tha…
RT @tonilanec: #BitcoinFamily #weboftrust @ChristopherA
RT @zeynep: MUST-READ @hahriehan oped for anyone interested in social change. The right knows how to organize. That’s their key. https://t.…
Last day of #RebootingWebOfTrust: Design Workshop exceeded expectations with 16 collaborative papers on identity: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/event-documents/plenaries/0-day3-overview.md
RT @katrynadow: Incredible 3 days @ #RebootingWebOfTrust working alongside the creators of our #SelfSovereign future
Speacial thanks @Chris…
RT @tonilanec: coming soon to an interwebs near you… #weboftrust #selfsovereign #identity #amirastory @ChristopherA https://t.co/DEtKth1R…
Drafted at #RebootingWebOfTrust: Amira—user story & engagement model for a hypothetical advocacy & human rights dev https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/draft-documents/Amira-SSWOT-Engagement-Model.md
Experiencing a participatory event (design workshop, hackathon, design sprint) really spoils you against “sage on stage” conferences. https://twitter.com/christophera/status/916190817940918274
At #RebootingWebOfTrust we are updating DID (decentralized identifiers) spec for ocap (object capabilities)! Draft: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/draft-documents/lds-obcap/lds-obcap.md
Replying to @ChrisLundkvist and @Iiterature
I usually describe it as edges. If you can’t stop people buying and selling, stop them from entering marketplace.
RT @Blockstream: Blockstream CEO @adam3us will talk about Privacy, Fungibility & Scale in #Bitcoin at the Hackers Congress in Prague! https…
RT @heathervescent: Awesome event, awesome people. https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/916190817940918274
RT @trbouma: Centralized systems are very efficient; long recognized as a single point of control and single point of failure
Replying to @naval
There are very few people calling themselves crypto-economists that are ready to be trusted. I look for humility first.
Replying to @naval
Don’t discount that that there are game token economists from pre-Bitcoin days (2nd Life, etc) who know more than any new crypto-economists.
RT @anguschampion: @timpastoor @petertoddbtc Everyone’s blinded by what seems like free money. So many resources being wasted on get rich q…
Replying to @kate_sills and @naval
It is very interdisciplinary—for instance here is just one paper by economist Ed Castronova pre-Bitcoin but relevant http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/castronova/
Replying to @kate_sills and @naval
An earlier paper by same author: Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294828
Replying to @kate_sills and @naval
An analysis of the game economy of Star Wars Online. App Tokens will ultimately act more like this than as currency https://www.raphkoster.com/games/essays/astromech-stats-economy-stats/
Replying to @kate_sills and @naval
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2004/05/fun-in-following-the-money/amp/
Replying to @kate_sills and @naval
A Wired article from 2004 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2004/05/fun-in-following-the-money/amp/
Replying to @kate_sills and @naval
In general many ICO app tokens are not that different, and long term may be fundamentally broken without good faucet & sink design.
Replying to @kate_sills and @naval
Yes, game tokens are centrally managed, but so are almost all ICO app tokens. Only one provider can consume them.
Replying to @kate_sills and @naval
Another key point that someone who has some experience designing & maintaining a virtual economy knows how hard & paradoxical it can be.
Replying to @kate_sills and @naval
I’m not saying that the old guard of virtual world token designers understand blockchain incentive designs. But there are many connections.
RT @Avivz78: The call for papers for the BITCOIN’18 workshop is online!
(held with FC’18 in Curaçao)
http://fc18.ifca.ai/bitcoin/cfp.html
Send your be…
RT @jonasschnelli: I’ll give a talk about „The Bitcoin Core project: what is Bitcoin Core and who is behind it„ at Tue Oct 17th in LA
htt…
RT @VladZamfir: @angela_walch @ecoinomia And even when we can objectively verify when a market participant behaves honestly, there are limi…
RT @VladZamfir: @angela_walch @ecoinomia The objective verification of whether or not a service has been provided isn’t possible for every…
RT @adam3us: @gavinandresen many underestimate risk & complexity, adversarial thinking & game theory’s counter-intuitive, hard to teach is…
RT @theQSLmind: Money is the most overestimated asset in life. Underestimated but more important assets are:
-Time
-Attention
-Knowing the…
RT @Steve_Lockstep: Terrific #quantumcomputing supplement in current @nature magazine. Experts set reasonable expectations. Long read! No e…
Replying to @kate_sills and @naval
Another dimension is that most current crypto-economists focus only on speculative & transactional wealth, and not systemic “deep” wealth.
RT @ChristopherA: @kate_sills @naval Another dimension is that most current crypto-economists focus only on speculative & transactional wea…
RT @ChristopherA: @kate_sills @naval Another key point that someone who has some experience designing & maintaining a virtual economy knows…
RT @ChristopherA: @kate_sills @naval Yes, game tokens are centrally managed, but so are almost all ICO app tokens. Only one provider can co…
RT @ChristopherA: @kate_sills @naval In general many ICO app tokens are not that different, and long term may be fundamentally broken witho…
Interesting set of goals for the @PanoramixH2020 project—both network mixing for privacy but also accountability. 🤞 https://panoramix-project.eu/home/our_goals/
Replying to @ladislavtweet and @naval
A number of links posted elsewhere in this thread if you start at top.
RT @ChristopherA: .@lightcoin The difference between disruptive and transformative is the difference between slicing a pie or growing a big…
Interesting MBA academic overview of “C-Form” organizations, from open source communities to flat participatory orgs https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marc_David_Seidel/publication/235306022_An_Initial_Description_of_the_C-Form/links/5782574508ae01f736e8e616/An-Initial-Description-of-the-C-Form.pdf
RT @windley: Related to my Equifax and Correlatable Identifiers post > “Must Read: Identity Cards and Terrorism.” https://hackernoon.com/the-anonymous-email-a-warning-on-the-dangers-of-mandatory-identity-cards-c3c36b9490fb
Richard Thaler, author of “Nudge” & many behavioral economics papers, has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/richard-thaler-nobel-economics/542400/
Replying to @smashthepast and @rclemmons
For #RebootingWebOfTrust you can subscribe to announcements at bottom of http://www.weboftrust.info/ — for W3C-CCG info https://w3c-ccg.github.io/
RT @TuurDemeester: Killer app for self sovereign identity? Info signed by credible source will command higher value in a world of impersona…
RT @xmlgrrl: “We should see ourselves as part-time custodians of our customers’ data” — @sainsburys getting #trust really right attitudinal…
RT @qz: Before winning the Nobel Prize, Richard Thaler cameoed in an Oscar-winning film—with Selena Gomez http://bit.ly/2kzwXXI
RT @anguschampion: The eternal question on almost all ICOs.
( or bitcoin, obviously) https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/917733440841289728
I could make an argument that ICOs reduce unit of account—the extreme is all paying xchg fees as no one will accept the underlying token. https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/917733440841289728
RT @PerianneDC: RE ICOs: @NYSE’s Tom Farley asks what happens to usage tokens if the business model pivots (as startups often do)? @GUFinPo…
In our communities, online & offline, big & small, we should be saying more “We don’t do that here”. Useful tool! http://www.thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html
I am arriving Berlin on Saturday—I have Sunday open, some of Monday & Friday & all the 21st & 22nd. I’d love to see more of my colleagues.
RT @dustyweb: With @ChristopherA and I co-authoring https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/draft-documents/smarm.md I now have a name collision bound to a conference partly about…
RT @hashbreaker: “Today billions of brains sit in skulls, impervious to search warrants. Warrant-proof skulls are a serious problem.” https…
I believe that a serious re-thinking of how we build & incentivize innovation needs to be done. Some interesting thoughts here: https://twitter.com/eladgil/status/918159593074671617
I would like to explore more the area of ECOs — Ecosystems Coin Offerings. Where companies can compete &/or collaborate on best solutions.
RT @NakamotoInst: JUST ADDED: “Smart Contracts Glossary” by @NickSzabo4 http://nakamotoinstitute.org/smart-contracts-glossary/
In 90s I hired the best talent at 80% prevailing wage in return for 20% extra time off. So this can work in US too: https://ifstudies.org/blog/his-standards-or-hers-how-men-and-women-define-success
RT @TaylorPearsonMe: 25/ In the same way individuals shaped themselves to fit the corporation, we are just beginning to shape ourselves to…
I’m looking forward to Signature Aggregation in Bitcoin—not only scaling but also fungibility improvements. Schnorr👍 https://www.coindesk.com/just-segwit-bitcoin-core-already-working-new-scaling-upgrade/
RT @lightning: Today we’re excited to announce our Lightning Desktop app, now available for testing! http://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2017/10/12/test-blitz.html #bitcoin #ligh…
RT @jbdezard: Great post. I agree. Incentivized bindings between equity and tokens need to be engineered properly. https://twitter.com/christophera/status/918299841335255040
RT @ChristopherA: I would like to explore more the area of ECOs — Ecosystems Coin Offerings. Where companies can compete &/or collaborate o…
Replying to @kevinakwok
We call that the meta game.
RT @adam3us: @roasbeef like how @roasbeef @starkness @rusty_twit @Snyke @tdryja & LN collaboration across cos & univ just deliver code, mos…
RT @adam3us: @roasbeef @starkness @rusty_twit @Snyke @tdryja rough consensus and running code is better than politics #cypherpunksWriteCode
Along with Schnorr Key Aggregation, here is another important future opportunity enabled by Bitcoin’s segwit: https://twitter.com/bitcointechtalk/status/918485250723815424
RT @futureidentity: My paper on “Privacy post-Snowden” is out, in Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES): http…
I’d rather see UNICEF as a trusted oracle & guarantor of smart bonds that become for those who demonstrate positive sustainability goals. https://twitter.com/delrayman/status/918861056092659712
RT @LaurentMT: Actually, it’s well known that a S.W. topology can even be the sign of a hierarchical structure.
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/nips14.pdf htt…
RT @LaurentMT: If your goal is to ensure network resilience AND censorship resistance, a S.W. topology might be a complication.
https://t…
RT @LaurentMT: So, as a conclusion: like many things, it’s all about trade-off. It’s certainly better to avoid definitive claims expressed…
RT @perrymetzger: Utter idiocy. Also, why do people still have maximum password lengths under, say, 128 or 256 chars? You’re storing the ha…
RT @kate_sills: Bottom line is, we need political philosophers who know enough law, economics and computer science to design new institutio…
RT @kate_sills: Institutions that take full advantage of our advancements in game theory, cryptography, data processing, communication spee…
True! 👍 https://twitter.com/kate_sills/status/919249786665967617
Replying to @Fennie_Wang and @ixo_foundation
A key challenge is not re-creating a new centrality. Ideally an entity like UNICEF stewards an ecosystem until vibrant, then steps away.
RT @aniltj: With current talk re: SSNs and Identity, a recap on the difference between an authenticator and identifier https://t.co/WCfkA4t…
This is why every time I see someone attempting “algorithmic agility” or the latest list of TLS ciphersuite I cringe https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/16/falling-through-the-kracks/amp/
RT @petertoddbtc: This is a really good program; strongly recommended to apply if you want to get into Bitcoin development! https://t.co/LX…
RT @mgd: Marketing Data and GDPR Compliance cartoon Marketoonist Tom Fishburne https://buff.ly/2ytR66P
This is why I supported SSL in IETF process in 90s rather than IEEE or worse ISO. Still wish we’d not used ASN.1, another paywall standard. https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/919899906109734912
If you manage software development I recommend you read both of these articles: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde https://medium.com/@deusexmachina667/you-fired-your-top-talent-i-hope-youre-happy-cf57c41183dd
Being an ally (not just of gender, race or sexual preference but all diversity) can be hard. Some tips @betterallies https://code.likeagirl.io/lets-meet-over-coffee-or-is-that-creepy-2c5cfab72469
RT @CassSunstein: Misconceptions about nudges. Relevant in the wake of the latest Nobel Prize in Economics.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3033101
RT @dustyweb: @ChristopherA @manusporny okay I couldn’t resist https://github.com/w3c-dvcg/ld-signatures/issues/15
RT @valkenburgh: An open blockchain token is the digital equivalent of a property right. Property is a right against all (think trespass).…
RT @anguschampion: @rezendi Can’t decentralize and make a fortune, yet people keep designing to try to do that. Hence why most decentralize…
Replying to @ahopebailie and @github
I’ve begun some: http://github.com/ChristopherA/self
@hrdng I’d love to get your review of the start of my Bitcoin CLI course, in particular sections 2-11 https://github.com/ChristopherA/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line
Replying to @ahopebailie and @github
I do have a /private repo, but you can’t see it. The files are PGP encrypted so I can easily sync them cross computers. Not used issues yet.
Thoughts on digital cash circa 1996, based on the bleeding edge crypto of the time. It wasn’t all invented in 2009. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm
Replying to @msgilligan and @MichaelRAlessio
At more recent #RebootingWebOfTrust we’ve been talking about giving software releases DIDs (decentralized identifiers) controlled by DIDs.
@NikMilanovic For the latest on self-sovereign identity you should share https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/draft-documents/self-sovereign-identity-primer.md
RT @NikMilanovic: The new #blockchain paradigm and the coming extinction for passports, wallets, and SSN’s. http://tcrn.ch/2xM5lQm #fintec…
This strategy of division may have started in Russia, but also is happening all over the world: Turkey, Poland, Great Britain, and now US. https://twitter.com/casssunstein/status/920982776748404736
I’m not convinced that Xapo Swiss bunker is anything but security theatre. Every expert will say security by obscurity is a bad practice. https://twitter.com/trbouma/status/920845865920749573
RT @SarahJamieLewis: “Most security debt is dark” - @Dymaxion #hacklu
As someone who has done lots of legacy tech security work, this.
Greg Maxwell & Chris Cook demo a portable @Blockstream Satellite Bitcoin data feed from roof of our Berlin hotel. No internet required!
RT @bitstein: Try to find something that makes you as happy as a portable @Blockstream Satellite Bitcoin data feed makes Greg Maxwell. http…
Replying to @VCfSEE_TimWayre, @NicolasDorier and @Blockstream
Yes, satellite uplink is expensive, but a Bitcoin transaction is only about 200 bytes, or about US$0.02. Worth it for censorship resistance.
RT @iang_fc: @ChristopherA @AAinslie Claude Shannon (paraphrasing K2) said it best: “The enemy knows the system.”
Every natsec agency: “bu…
Replying to @PilotDaveCrypto and @Blockstream
Any cheap 45cm satellite dish will work, such as a cheap used DirectTV antenna (though bigger is better). Details at https://github.com/blockstream/satellite
Replying to @VCfSEE_TimWayre, @PeterHebly, @NicolasDorier and @Blockstream
We are working on that. Increasing bandwidth using two satellites. Tx are about 200 bytes so can send SMS. And two-way is on roadmap.
Replying to @VCfSEE_TimWayre, @PeterHebly, @NicolasDorier and @Blockstream
Yes, today you can’t sink full node from scratch, but you can keep a full or pruned node up-to-date, which is more important. Redundancy!
I have been arguing this point for a long time: http://www.participatoryecosystem.com https://twitter.com/cryptananda/status/921685991483760640
Replying to @VCfSEE_TimWayre, @PeterHebly, @NicolasDorier and @Blockstream
Thanks! Kindergarten was so much fun—we learned to work together & its lessons set a learning foundation that enable us to change the world!
Replying to @amigus
So are you saying Bitcoin is Marxist? It certainly has many of the properties of a participatory ecosystem.
We censorship resistance is important! https://twitter.com/shelbygrossman/status/921794306595344384
Our 2nd virtual salon on #TokenEthics will be on Wed Oct 25 at 5pm PDT (Thu Oct 26th at 9am Tokyo 00:00 GMT) https://blockstream.zoom.us/meeting/register/fd09efe1bfc8d7797c24e00bf0acd2b8
Replying to @maraoz
Can I get one out of @manusporny’s time instead? 🤞
Replying to @PeterHebly, @VCfSEE_TimWayre, @NicolasDorier and @Blockstream
I’m asking for a definitive answer. I know that you can be down for at least 24 hours and catch up almost immediately—beyond that, unsure.
RT @ChristopherA: Our 2nd virtual salon on #TokenEthics will be on Wed Oct 25 at 5pm PDT (Thu Oct 26th at 9am Tokyo 00:00 GMT) https://t.co…
As I recall, the original plan was to use these Ecash tokens for reputation currency, to gift colleagues for good deeds, or buy into parties https://twitter.com/jp_koning/status/922645048675758080
RT @TuurDemeester: I no longer endorse Xapo for Bitcoin custody. I worry their technical bar is not raised high enough.
This is why in the DIDs we designed for key rotation, so that any keys used in credentials can be rotated rather than revoked. https://twitter.com/newsycombinator/status/922945904969224199
RT @darrello: Today’s thinking question: Why do companies think they need to own MY digital identity? #SelfSovereignIdentity #blockchain ht…
Tonight’s #TokenEthics Virtual Salon is starting in 5 minutes (5PM PDT, 9AM Tokyo) https://blockstream.zoom.us/meeting/register/fd09efe1bfc8d7797c24e00bf0acd2b8
Consensus of today’s #TokenEthics Salon: “Responsible projects gain control of funds as they can usefully spend them.” #ConventionalWisdom
RT @yanntn: @ChristopherA Helps teams stay focused + discipline. Contains $$ damage of project blowouts. Could even reduce tax liability…
RT @EricLStromberg: @ChristopherA was a fair amount of discussion about time locks and pull cords / triggers for partial refunds (various t…
RT @AlpenSheth: @EricLStromberg @ChristopherA …and raising the bar overall for better outcomes down the road, broader participating from…
RT @justinpervorse: So turns out being in 25+ Slack channels plus all the DM’s is actually worse than using email to communicate with people
Paper proposes improvements to how we measure GDP in order to improve #DeepWealth. We can’t manage what we don’t measure!
…co-authored by @DianeCoyle1859 /ht @profjasonpotts
RT @DianeCoyle1859: Thank you to everyone for all the kind messages today. Do read all three papers: http://global-perspectives.org.uk/indigo-prize/indigo-prize-winners-2017/
Replying to @DianeCoyle1859 and @profjasonpotts
#DeepWealth: Measuring more than the financial transactions of a system, but its resilience, sustainability, commons, and natural capital.
RT @ChristopherA: @DianeCoyle1859 @profjasonpotts #DeepWealth: Measuring more than the financial transactions of a system, but its resilien…
RT @anivar: @WorldBank Jury Observes: Aadhar has emerged as a barrier for people to access entitlements as basic as food. The problems are…
RT @sweis: Nice timeline of SSL, TLS, & PKI history:
https://www.feistyduck.com/ssl-tls-and-pki-history/
Replying to @1WorldIdentity
…and nothing on agenda related to self-sovereign Identity?
Is this showing anywhere in Bay Area? https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/923538633604456449
Replying to @PeterHebly, @VCfSEE_TimWayre, @NicolasDorier and @Blockstream
Currently Blockstream Satellite is transmitting 92kbps downlink, with only the last 24 hours of blocks & tx. Both are planned for increase.
Replying to @PeterHebly, @VCfSEE_TimWayre, @NicolasDorier and @Blockstream
Thus at this moment for a very remote node you have to first sync full node & deliver in <24 hours. If you need more time, talk to us!
Replying to @zacharylarson, @DianeCoyle1859 and @profjasonpotts
First paper in this set (though all are on GDP and are interesting): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/10/25/first-winners-indigo-prize-economics-given-135000-re-imagining/
RT @TaylorPearsonMe: 6/ Politics and economics by contrast strike me unknown unknowns. We don’t know what we don’t know about them.
RT @TaylorPearsonMe: 9/ We are far more ignorant of these systems, yet believe we understand them. As Kahneman said “We are blind to our bl…
RT @TaylorPearsonMe: 31/ We may be at a stage analogous to the Articles of Confederation where we are trying a new system of governance tha…
RT @TaylorPearsonMe: 40/ We should be cautious. The 20th century should have taught us that testing out new forms of government is a danger…
A manifesto by @Joi on ecosystem resilience vs singularity: “Developing a sensibility and a culture of flourishing…” https://pubpub.ito.com/pub/resisting-reduction
Replying to @nic__carter and @brandon4bitcoin
I am working on documenting a process for creating procedures for cold storage & smart custody. One scenario is mostly Ledger—in review now.
RT @nic__carter: I’m the most paranoid person I know and even I struggle to follow proper crypto opsec. We are NOT mainstream ready until w…
The #TokenEthics community has broad consensus that multi-stage models, parallel to how seed/VC rounds work, are needed when issuing tokens. https://twitter.com/spirosmargaris/status/924669282054819841
Replying to @lopp and @MeherRoy
App-coins are worse than alt-coins, as they can only be used for one specific centralized service. I’m open to ideas about ecosystem tokens.
Replying to @ak_kim0, @anguschampion and @lopp
Example? Four different companies, different code bases, implementing the Lighting Network—new capability, decentralized, no pre-mine or ICO
I worry that we are loosing this battle. Top security professionals agree that, at best “Biometrics are usernames, not passwords”!! https://twitter.com/netik/status/924333873252646914
Replying to @dgwbirch and @netik
I disagree. They “can be” but should not be passwords. Even on iPhone the real authenticator is possession of the phone with registered keys
Good overview of sortition by kate_sills, which was used by the Athenian Greeks in democracy, and largely forgotten today! https://twitter.com/kate_sills/status/924728954178564097
Replying to @Kyle_DH
I also don’t like them as identifiers either, because a) correlation risks & abuses & b) there are many people with same biometric
Video by @BTCBenny detailing many of the advanced features of the @GreenAddress #Bitcoin wallet: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yKtYGoMNgdE
Replying to @smdiehl, @sj_mackenzie, @jjmerelo and @brian_steffens
You may want to take a look at Simplicity, a sequent calculus approach to a secure provable language https://blockstream.com/2017/10/30/simplicity.html
I talked briefly about Simplicity in my #SmartSignatures whitepaper earlier this year. More info available now: https://blockstream.com/2017/10/30/simplicity.html
Here is my poster talk on #SmartSignature languages presented at Euro S&P earlier this year:
Here is the full #SmartSignatures paper: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/ID2020DesignWorkshop/blob/master/final-documents/smarter-signatures.pdf?raw=true
Another addition to possible #SmartSignature languages (came out after my paper) is @Chepurnoy’s Σ-State Authentication Language, from FC27:
At this month’s #RebootingWebOfTrust we continued some discussions on #SmartSignature languages, this is scheme-ish: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/draft-documents/smarm.md
Related to this topic is @smdiehl’s talk “Near Future of Programming Languages”:
http://dev.stephendiehl.com/nearfuture.pdf
RT @lopp: Simplicity: A New Language for Blockchains https://blockstream.com/simplicity.pdf H/T @alexbosworth
Dr. O’Connor’s t-shirt at #PLAS2017 w/ Simplicity’s complete denotational & operational semantics for provable code: https://blockstream.com/2017/10/30/simplicity.html
RT @Blockcerts: The plan is for Blockcerts verification to support all of these methods. https://twitter.com/chrisjagers/status/925359769430487040
😠 “It appears that network hardware…are blocking TLS 1.3 packets because they don’t recognize the protocol.” https://blogs.akamai.com/2017/10/i-can-haz-tls-13.html
RT @marcidale: IRS told @drummondreed that switching from social security numbers to secure digital id could save $20 B/yr in fraud alone #…
RT @okTurtles: #BlockCon 2017 - Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure (DPKI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUKkMag9x1w @goblockcon #DPKI