RT @pwuille: Slides for my presentation at the Stanford Blockchain Conference today, “Miniscript: practical composability for Bitcoin scrip…

x-icon Fri Feb 01 08:10:10 +0000 2019


Replying to @r0ckstardev and @pwuille

There is also demo of @pwuille’s miniscript at http://bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript/miniscript.html

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I’ve missed too many good talks during this week’s @CBRStanford’s Stanford Blockchain Conference because the hall conversations are so good. Fortunately @kanzure is there doing his usual amazing transcripts. What a blessing! http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/stanford-blockchain-conference/2019/

x-icon Fri Feb 01 08:20:43 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @r0ckstardev @pwuille There is also demo of @pwuille’s miniscript at http://bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript/miniscript.html

x-icon Fri Feb 01 08:20:54 +0000 2019


RT @ebfull: I’m happy to announce Sonic, a new zero-knowledge SNARK developed in collaboration with Mary Maller, Markulf Kohlweiss and Sara…

x-icon Fri Feb 01 17:02:42 +0000 2019


A real concern of #BlockchainCommons is that lack of support of devs could lead to Heartbleed-like problems in the future. “Perhaps forcefully taking 20% of all rewards is the only way to get any contribution out of the mining industry.” https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/grin-lead-developer-in-a-powerful-message-im-disappointed-by-the-way-the-industry-around-grin-is-shaping-up/

x-icon Fri Feb 01 17:31:06 +0000 2019


Replying to @cburniske and @TusharJain_

As the co-author of SSL/TLS, I worry about the pattern of Heartbleed happening to the blockchain ecosystem. In Heartbleed 12 years after we shipped TLS, 60% of servers code maintained by 1 person 1/4 time. I’m hoping to puzzle out long term solutions at https://www.BlockchainCommons.com

x-icon Fri Feb 01 17:35:17 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @cburniske @TusharJain_ As the co-author of SSL/TLS, I worry about the pattern of Heartbleed happening to the blockchain…

x-icon Fri Feb 01 17:35:50 +0000 2019


Replying to @nlw

As the co-author of SSL/TLS, I worry about the pattern of Heartbleed happening to the blockchain ecosystem. In Heartbleed 12 years after we shipped TLS, 60% of servers code maintained by 1 person 1/4 time. I’m hoping to puzzle out long term solutions at https://www.BlockchainCommmons.com

x-icon Fri Feb 01 17:38:57 +0000 2019


We are trying to explore this at http://www.BlockchainCommoms.com but it is a real challenge. Current patron models aren’t sustainable during price drops or even just very stable times (see Heartbleed). Maybe a UASF-like culture of not validating miners who don’t support infrastructure? https://twitter.com/nlw/status/1091319914214948864

x-icon Fri Feb 01 17:44:46 +0000 2019


Replying to @nicolasburtey, @cburniske and @TusharJain_

In 2014 60% the servers on the internet were using OpenSSL to secure trillions of $ of commerce & offering. But financial support of core devs had dropped to 1/4 time. Serious bug cropped in and was exploited for years before discovered. #ItCanHappenAgain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed

x-icon Fri Feb 01 17:52:15 +0000 2019


Replying to @jmcorgan

I’m butthurt that that as as ecosystem we’ve not discovered a sustainable solution to what is a large systemic risk. I did well by SSL/TLS but only because I was in early. Some pattern is true in blockchain. 10 years from now you can’t rely on support from HODLing devs.

x-icon Fri Feb 01 17:56:33 +0000 2019


RT @hrdwrknvrstps: @ChristopherA Shaming is no way to build a business - Grin will fail if maintenance is only made possibly through guilt.

x-icon Fri Feb 01 17:58:10 +0000 2019


RT @kanzure: Sounds like someone should have attended the #SmartCustody http://smartcustody.com workshop. We focus on best practices in cry…

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Replying to @nicolasburtey, @cburniske and @TusharJain_

I can’t speak to why IT often far behind (had a respectful argument with fellow author of TLS 1.0 @tdierks of Google about how long they had support deprecated TLS implementations of customers), but I do know there is insufficient security review funding. Better post Heartbleed.

x-icon Sat Feb 02 01:21:40 +0000 2019


RT @adam3us: @timoncc @7d5x9 @udiWertheimer @provoost @pwuille @peterktodd @KevinKelbie @theinstagibbs @LukeDashjr @zndtoshi @orionwl @Nick…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 01:23:03 +0000 2019


RT @backus: The Grin team is literally creating money and yet doesn’t have enough to pay one guy to work full time.

That’s bizarre. Som…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 01:23:55 +0000 2019


RT @giacomozucco: If you are interested in Bitcoin today, you should really consider to re-read and meditate, at least once a month, the ta…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 01:24:54 +0000 2019


We are scheduling two more #SmartCustody workshops soon, on best practices of digital asset key management, ideally on both coasts. Want to be on the announcements list? http://tinyletter.com/smartcustody https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1091443453798494208

x-icon Sat Feb 02 01:29:33 +0000 2019


Replying to @shadowdale, @nathanielpopper and @coindesk

https://twitter.com/christophera/status/1091508891752394752?s=21

x-icon Sat Feb 02 01:31:49 +0000 2019


Replying to @angela_walch

There are radically different development culture & practices in the bitcoin-core community vs the other communities you mention. I was sorely discouraged by Hyperledger Fabric practices that came from IBM enterprise. The problem is Agile culture doesn’t mix with security.

x-icon Sat Feb 02 05:43:07 +0000 2019


Replying to @angela_walch

That being said, looking at the longer term horizon I worry about bitcoin-core once it becomes boring, which if successful it must become.

x-icon Sat Feb 02 08:15:56 +0000 2019


Comprehensive detail from ⁦@TidBITS⁩ of privacy abuse by Facebook & Google using Apple’s enterprise developer capability, leading Apple to suspend their certain for a short time. Unfortunately both companies are “too big to fail” so certs reissued. https://tidbits.com/2019/02/01/certificate-wars-a-quick-rundown-of-apples-dustup-with-facebook-and-google/

x-icon Sat Feb 02 08:34:42 +0000 2019


Replying to @im_uname, @nicolasburtey, @cburniske and @TusharJain_

I will say that since Heartbleed that support for TLS and various open source implementations improved. Also the disaster gave impetus for finally resolving some technical debt that was addressed in TLS 1.3. But even though it is better now, I’m concerned it isn’t sustainable.

x-icon Sat Feb 02 16:57:00 +0000 2019


Replying to @MihailoBjelic and @jmcorgan

I’d like to see solutions that are not “forced”—it is in the interest of the community to grow, support & sustain the whole ecosystem. The challenge is that the free rider/tragedy of the commons problem are hard to overcome. We have clues in Ostrom’s work & altruistic punishment.

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:02:44 +0000 2019


Replying to @jemenger, @JoukoSalonen and @lrettig

Two relevant links: A Revised “Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Governance of the Commons” http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2015/11/a-revised-ostroms-design-principles-for-collective-governance-of-the-commons-.html & Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/03/dunbar_altruist.html

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:08:32 +0000 2019


Replying to @trbouma, @santicasas, @avocoidentity, @MartinKuppinger and @ComputerWeekly

I would add some additional criteria: vendor neutral, blockchain agnostic, with sufficient flexibility to not lock in solutions too soon to allow innovation, but sufficient strictness to prevent abuse & rent-seeking by bad actors. See also http://www.participatoryecosystem.com

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:12:52 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @trbouma @santicasas @avocoidentity @MartinKuppinger @ComputerWeekly I would add some additional criteria: vendor neutral…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:13:24 +0000 2019


RT @trbouma: To ensure we get #SSI right, I believe that any public sector procurement should involve a minimum of two independent provider…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:14:01 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @jemenger @JoukoSalonen @lrettig Two relevant links: A Revised “Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Governance of t…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:14:43 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @MihailoBjelic @jmcorgan I’d like to see solutions that are not “forced”—it is in the interest of the community to grow,…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:14:49 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @im_uname @nicolasburtey @cburniske @TusharJain_ I will say that since Heartbleed that support for TLS and various open s…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:14:53 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @angela_walch There are radically different development culture & practices in the bitcoin-core community vs the other co…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:15:02 +0000 2019


Replying to @Melt_Dem and @QuadrigaCoinEx

In our #SmartCustody efforts we not only offer best practices with checklists to help ensure your own compliance, but also teach risk modeling so you can identify where your risks are & adapt before crisis. The latter is what attendees found most valuable. http://www.smartcustody.com

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:26:45 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @Melt_Dem @QuadrigaCoinEx In our #SmartCustody efforts we not only offer best practices with checklists to help ensure yo…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 17:26:51 +0000 2019


Replying to @JoukoSalonen, @jemenger and @lrettig

There may ultimately be some solutions in global commons, but my experience is technologists think that small processes can scale up through cycles, iteration & fractal replication. But my experience is that in fact these don’t scale—other new factors emerge as size increases.

x-icon Sat Feb 02 18:09:51 +0000 2019


RT @bldgblog: Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence. https://t.co/4…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 18:27:56 +0000 2019


Wow! Really good analysis of sources of underlying conflict between different visions for future of cryptocurrency. https://medium.com/@arjunblj/a-conflict-of-crypto-visions-6f3e28066454

x-icon Sat Feb 02 19:03:25 +0000 2019


👍👏“The goal in both visions is to create the best possible outcome… Both visions acknowledge that the world has unlimited desires and believe there to be an optimal way to accommodate for these desires.”—@arjunblj In disagreements I prefer to begin with good faith assumptions.

x-icon Sat Feb 02 19:07:53 +0000 2019


Good Faith Assumptions, a pattern of best practices of group processes from the @GroupWorksDeck. http://groupworksdeck.org/patterns/Good_Faith_Assumptions

x-icon Sat Feb 02 19:33:51 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: Good Faith Assumptions, a pattern of best practices of group processes from the @GroupWorksDeck. http://groupworksdeck.org/patterns/Good_Faith_Assumptions…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 19:34:04 +0000 2019


Replying to @arjunblj and @yassineARK

I find that I’m a short-term pragmatist, but a long-term optimist. Which means I often straddle the constrained & unconstrained sides of these visions. For instance I lean right now to the bitcoin-core side of constraints for the near future, but I do want future unconstrained.

x-icon Sat Feb 02 19:44:35 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @arjunblj @yassineARK I find that I’m a short-term pragmatist, but a long-term optimist. Which means I often straddle the…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 19:51:44 +0000 2019


Insightful series of articles by ⁦⁦@kashhill⁩ (this one on Google) about our dependence on the big internet companies services. “By the end of the week, my devices have tried to communicate with Google’s servers over 100,000 times” https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-up-everything-1830565500

x-icon Sat Feb 02 20:09:10 +0000 2019


RT @naval: @hugohanoi What we have right now is suboptimal incentive allocation - all the rewards are going to founders, early investors an…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 21:16:04 +0000 2019


Replying to @Fiskantes, @naval and @hugohanoi

Actually what worries is that bitcoin-core may become too like like Linux, which has some early privileged leaders that are funded, a growing technical debt, and barriers of entry for new developers to sustainable livelihoods without employment by big corps with control agendas.

x-icon Sat Feb 02 23:05:06 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @Fiskantes @naval @hugohanoi Actually what worries is that bitcoin-core may become too like like Linux, which has some ea…

x-icon Sat Feb 02 23:05:16 +0000 2019


Replying to @billsmith4lyfe, @MarkFriedenbach, @naval and @hugohanoi

This is what https://www.BlockchainCommons.com is trying to coordinate with our efforts in #RebootingWebOfTrust, #SmartCustody, blockchain developer education, open source, and research. Companies can support with dollars or secondment of engineers to our projects.

x-icon Sun Feb 03 01:02:21 +0000 2019


RT @zooko: Here’s a way to charge subscription fees from customers without them having to disclose personal identifying information about t…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 01:44:14 +0000 2019


RT @nlw: 19/ When it comes to the broader issue of dev incentives, I think it’s incredibly important to deal with, both to ensure continued…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 01:52:31 +0000 2019


RT @angela_walch: I am still mystified that the development and the validation domains of public #blockchains reflect basically opposite pe…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 05:07:26 +0000 2019


Replying to @Steve_Lockstep, @Zukaza, @angela_walch and @inside_r3

I’ve been working over the last half year to create an organization (a no-exit cooperatively managed benefit corp, not a non-profit) to coordinate efforts to support blockchain infrastructure, internet security and cryptographic research. Some progress. https://www.BlockchainCommons.com

x-icon Sun Feb 03 05:10:31 +0000 2019


Replying to @Steve_Lockstep, @Zukaza, @angela_walch and @inside_r3

For instance #BlockchainCommons identified a lack of best practices & standards around digital asset custody as a systemic risk, and thus started the #SmartCustody project to address that, with our first workshop last week. https://www.SmartCustody.com

x-icon Sun Feb 03 05:15:20 +0000 2019


Replying to @Steve_Lockstep, @Zukaza, @angela_walch and @inside_r3

A related area is a need for better solutions for social key recovery, so we are initiating research into both improving cryptographic approaches & libraries as well as addressing some UX & social design issues. https://www.blockchaincommons.com/proposals/Project-Proposal-New-Social-Key-Recovery-Approach/

x-icon Sun Feb 03 05:19:43 +0000 2019


Replying to @Steve_Lockstep, @Zukaza, @angela_walch and @inside_r3

We’ve also done a security architecture review of @Truthcoin’s DriveChain merge-mining side chain proposal, and some work on making available a better open source library for developing iOS bitcoin wallets.

x-icon Sun Feb 03 05:23:42 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @Steve_Lockstep @Zukaza @angela_walch @inside_r3 I’ve been working over the last half year to create an organization (a n…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 05:23:51 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @Steve_Lockstep @Zukaza @angela_walch @inside_r3 For instance #BlockchainCommons identified a lack of best practices & st…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 05:23:54 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @Steve_Lockstep @Zukaza @angela_walch @inside_r3 A related area is a need for better solutions for social key recovery, s…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 05:24:00 +0000 2019


⁦”We know that Davos 2019 presented a reckoning for capitalism. One gathers that no one present — neither CEOs nor heads of state, academics, NGOs or the media — expects the world order, or the global economy, to survive in its current form.” https://link.medium.com/6lkH4mCZZT

x-icon Sun Feb 03 05:59:02 +0000 2019


“this year there was a session about global citizenship in the context of blockchain and digital governments. However, in this setting “global citizenship” was basically defined as “citizenship for sale”; a global citizen means someone with many passports, thus again the elite”

x-icon Sun Feb 03 06:06:46 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: “this year there was a session about global citizenship in the context of blockchain and digital governments. However, in…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 06:06:49 +0000 2019


“We are in the early phases of a global renegotiation of the social contract, which will take different paths in different cultures. It will include a holistic rebalancing of wealth, power and equity that delivers more for those left behind in the current economy.”—@aprilrinne

x-icon Sun Feb 03 06:08:40 +0000 2019


RT @jornbettin: @ChristopherA It is up to all of us to use this opportunity to collaborate on the development of human scale niches that fi…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 06:11:11 +0000 2019


RT @zooko: Beautiful idea from Y—S— (which, now that I think about it, I previously heard from Arthur Breitman and/or Guy Corem): let parti…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 07:01:31 +0000 2019


RT @mattblaze: We just pulled out of a major nuclear arms control agreement with Russia and it’s barely a page one story because everything…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 07:01:48 +0000 2019


RT @_prestwich: Want to get underpaid? Apply for a grant!

Want to get potentially underpaid for your work but maybe not paid at all? Try s…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 07:03:39 +0000 2019


Replying to @diogomonica

A challenge is that custodians are not answering questions about how they are managing the security aspects of their custody. When they do we get lot of security theater as well. #SmartCustody is working on list of questions customers should ask of qualified custodians.

x-icon Sun Feb 03 07:16:24 +0000 2019


RT @TaylorPearsonMe: Just spent two days talking to hedge fund managers and institutional investors.

My biggest takeaway:

Curiosity and e…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 07:18:58 +0000 2019


RT @ServidaAndrea: Red Cross joins Evernym to build accessible humanitarian blockchain identity services https://siliconangle.com/2019/01/30/red-cross-joins-evernym-build-accessible-humanitarian-blockchain-identity-services/ via @Silic…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 07:19:26 +0000 2019


RT @CaitlinLong_: 8 FOR 8 in #Wyoming! The stock certificate token bill just passed the House 57-1, so all 8 bills are thru originating cha…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 07:26:46 +0000 2019


RT @hackylawyER: “The clicks that pass for consent are uninformed, non-negotiated and offered in exchange for services that are often neces…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 18:35:29 +0000 2019


Replying to @stephendpalley

We are working on teaching best practices of digital asset custody, from self-custody & cold storage through institutional qualified custody. An issue is that there are smart contract approaches that can be more secure & increase reliability then replicating existing systems.

x-icon Sun Feb 03 19:00:55 +0000 2019


Replying to @stephendpalley

For more information sign up at our announcements list for workshops and best practices documents at https://www.SmartCustody.com

x-icon Sun Feb 03 19:02:19 +0000 2019


I have become a huge fan of Sam Fuller’s Crimson Kimono, which in 1959 dealt with issues of Nissei racial discrimination in LA with honesty & depth. The actors & director were in Big Red One during WWII and their connections showed through. https://twitter.com/meetingfaith/status/1091901053736370176

x-icon Sun Feb 03 19:08:12 +0000 2019


RT @mayazi: Confession - after witnessing the wreckage of a hyper-financialized market, I thought the promise of blockchain can resolve som…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 20:42:02 +0000 2019


Replying to @devrandom01, @robep00, @peterktodd, @bramcohen, @ChiaNetworkInc, @BaseZ3r0 and @GreenAddress

I’m also working on a “dead man switch” wallet as an example of what a simple #SmartCustody script can do. You give your executor a sealed recovery word list. You do regular single sig transactions but auth executor key after 1 year. That key worthless unless you don’t move funds

x-icon Sun Feb 03 21:52:57 +0000 2019


Replying to @devrandom01, @robep00, @peterktodd, @bramcohen, @ChiaNetworkInc, @BaseZ3r0 and @GreenAddress

There are two major goals in our vision at #BlockchainCommons for #SmartCustody. First is to improve current best practices, but the second is to demonstrate new forms of scripted custody & try to ensure regulators don’t ban them because the don’t work like stock & currencies.

x-icon Sun Feb 03 22:21:31 +0000 2019


RT @peterktodd: @ChristopherA @devrandom01 @robep00 @bramcohen @ChiaNetworkInc @BaseZ3r0 @GreenAddress Note to all that I was talking about…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 22:32:58 +0000 2019


RT @glenweyl: One more call: any Europe based economist or political scientist interested in designing and experimenting on an ambitious Li…

x-icon Sun Feb 03 23:39:36 +0000 2019


Replying to @glenweyl, @urlichsanais and @jayalaves

Get people to come to our #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona on March 1-3 to work on the first draft for your paper :-) https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Sun Feb 03 23:44:52 +0000 2019


Replying to @veridiumid

You should come (or even sponsor) the next #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona on March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Mon Feb 04 00:10:03 +0000 2019


This and other psychological incentive abuse to cause game (or gambling) addiction turns me off. I believe there are ethical ways to use cognitive psychology in games design, say to make them more fun, teach something, or offer value. But tricks to make them addicted are common. https://twitter.com/soona/status/1092143955741818880

x-icon Mon Feb 04 00:15:54 +0000 2019


Replying to @AeornFlippout

There are a lot of systemic problems in the computer game industry, including not rewarding the creators (Hollywood at least has residuals and fund retirement even if you worked for multiple companies). Most of my peers in that industry are now age discriminated against.

x-icon Mon Feb 04 00:23:26 +0000 2019


Replying to @kemitchell and @codinghorror

Odds Against Tomorrow, starting Harry Belafonte. Saw it 50th anniversary yesterday. Score by Modern Jazz Quartet. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053133/

x-icon Mon Feb 04 00:36:11 +0000 2019


Replying to @kemitchell and @codinghorror

Similar to Third Man is Murder By Contract, with soundtrack by guitarist Perry Bodkin https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051959/

x-icon Mon Feb 04 00:42:04 +0000 2019


RT @aalexis1234: @lrettig People are too big picture & grandiose, thinking of groundbreaking and completely new models “changing the world”…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 01:57:11 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @brynosaurus

Come to #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona on March 1-3 and share your criticisms, and let us show you we are farther along than your slides represent. None of the proposals are purely blockchain (some don’t even use it). https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Mon Feb 04 06:07:54 +0000 2019


RT @Drabiv: I’d add to the last slide, - “But perhaps with the right physical security… *and with the graph analysis done/vetted by the r…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 06:08:13 +0000 2019


Replying to @DanielMicay

Part of #SmartCustody practices is to minimize or at Least attempt to mitigate your risks. It looks like you did so but we can help you learn to do a more formal approach.

x-icon Mon Feb 04 06:10:33 +0000 2019


Replying to @DoveyWan

There are a few of us with more years. I did work on early Digicash 92/93, and I remember a dinner in ‘98 near Stanford with about 20 of us & @NickSzabo4 talking about feasibility & scalability of @adam3us’s new hashcash scheme. So my guess is >100 of us qualify as >10 years.

x-icon Mon Feb 04 06:18:48 +0000 2019


RT @anildash: Responses to this were astounding and eye-opening for me. Never thought about folks who would just leave home with no documen…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 06:30:31 +0000 2019


Replying to @DoveyWan, @NickSzabo4 and @adam3us

👍😁

x-icon Mon Feb 04 06:32:17 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus

We are investing heavily in building a tight #RebootingWebOfTrust in Europe, and this also plan to have our September event also in Europe (17-19th tentatively). Some are proposing Lausanne or Zurich.

x-icon Mon Feb 04 06:39:23 +0000 2019


Replying to @cburniske

I’d like to puzzle through dev rewards from transaction fees rather than mining rewards, as I think that may be more aligned with growing the ecosystem.

x-icon Mon Feb 04 07:36:47 +0000 2019


RT @Steve_Lockstep: Isn’t there plenty of precedent where tricking consumers with fine print is unconscionable, and therefore grounds for i…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 07:37:23 +0000 2019


RT @santicasas: @ChristopherA @brynosaurus Blockchains are not “the solution” to every single identity pain, but as a DPKI systems, they en…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 15:54:25 +0000 2019


RT @AnnCavoukian: No question, and with quantum computing coming in the near future, we need to find new ways of protecting personal data.…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:11:55 +0000 2019


I call this the “invisible architecture” problem. We didn’t design our current systems, instead they emerged from a series of events & culture in ways that are often hidden or not intuitive. We risk locking these choices and thus their effects if we are not careful. https://twitter.com/avsa/status/1092415207459250176

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:18:09 +0000 2019


Replying to @koeppelmann and @avsa

https://twitter.com/christophera/status/1092457292107198464?s=21

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:19:04 +0000 2019


RT @CaitlinLong_: HALFTIME RECAP re the #Wyoming #blockchain bills, incl summaries of the 8 bills + 2 others that would help blockchain bus…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:20:04 +0000 2019


👍👏Please do it @snyke! I believe that improving our ability to do proof-of-reserves is critical. There is far too much obfuscation & security theater with exchanges and other custodians, with “we can’t tell you due to op-sec”. Also without PoR regulators may step w/ solutions. https://twitter.com/Snyke/status/1092453292708429825

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:34:02 +0000 2019


Replying to @Snyke

https://twitter.com/christophera/status/1092461289106923521?s=21

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:34:35 +0000 2019


RT @Snyke: It could certainly be improved, but the idea is pretty much this: the exchange gives every user a proof that their account was c…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:34:54 +0000 2019


Replying to @impcapital

When my first company went bankrupt in ‘85, my entrepreneurial friend said “Welcome! Now you are a real entrepreneur!” Not because I lost money of our investors (and my own) but because I learned from the failure and would not make the same mistakes again.

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:39:23 +0000 2019


I like this idea of grant to publish or right to participate. (and rest of thread up & down is interesting - started with discussion of funding the failures of y-combinator as they learned something from that failure) https://twitter.com/tylerwillis/status/1092296014365548544

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:44:13 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @impcapital When my first company went bankrupt in ‘85, my entrepreneurial friend said “Welcome! Now you are a real entre…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:45:20 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus

A good start is @RuffTimo’s 7 Myths of Self-Sovereign Identity (2 parts) https://link.medium.com/6vR5K9Yo2T & the DID Primer https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-primer/ but the meat is the specs https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/ https://www.w3.org/TR/verifiable-claims-data-model/

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:53:56 +0000 2019


RT @Sheldrake: @ChristopherA One minute Aadhaar is a potentially agency enhancing personal choice. The next minute it’s effectively compuls…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 16:59:12 +0000 2019


RT @MarkFriedenbach: @mayazi @ChristopherA You are expecting crypto to solve the wrong problem. These tools won’t fix human nature. But we…

x-icon Mon Feb 04 17:23:58 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

The problem is that you are stating that our design is to put identity attributes on the blockchain. That is not part our our design. Blockchains are used to establish a cheap, easy to throw away unique identiFIER yet you can cryptographically prove control, rotate keys, etc.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 01:46:23 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

One of the DIF methods, Sovrin, even goes so far as to have one uncorrelatable identifier for every pair of relationships. The two parties can use these to bootstrap into off-chain claims that use CL Sig (Camenisch Lysyanskaya) blinded attributes https://misterwip.uk/cl-signatures

x-icon Tue Feb 05 01:51:14 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

So my challenge to responding to your slides is that there are some fundamental assumptions in them that are not correct. Our architectures are new & need critical review, and need to be explained better, but are worthy of you & your teams attention.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 01:53:46 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

Different DID methods serve different needs. I’m leading BTCR which in spirit is to replace the one place PGP succeeded, which is code signing by pseudoanonymous entities. In our use case we need correlation to allow for reputation to be built, but allow for key rotation.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 01:57:13 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

In BTCR all claims are off-chain, but can be timesamped in a hash tree. We don’t offer CL Sig selective disclosure attributes as we don’t need them. We desire to make it difficult to have a universal map of web-of-trust networks, but pseudoanonymous identiFIERS are cheap.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:03:15 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

Several different DID methods desire to support some form of “proof-of-unique personhood” to allow a variety of intentional association governance. You have some particular expertise in this are we would like to implement in POC potentially THIS year.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:06:09 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

👆@JanCamenisch @AnnaLysyanskaya

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:07:08 +0000 2019


Replying to @mbrochh, @cMacr0, @LukeDashjr, @nvk, @kanzure, @lopp and @fluffypony

In #SmartCustody I recommend titanium over CryptoSteel as steel has melted in various recent California fires, and letters might pop out. Cheapest is @CryptoColdTi at $20 plus a $20 battery operated engraver, to the higher end @CRYPTO_TAG with punch dies, hammer, and anvil base.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:15:05 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @mbrochh @cMacr0 @LukeDashjr @nvk @kanzure @lopp @fluffypony In #SmartCustody I recommend titanium over CryptoSteel as st…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:15:11 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

Yes, there are a number of people on the edge of the community that are making “blockchain identity” claims or are supporting bad practices that I would not endorse. But best way to fix is make standards that solve those problems & encourage market to adopt better practices.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:18:14 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

The best place to address these problems is to incubate them at the collaborative environment of a #RebootingWebOfTrust design workshop, then bring them forward to W3C & IETF with working code for review and consensus. #RWOT has proven we can do this. https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:21:28 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @brynosaurus @RuffTimo The problem is that you are stating that our design is to put identity attributes on the blockchai…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:21:40 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @brynosaurus @RuffTimo One of the DIF methods, Sovrin, even goes so far as to have one uncorrelatable identifier for ever…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:21:43 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @brynosaurus @RuffTimo So my challenge to responding to your slides is that there are some fundamental assumptions in the…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:21:45 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @brynosaurus @RuffTimo Different DID methods serve different needs. I’m leading BTCR which in spirit is to replace the on…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:21:48 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @brynosaurus @RuffTimo In BTCR all claims are off-chain, but can be timesamped in a hash tree. We don’t offer CL Sig sele…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:21:50 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @brynosaurus @RuffTimo Several different DID methods desire to support some form of “proof-of-unique personhood” to allow…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:21:54 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @brynosaurus @RuffTimo Yes, there are a number of people on the edge of the community that are making “blockchain identit…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:21:58 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @brynosaurus @RuffTimo The best place to address these problems is to incubate them at the collaborative environment of a…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 02:22:02 +0000 2019


RT @Blockstream: Regarding the recent discussion around exchange distrust, we think it’s time for the industry to settle on a standard for…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 03:42:29 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

I agree that there are issues of the security of data collected by issuers of Verifiable Credentials in order to them to issue that VC. But it is another layer, not the one we are focused on short-term. But it is on list & the kind of thing that could be a good #RWOT topic paper.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 04:04:33 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

There are some people that claim that proofs of unique personhood might be possible by some algorithm of non-correlatable human cross claims. I think it may be possible with small groups, but doesn’t scale. Thus why I want you to come to #RebootingWebOfTrust

x-icon Tue Feb 05 04:09:05 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

Now that the Verifiable Credential data model is close to to candidate recommendation it is time to bring up that (and last chance to make sure CR doesn’t have problems) but we were prohibited by W3C in charter of W3C-VCWG to talk larger picture. Thus another layer.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 04:14:35 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

If the VC team wasn’t heads down trying to finish data model, I’d guess they would be very receptive to these thoughts on data security of the issuers. They are doing F2F in Barcelona immediately after #RebootingWebOfTrust (cc: @DanielCBurnett @JoeAndrieu https://www.w3.org/TR/verifiable-claims-data-model/

x-icon Tue Feb 05 04:20:43 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus, @RuffTimo, @DanielCBurnett and @JoeAndrieu

We are the place for incubating alternative thoughts on identity!

x-icon Tue Feb 05 04:21:35 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

I do worry about that in both W3C & in IETF. But through some hard work to break through we believe we are making progress. Over 60 W3C companies polled want us to take on decentralized identifiers as work item, so even if Google objects it will likely pass. Legacy politics.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 04:24:55 +0000 2019


RT @JoeAndrieu: @csuwildcat @AmmbrPlatform @ChristopherA @brynosaurus @RuffTimo YES! The rest is still up for debate, design, and developme…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 05:16:01 +0000 2019


Replying to @mayazi, @CarrascosaCris_, @stephendpalley, @angela_walch and @prestonjbyrne

Though the sentiment I agree with, a number of us in the decentralized identity have become concerned about tying personal data into laws where “assets” are “owned”. @hackylawyER & @dazzagreenwood articulated this well in https://medium.com/@hackylawyER/do-we-really-want-to-sell-ourselves-the-risks-of-a-property-law-paradigm-for-data-ownership-b217e42edffa

x-icon Tue Feb 05 05:27:35 +0000 2019


Replying to @mayazi, @CarrascosaCris_, @stephendpalley, @angela_walch, @prestonjbyrne, @hackylawyER and @dazzagreenwood

There is considerable discussion on this and I suspect given this interest that it will be a collaborative topic that will emerge from next #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona on March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Tue Feb 05 05:29:13 +0000 2019


Replying to @tarah

How does our #RebootingWebOfTrust code of conduct compare? We link it on home page & all invite emails. https://weboftrustinfo.github.io/community-resilience/code_of_conduct_long.html

x-icon Tue Feb 05 05:34:48 +0000 2019


RT @NickSzabo4: @hugohanoi @peterktodd @adam3us Bit gold had a supply that would have more flexibly responded to demand for the currency (m…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 05:37:33 +0000 2019


RT @NickSzabo4: @3DNuts @hugohanoi @peterktodd @adam3us Hayek’s promotion of private currency was inspired myself and others. White and Sel…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 05:37:37 +0000 2019


Replying to @nic__carter and @MarkAT54292258

Though I believe the loss of keys in this case to be a ruse, from my research for the #SmartCustody series of workshops a lot of what is being said by digital asset exchanges & custodians is security theater. Proof-of-Reserve is a good tool, but customers need demand more.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 05:55:15 +0000 2019


Ultimately I think this is the direction that we need to head, with the caveat is that the culture & incentives need to be attractive enough that people voluntarily tax themselves rather than move to a fork. Another is majority voting governance is problematic, we can do better. https://twitter.com/mayazi/status/1092333139786117121

x-icon Tue Feb 05 06:08:19 +0000 2019


Replying to @mayazi and @colingplatt

https://twitter.com/christophera/status/1092666209655414789?s=21

x-icon Tue Feb 05 06:08:56 +0000 2019


Replying to @Steven_McKie

Our #BlockchainCommons org only takes on projects that benefit multiple chains or the larger ecosystem. We didn’t make our funding targets last year due to downturn but projects like #SmartCustody deserve support in coming year. https://www.BlockchainCommons

x-icon Tue Feb 05 06:14:47 +0000 2019


Replying to @Gliitchy

I have the domain http://shallweplay.com” that I intended back when I was an iPhone developer to offer this capability. I also own @RPGnet the largest independent pen&paper community. I don’t have to pursue this right but if someone is serious about it let me know.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 06:40:43 +0000 2019


RT @George_harrap: @joonian The MTGOX affect: Nobody cares about proof of reserves or security management until their exchange gets hacked…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 06:41:29 +0000 2019


MBAs still taught old model: “The three horizons are no longer bounded by time.…For those who grew up with the notion that creative disruptive Horizon 3 products takes years are in for some unpleasant surprises.” @sgblank in @HarvardBiz via @rossdawson https://hbr.org/2019/02/mckinseys-three-horizons-model-defined-innovation-for-years-heres-why-it-no-longer-applies

x-icon Tue Feb 05 06:49:16 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @Steven_McKie Our #BlockchainCommons org only takes on projects that benefit multiple chains or the larger ecosystem. We…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 06:50:20 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @mayazi @CarrascosaCris_ @stephendpalley @angela_walch @prestonjbyrne Though the sentiment I agree with, a number of us i…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 06:50:33 +0000 2019


@CleanApp we’d love you to come to #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona on March 1-3 as your thoughts would be useful in the emerging #RightsNotProperty discussions as well as governance discussions. https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:04:38 +0000 2019


“Why did the salmon cross the road?” 🤔 https://twitter.com/m_yosry2012/status/1068447633247744000

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:06:18 +0000 2019


Schnorr threshold signatures with accountability & without are incredibly important tools for the future. This work started before I joined @Blockstream, I vicariously cheered it on while I was at Blockstream, and I am a big supporter now that it approaching the launch gate. 👏 https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1092665108960968704

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:16:20 +0000 2019


Replying to @brynosaurus and @RuffTimo

👆 @Drabiv

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:20:10 +0000 2019


RT @nirbheek: @sehurlburt Interesting take, and I suppose this is great advice for many people, but many FOSS maintainers do not work on pr…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:22:30 +0000 2019


RT @nirbheek: @sehurlburt For instance, the maintainer of the GNOME file manager cannot realistically go and do B2B sales. Not everything c…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:22:32 +0000 2019


RT @nirbheek: @sehurlburt Another mechanism, and what we at @centricular have been trying to do, is to use B2B consulting to fund open-sour…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:22:34 +0000 2019


RT @nirbheek: @sehurlburt @centricular That makes sense, but I still don’t see how every FOSS project can work within this mechanism withou…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:22:41 +0000 2019


RT @nirbheek: @sehurlburt For example, I spend a large chunk of my work time fixing bugs and adding features that are irrelevant to any com…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:22:46 +0000 2019


👍“When we shift attention to palpable, local damage, such passing of responsibility to distant others is no longer possible.” Trying to share the facts of CO2 & climate change will not affect change (may make it worse!) Instead we must win hearts. All social change like this! https://twitter.com/yesmagazine/status/1092664154446614528

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:29:24 +0000 2019


RT @peterktodd: Re: QuadrigaCX I think the psychology of the situation is people want it to be a scam, because at least there’s a chance…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:32:35 +0000 2019


RT @tayvano_: Oh, and just in case you weren’t shaking your head enough,
don’t forget that Quadriga ran an exchange with KYC. They have a…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 07:34:23 +0000 2019


RT @benediktbuenz: @TTrevethan @Snyke @BitcoinErrorLog @ChristopherA Yes the proof circuit becomes more complicated but with a fancier circ…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 15:46:40 +0000 2019


Replying to @mayazi, @hackylawyER, @stephendpalley, @prestonjbyrne, @CarrascosaCris_, @angela_walch and @dazzagreenwood

I think you should be able to opt out, but not because you have ownership of the data but that you have a human right to respect the integrity of your body & person.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 15:49:43 +0000 2019


RT @mayazi: @hackylawyER @stephendpalley @prestonjbyrne @ChristopherA @CarrascosaCris_ @angela_walch @dazzagreenwood So here’s a real world…

x-icon Tue Feb 05 15:49:51 +0000 2019


Replying to @hackylawyER, @stephendpalley, @prestonjbyrne, @mayazi, @CarrascosaCris_, @angela_walch and @dazzagreenwood

Agreed we need more women and other forms of diversity, not just gender, race but also class. @JoeAndrieu & I have been feeling around in this territory for some time (since the first UN ID2020 #rwot) but only recently with your work have we been fully able to articulate it.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 15:59:50 +0000 2019


👍 Article by @Melt_Dem diving into approaches for on-chain governance—looking at how these questions are being answered: Who has the right to govern? Who has the will to govern? How is power measured? What are the stakes? How do we create a “rising tide”? https://medium.com/coinshares/politics-power-protocols-101562734f71

x-icon Tue Feb 05 21:25:58 +0000 2019


Replying to @jiceman and @Steven_McKie

https://www.BlockchainCommons.com and one of our major projects https://www.SmartCustody.com

x-icon Tue Feb 05 21:27:39 +0000 2019


Replying to @Melt_Dem

I think your “rising tide” question is actually one of the bigger ones that isn’t being sufficiently discussed. It is related to the evolution of cooperation & topics like Ostrom’s Commons. We want to puzzle not only how individuals benefit from decisions but improve ecosystem.

x-icon Tue Feb 05 22:40:46 +0000 2019


RT @Melt_Dem: @ChristopherA many issues with “the cartel of good intentions” and a lack of actual analysis of how these systems are being u…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 01:51:00 +0000 2019


RT @AsILayHodling: Twitter’s co-founder just accepted a #bitcoin payment that has been sent/received by 140 other users across 6 continents…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 02:14:00 +0000 2019


RT @opentimestamps: OpenTimestamps mentioned in @nature in an article on how the Manubot software uses it to timestamp scientific publicati…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 02:14:21 +0000 2019


RT @SarahJamieLewis: Kudos to the zcash team for such a detailed writeup. Some interesting longer term questions come to mind, like how ann…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 05:24:12 +0000 2019


I have believed that this is a critical problem in the computer game industry for awhile, yet somehow it keeps getting bigger & bigger on the backs of devs & artists. @raphkoster made billions for the games he designed, but had to start his own company to be able cash out. https://twitter.com/David_Mullich/status/1092876262937370625

x-icon Wed Feb 06 06:21:55 +0000 2019


Since games are digital assets, which blockchains support very well, there is an opportunity for a fair & transparent AAA game company to transform the industry.

x-icon Wed Feb 06 06:24:50 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: Since games are digital assets, which blockchains support very well, there is an opportunity for a fair & transparent AAA…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 06:24:54 +0000 2019


I know that some game companies are experimenting with blockchains, but mostly for ICO & seigniorage revenue, not for transformation of how games are financed, designed & built, and played & supported. I believe it is possible.

x-icon Wed Feb 06 06:28:48 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: I know that some game companies are experimenting with blockchains, but mostly for ICO & seigniorage revenue, not for tra…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 06:28:52 +0000 2019


(Restate: games that @raphkoster designed made billions for the companies he worked for, but he just worked for salary. Few game companies options & other equity compensation have ever paid out to employees as compared to other software companies)

x-icon Wed Feb 06 06:32:13 +0000 2019


Replying to @1stCrassCitizen

Absolutely. You design a dress and program that perfect bias-cut swish of the skirt, you can be paid a royalty for its success. It might not be a lot, but like actors and other Hollywood creatives, a little residuals help. And with some blockchain transparency no book cooking.

x-icon Wed Feb 06 06:37:24 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @1stCrassCitizen Absolutely. You design a dress and program that perfect bias-cut swish of the skirt, you can be paid a r…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 06:37:40 +0000 2019


Replying to @Excellion

Even with big budget movies the creatives “above the line” get residuals, and the top level talent get royalties. There is no equivalent for game developers, and many are age-discriminated out because the won’t work the 60 hour weeks those who are too young to know better do.

x-icon Wed Feb 06 06:56:35 +0000 2019


RT @buchmanster: No offence to the brilliant people working on this stuff, but this is why anything more advanced than vanilla elliptic cur…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 07:02:58 +0000 2019


Replying to @buchmanster

A problem that #BlockchainCommons wants to address. It about investing for long term, educating new master security engineers. It is why I’m co-chair of the 1st implementors workshop at #FC’
19—the academics need to learn about how hard it is to implement. https://www.BlockchainCommons.com

x-icon Wed Feb 06 07:07:37 +0000 2019


Replying to @Excellion

I too was a game industry exec once, friends with a number a major designers, yet most of colleagues from then have left. Yet later when I got to know some Hollywood creatives it felt Hollywood was less broken for creatives than the game industry. Flawed also, but not as bad.

x-icon Wed Feb 06 07:16:03 +0000 2019


In our work on #SmartCustody, multisigs on Ethereum are a PITA because they are not fundamental to the coin and thus instead must be smart contracts. They still are not as secure as on UTXO chains like bitcoin, but it is good to see some progress on the problem. [https://twitter.com/__xyzxyzxyz/status/1092953292701876224](https://twitter.com/__xyzxyzxyz/status/1092953292701876224)

x-icon Wed Feb 06 07:23:01 +0000 2019


Some details on the problems inherent to some of the existing Ethereum multisig contracts and the solution offered by the 1.0 version of this simpler contract are described in this blog post from 2017 by @ChrisLundkvist https://link.medium.com/h884LyL44T

x-icon Wed Feb 06 07:31:28 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: Some details on the problems inherent to some of the existing Ethereum multisig contracts and the solution offered by the…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 07:31:34 +0000 2019


RT @caelumlabs: Next #Devcentralised meetup: we will host talks about new identity models with @ChristopherA & @drummondreed + presentation…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 14:35:28 +0000 2019


Customers should drop these bad actor companies like hot potatoes for breach of contract & encourage even their competitors to do so as well. You have to hit them at their bottom line when they attack (physically or legally) security researchers. https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1092933688323534848

x-icon Wed Feb 06 15:11:29 +0000 2019


We also need much better practices of cryptographic review, including funding for those reviews. Asking for semi-volunteer academic or open-source peer review is insufficient. We did one cryptographic architectural review at #BlockchainCommons last year & to do well is difficult. https://twitter.com/mayazi/status/1092931131715006464

x-icon Wed Feb 06 15:18:24 +0000 2019


👍💯”But there’s one trend that’s so blatant, so patently offensive, so callously disrespectful of our time and attention, that we can no longer sit by and suffer. I am of course speaking of the dreaded auto-play videos.”— @adamengst #DeathToAutoPlay https://tidbits.com/2019/02/06/deathtoautoplay-no-more-audio-and-video-that-plays-automatically/

x-icon Wed Feb 06 17:11:54 +0000 2019


Replying to @adamengst

“I’d go further and suggest that auto-play videos are an assault on our autonomy as human beings. They’re an insidious effort to eliminate our free will and compel us to behave in a particular way: “Don’t read that. Watch this instead.””—@adamengst

x-icon Wed Feb 06 17:13:44 +0000 2019


Replying to @matt_wutrudoing

I’m seeking to have a more formal review of it but impressed by https://github.com/dsprenkels/sss (and talk at https://dsprenkels.com/sss-34c3.html))

x-icon Wed Feb 06 18:37:21 +0000 2019


Replying to @matt_wutrudoing

Social Key Recovery/improvements to SSS appears to be emerging topic for next #RebootingWebOfTrust in Barcelona. Two papers so far have been submitted, and a third is on its way:
https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/security_shamirs.md
https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/social-key-recovery.md

x-icon Wed Feb 06 18:38:57 +0000 2019


I was particularly unimpressed with Hyperledger Foundation, which cost the founding board members $0.5M to join & thousands a year to be a member, but even today is expecting companies to volunteer time to work on better cryptographic libraries, much less pay for formal review.

x-icon Wed Feb 06 19:00:05 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: I was particularly unimpressed with Hyperledger Foundation, which cost the founding board members $0.5M to join & thousan…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 19:00:15 +0000 2019


Replying to @hackylawyER, @dazzagreenwood, @prestonjbyrne, @mayazi, @CarrascosaCris_, @stephendpalley and @angela_walch

Cryptokitties are a non-fungible but freely transferable digital asset, with a unique identity, data associated with that identity, code, and history of provenance. In my presence in the digital world I do not want to be a Cryptokittie. #RightsNotProperty

x-icon Wed Feb 06 19:05:45 +0000 2019


RT @hackylawyER: I do not want to be a #CryptoKitty either but if we’re not careful, we could end up there! https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1093224241770590208

x-icon Wed Feb 06 19:25:58 +0000 2019


Replying to @mayazi, @hackylawyER, @dazzagreenwood, @prestonjbyrne, @CarrascosaCris_, @stephendpalley and @angela_walch

That sure sounds like my relationship with Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other federated digital identities I have. In a couple of months that is exactly what will happen to my Google+ communities.

x-icon Wed Feb 06 19:43:36 +0000 2019


Replying to @EMostaque and @hackylawyER

One of the big questions I have for lawyers is can we use fiduciary law to hire an agent, who can offer to do $ deals, but also has fiduciary requirements to protect us. Right now each of us negotiating individually is a serious problem that big players can take advantage of.

x-icon Wed Feb 06 20:13:09 +0000 2019


In my informal #SmartCustody polling of those who are using Ethereum/ERC20 assets under multisig most feel the Gnosis mutisig smart contract is best, but @Vitalik says to use the one used by the @ethereum foundation. @ChrisLundkvist any particular major users? Gnosis advantages?

x-icon Wed Feb 06 22:13:48 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: In my informal #SmartCustody polling of those who are using Ethereum/ERC20 assets under multisig most feel the Gnosis mut…

x-icon Wed Feb 06 22:13:55 +0000 2019


Replying to @BTCResearch123, @TheBlueMatt, @peterktodd, @_prestwich and @LukeDashjr

Doing deterministic builds is not easy, worse under many tool chains, (Node/JavaScript 👎) but eventually our entire operating systems should be done that way. However, for the effort, cleaning up code dependencies on other libraries and cleaning up toolchain is more valuable.

x-icon Wed Feb 06 22:54:26 +0000 2019


RT @_jillruth: We want to believe technology can solve our trust issues. Cryptocurrency promises us that we “just” have to trust the math,…

x-icon Thu Feb 07 01:46:59 +0000 2019


RT @MeeplesTogether: Lots of co-op designers here, including the designers of Pandemic, Lord of the Rings, Battlestar Galactica, Hanabi, an…

x-icon Thu Feb 07 06:50:48 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @BTCResearch123 @TheBlueMatt @peterktodd @_prestwich @LukeDashjr Doing deterministic builds is not easy, worse under many…

x-icon Thu Feb 07 07:01:16 +0000 2019


RT @MeeplesTogether: Our newest case study covers Reiner Knizia’s second major co-op, Star Trek: Expeditions, not nearly as well known as h…

x-icon Thu Feb 07 07:30:41 +0000 2019


Replying to @jiceman

As far as I know they are not part of the DID community. Sounds to me like the didn’t do their research & are making claims about decentralized identity & kyc/aml without understanding that there is a vibrant community already involved building standards. Caveat Emptor. @DIDTech

x-icon Thu Feb 07 21:27:22 +0000 2019


“(The) right to repair movement have promoted standards that would force manufacturers to make it legal and practical for consumers, or independent repair shops, to get under the hood of their devices.“ http://fortune.com/2019/01/09/right-to-repair-manufacturers/

x-icon Fri Feb 08 00:09:18 +0000 2019


👍“AMI’s long-earned reputation for weaponizing journalistic privileges, hiding behind important protections, & ignoring the tenets and purpose of true journalism. Of course I don’t want personal photos published…I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, & see what crawls out.” https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1093643321732464646

x-icon Fri Feb 08 00:28:42 +0000 2019


“Our existing legal frameworks are inadequate for the societal sea-change that is transpiring. As we haphazardly fuse the physical, digital, and biological worlds through emerging technologies, everything is converging as data—everything apart from our laws..”—@hackylawyER https://twitter.com/kimdhamilton/status/1093682402629607425

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RT @notgrubles: I just published “Completely Offline #Bitcoin Transactions”. 🛰️⚡️📡📻🌐 #BlockstreamSatellite #GoTenna #MeshNetwork https://t.…

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RT @JoeAndrieu: @pperez333 @Asher_Wolf @doctorow @ScottLDavid @ChristopherA THIS: “market logic turns everything, including one’s own life,…

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Replying to @LeahHoustonMD and @hackylawyER

There are two physicians that are regulars at #RebootingWebOfTrust, and we often have more. Our next collaborative design workshop (our 8th!) is in Barcelona March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com Join us and bring you ideas to the community!

x-icon Fri Feb 08 18:24:32 +0000 2019


RT @physiciansguide: A great conversation with @LeahHoustonMD about how physicians can protect their identities, control their data and cre…

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Replying to @LeahHoustonMD, @physiciansguide, @dwramzimdmph, @AtlasMD, @NeuCare, @Ptdirectcare, @sparkMDdirect, @RHealthMD, @philsq, @McknightmdEllen, @jforbush, @Rebekah_Bernard, @ChadSavage, @drleegross, @WlcrouchBill, @PlumHealthDPC, @f1dpc, @jaykempton1 and @GreenHillsDFC

👆@agropper

x-icon Fri Feb 08 22:03:43 +0000 2019


RT @hackylawyER: What’s most notable to me about this action is that the #antitrust regulator may be doing more to promote #dataprotection…

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RT @dez_blanchfield: So apparently @Cisco wants #privacy to be a fundamental #human right..

I’ll vote for that.. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cisco-wants-privacy-to-be-a-fundamental-human-right-519030?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iTnews+Technology+feed

x-icon Sat Feb 09 01:47:54 +0000 2019


Replying to @Appelcline

Any of the zines focusing on storygames or gmless RPGs? I’d back that.

x-icon Sat Feb 09 01:50:57 +0000 2019


“Humanitarian organizations and UN agencies obviously don’t want to enable war crimes and the perverse use of their data for clandestine military purposes.” Unfortunately NGOs are notoriously bad at IT & self-sovereign identity is cheap yet. https://www.opencanada.org/features/search-better-data-protection-those-caught-conflict/

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“we can no longer do this with a spreadsheet and beneficiary ID cards. We need something more sustainable, something people can establish, create, hold, and access their identities.”—@RedCross https://www.ledgerinsights.com/evernym-red-cross-digital-identity-blockchain/

x-icon Sat Feb 09 18:02:00 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: “we can no longer do this with a spreadsheet and beneficiary ID cards. We need something more sustainable, something peop…

x-icon Sat Feb 09 18:02:05 +0000 2019


It isn’t just refugees. This topic paper was submitted for next month’s #RebootingWebOfTrust in Barcelona on digital identity issues of the homeless. “These “lost citizens” have no access to social service, no ability to transact, and no clear citizenship” https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/Digital-Identity-for-the-Homeless.md

x-icon Sat Feb 09 18:05:52 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: It isn’t just refugees. This topic paper was submitted for next month’s #RebootingWebOfTrust in Barcelona on digital iden…

x-icon Sat Feb 09 18:06:00 +0000 2019


RT @JoeAndrieu: @BenLaurie With my DID in the verifiable credential from the DMV, the cryptographic material behind it can be created fro…

x-icon Sat Feb 09 18:17:59 +0000 2019


RT @BekahHW: Dear extrovert friends,

If you see a person standing alone at a conference looking around, invite them into your group. This…

x-icon Sat Feb 09 18:20:13 +0000 2019


“As a final takeaway, consider that in the 4th quarter of 2018, as Bitcoin price and interest seemed to hit their doldrums, 23 countries on LBC had their best quarters ever. Almost all of these countries are in the developing world.” https://medium.com/@mattahlborg/nuanced-analysis-of-localbitcoins-data-suggests-bitcoin-is-working-as-satoshi-intended-d8b04d3ac7b2

x-icon Sat Feb 09 18:48:23 +0000 2019


“I think members of Congress know that this could become the third rail. Be careful what you touch, be careful what you do, because you may get away with something for a while — but if the voters and consumers find out what you did, you might find yourself in trouble.” @AGBecerra https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/1094255198917279744

x-icon Sat Feb 09 18:56:45 +0000 2019


RT @doctorow: The digital world is a steady march towards a new kind of feudalism in which nothing is “sold” to us, only rented, making us…

x-icon Sat Feb 09 19:04:02 +0000 2019


A baby Cthulhu https://twitter.com/thedepthsbeIow/status/1093725804490559488

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RT @Steve_Lockstep: @R_Chirgwin @lukOlejnik So the first Q is: Who really needs this identity of which they speak??
“The ability to prove y…

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RT @Steve_Lockstep: @R_Chirgwin @lukOlejnik I agree of course that a practical, efficient, safe digital life necessitates being able to pro…

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Replying to @nileshtrivedi

When I was in 3rd grade I “discovered” prime numbers. Rather than explain them my teacher asked how many of them were there? Intuitively I said can’t be too many, so she asked me to find out. My hypothesis held up until I hit 101 & 103—a joy in being wrong! Great teacher!

x-icon Sat Feb 09 19:17:06 +0000 2019


Replying to @piratebeachbum

I invested to support a coercion-resistant (aka censorship resistant) currency that allows freedom of association by those without power or authority.

x-icon Sat Feb 09 19:19:40 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @piratebeachbum I invested to support a coercion-resistant (aka censorship resistant) currency that allows freedom of ass…

x-icon Sat Feb 09 20:36:19 +0000 2019


Replying to @lessig and @LarryWest42

I understand why the US congress can’t add requirements, as under constitution Presidential elections are totally up to the states. But it is less clear to me why states can place limits. Or not seat delegates to Electoral College.

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RT @katherineykwu: Anyway, I know there is a ton more to this debate. Open to book recs on this topic!

If you’re looking for something to…

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RT @bodaceacat: Tweet thread time: The @credcoalition #MisinfosecWG wrote its first paper, and surveyed existing #misinfosec (work combinin…

x-icon Sat Feb 09 21:31:30 +0000 2019


RT @lopp: Satoshi Roundtable V was fun and informative - here’s a recap of the discussions I had on topics such as Lightning Network, Priva…

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Replying to @lessig, @bertil_hatt and @LarryWest42

I concur it is a slippery slope. But for 40 years it was the tradition. And… “In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president givers up the bulk of his privacy.”—Roger Mudd

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Replying to @lessig, @bertil_hatt and @LarryWest42

Also one of my most shared quotes “Privacy technologies are a two-edged sword. The best is we can hold the powerful accountable for their actions. The worst is we weaponize identity against the powerless.”

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Replying to @lessig, @bertil_hatt and @LarryWest42

http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/web/presidentialtaxreturns

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RT @S4Pattern: Self-sovereign identity - Dec 2018 talk by @ChristopherA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g6KSv1aeuI principles: https://stories.jolocom.com/a-universal-identity-layer-we-can-only-build-together-e297ed5ae4ed https:…

x-icon Sat Feb 09 23:43:32 +0000 2019


RT @seanodiggity: @Idsbraam @kuhn_reinhard @onfiretypeguy @syberghost @doctorow don’t worry, we’ll soon need a clean room environment w/ a…

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RT @seanodiggity: @Idsbraam @kuhn_reinhard @onfiretypeguy @syberghost @doctorow …we’ll do that inside a FOSS OS in a VM or off a USB key…

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This is why I haven’t been to #BurningMan yet—I want to be a creator not consumer. Need more time! “One of the most distressing trends is the increase of participants…who don’t seem invested in co-creating Black Rock City & are attending as consumers.” https://journal.burningman.org/2019/02/philosophical-center/tenprinciples/cultural-course-correcting/

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Replying to @heathervescent

I just have not had the time to date to be the creator I want to be to join #BurningMan, and have too much respect for the creators who do go to just be a participant. So many of my friends have worked out that life balance but my life is pretty full right now (and fulfilling).

x-icon Sun Feb 10 01:44:10 +0000 2019


An octopus juggling simulator? https://twitter.com/rampcapitalllc/status/1094353168136310786?s=21

x-icon Sun Feb 10 01:46:34 +0000 2019


RT @zooko: A list of 15 money laundering operations that have come to light. And no—none of them have anything to do with cybercoins like B…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 01:51:59 +0000 2019


For 10 years I helped run @iPhoneDevCamp #iOSDevCamp hackathon, which many have said one of the best collaborative & most diverse hackathons. @Dom has taken the mantle onward to do #DevCamp last week with 31% female participation! And some great hacks. Congratulations! https://twitter.com/dom/status/1093928310273466368

x-icon Sun Feb 10 02:03:26 +0000 2019


RT @sujamthe: @EnricCirne @erico @dom @iPhoneDevCamp @Adobe @phonegap @Google @flutterio @HeroCitySpace @niyeturner Watching the demos buil…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 02:03:35 +0000 2019


RT @erico: At my 13th DevCamp as @Dom Sagolla talks about a rich history beginning with @iPhoneDevCamp 2007.

It was at this amazing hackat…

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RT @dom: “All of these brands I’ve worked with, all these companies that I’ve worked with… I couldn’t have done it if it wasn’t for Develop…

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RT @seanodiggity: I wasted my Saturday afternoon arguing about printer ink. This @doctorow thread covers more about digital freedom, econom…

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If you are in Toronto this meetup is likely to be interesting. #SystemChange theory & Christopher Alexander’s pattern language thoughts are oddly connected to blockchain design & governance. Satoshi appears to have been a multi-disciplinarian and you should be too. [https://twitter.com/zaid__khan/status/1094383146081017856](https://twitter.com/zaid__khan/status/1094383146081017856)

x-icon Sun Feb 10 02:12:15 +0000 2019


An interdisciplinary skill that I believe Satoshi had were the habits of a system thinker. Brief summary of habits/sub-skills of a systems thinker are at http://www.watersfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/HOST_Blue-1.pdf and more free materials from the Waters Foundation.

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A skill & tool related to System Thinking are Causal Loop Diagrams. To date I’ve never seen anything that quite does as well at demonstrating some of the paradoxical outcomes in some systems. Here is an example of Tragedy of the Commons (though it is more effective animated):

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https://twitter.com/christophera/status/1094463573529583616?s=21

x-icon Sun Feb 10 05:10:54 +0000 2019


When I was faculty in the MBA for Sustainable Systems at BGI/Pinchot/Presidio, the students had had extensive training in use of causal loop diagramming & analysis. I’ve not found any full tutorials online but there is a good into at https://systemsandus.com/2012/08/15/learn-to-read-clds/

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Some other Systems Thinking tools are described in this post from The Systems Thinker (site for which has a lot of other good resources): https://thesystemsthinker.com/a-palette-of-systems-thinking-tools/

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Here is an example of a causal loop diagram for the Israel-Palestine Conflict, as well as an intervention leverage points implied by the model. https://thesystemsthinker.com/a-systemic-view-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

x-icon Sun Feb 10 05:27:27 +0000 2019


This is a causal loop diagram by Army Staff on the Afghan conflict. Gen. McChrystal joked “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war”, and since has been labeled “worst powerpoint slide”. However, as I know CLDs, I actually find it powerful. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html

x-icon Sun Feb 10 05:34:03 +0000 2019


I would really like to see the blockchain mechanism/incentive design communities, as well as the decentralized governance communities learn causal loop diagramming. As these can be incredibly complex systems with non-linear or even paradoxical effects, CLDs can help spot them.

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Replying to @diachronist and @RufusYoakam

I’ve been trying to spot one. Best I’ve seen on net is loopy: [https://ncase.me/loopy/v1/?data=[[1,866,692,0.66,%22rabbits%22,0],[2,1302,693,0.66,%22foxes%22,1],[3,590,694,0.5,%22rabbit%2520births%22,0],[4,1611,685,0.5,%22fox%2520births%22,1]],[[2,1,153,-1,0],[1,2,160,1,0],[1,3,95,1,0],[3,1,122,1,0],[2,4,111,1,0],[4,2,123,1,0]],[[1081,705,%22A%2520basic%2520ecological%250Afeedback%2520loop.%250A%250ATry%2520adding%2520extra%250Acreatures%2520to%2520this%250Aecosystem!%22],[1081,498,%22more%2520rabbits%2520means%2520MORE%2520foxes%253A%250Ait%27s%2520a%2520positive%2520(%252B)%2520relationship%22],[1090,902,%22more%2520foxes%2520means%2520FEWER%2520rabbits%253A%250Ait%27s%2520a%2520negative%2520(%25E2%2580%2593)%2520relationship%22],[1464,909,%22*%2520P.S%253A%2520this%2520is%2520NOT%2520the%2520%250ALotka-Volterra%2520model.%250AIt%27s%2520just%2520an%2520oscillator.%250Aclose%2520enough!%22]],4%5D

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Replying to @diachronist and @RufusYoakam

Here is where I found that animation, which has some criticisms of the loopy tool for doing CLDs: https://metasd.com/2017/03/loopy/

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RT @ChristopherA: Here is an example of a causal loop diagram for the Israel-Palestine Conflict, as well as an intervention leverage points…

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RT @ChristopherA: This is a causal loop diagram by Army Staff on the Afghan conflict. Gen. McChrystal joked “When we understand that slide…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 05:49:00 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: I would really like to see the blockchain mechanism/incentive design communities, as well as the decentralized governance…

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Replying to @scottcarat

Quick google search found this one. Unfortunately full paper behind paywall: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0377221718306398

x-icon Sun Feb 10 06:18:21 +0000 2019


Replying to @kevinakwok

I had to use a VM on my mac to run the rather poor UI of the expensive CLD tool we used during the MBA program. I was the VMware image but it doesn’t work anymore. #bitrot I’m unclear on what is best CLD tool today.

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Replying to @kevinakwok

Vensim looks intriguing. They offer a free non-commercial & educational version and support a Mac version. They also support random inputs, monte-carlo optimization, continuous & discrete arrays, and more. https://vensim.com/free-download/

x-icon Sun Feb 10 06:37:41 +0000 2019


Replying to @kevinakwok

I did once try to build a company to do these kind of tools. It was called Reorient Media and our first tool was Infinite Canvas, second was Infinite PDF. Never could get the funding. https://angel.co/reorient-media

x-icon Sun Feb 10 08:16:03 +0000 2019


Replying to @kevinakwok

“The mission of ReOrient Media is to create tools that allow people to communicate effectively about complexity.”

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Replying to @oliverbeige

I disagree. The problem is that 20th century styles of learning taught us to simplify problems by breaking them down to bite-sized. But all the problems that can be solved that way have been solved. What remains are complex problems, which we have no tolerance for learning to fix

x-icon Sun Feb 10 08:24:48 +0000 2019


Replying to @oliverbeige

Causal Loop Diagrams have their limits, but I’ve seen little to replace them for a dive into complexity. I would love better tools, and once tried to start a company to build them, but marketplace (and VCs) wanted simplicity & less learning curve to understand. Not sure possible.

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Replying to @oliverbeige

Links to your drawbacks writing?

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Replying to @oliverbeige

I personally have an aversion to sticking to hard to a single tool or model—I prefer to focus on patterns between them. Building a CLD (as opposed to just viewing them) has some interesting positive effects. My goal in sharing then with blockchain community is those effects.

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Replying to @bobhilt

At one point in my career, post-TLS & pre-Bitcoin, I tried to build a company to do a number of these type of tools “The mission of ReOrient Media is to create tools that allow people to communicate effectively about complexity”. No demand unfortunately.

x-icon Sun Feb 10 08:39:56 +0000 2019


Replying to @usablelearning

A little. It was pretty, but didn’t have some of the features I liked in the more expensive software I used a few years ago when I last dove into this topic.

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Replying to @usablelearning

I think I will try vensim for this next time. They have a free non-commercial & educational version.

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RT @oliverbeige: Just how confused the economic profession is about this shines through in this recent article by MIT’s Dick Schmalensee on…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 14:03:20 +0000 2019


RT @oliverbeige: …even though he cannot express why (hint: like production, it is a growth cycle based on the right combination of factor…

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RT @oliverbeige: On the sophisticated end we have things like Bayesian belief networks and (closely related) Markov random fields. On the f…

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RT @oliverbeige: Re-evaluating the battle of the Olivers based on Holmström’s claim that Oliver Williamson wrote about firm as escape from…

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RT @oliverbeige: Still looking for any evidence in modern economic literature that “protection for exploitation” is the most relevant (coer…

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RT @mZargham: @mattdlockyer @ChristopherA @oliverbeige @block_science @MITSloan Per @ChristopherA, complexity is not en vogue, scientific s…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:05:11 +0000 2019


RT @meme_machines: @ChristopherA Agreed on paradoxical results! Kosko’s Fuzzy Cognitive Map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_cognitive_map started me on Systems…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:07:07 +0000 2019


RT @vgr: First there is hope that it is possible to make the processes of democracy more scientifically literate somehow, in ways that ar…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:08:28 +0000 2019


RT @bsuichies: An often misunderstood element of the next generation of credential based digital #identity systems is that they are no long…

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RT @theready: After two and a half years of learning, debate, and iteration, we’re thrilled to share our second iteration of the OS Canvas.…

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“But what is happening today is that the market has almost entirely turned into a betting machine. Not only that, it’s a machine for betting on a horse race in which it’s possible to cash your winning ticket long before the race has actually finished.” https://qz.com/1540608/the-problem-with-silicon-valleys-obsession-with-blitzscaling-growth/

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:44:45 +0000 2019


“Winners-take-all is an investment philosophy perfectly suited for our age of inequality and economic fragility, where a few get enormously rich, and the rest get nothing. In a balanced economy, there are opportunities for success at all scales”—@timoreilly in @TheAtlantic

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:46:04 +0000 2019


👍“many entrepreneurs can do far better than they can in the VC blitzscale model. They can build a business that they love, like I did, and continue to operate it for many years. If they do decide to exit, they will own far more of the proceeds.”—@timoreilly

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“There is incredible value to companies that operate at massive scale. But those companies have responsibilities that go with that scale, and one of those responsibilities is to provide an environment in which other, smaller companies and individuals can thrive.”—@timoreilly

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I call this last quote by @timoreilly a “Participatory Ecosystem” https://www.participatoryecosystem.com

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A source of many of our problems today: “The problem with the blitzscaling mentality is that a corporate DNA of perpetual, rivalrous, winner-takes-all growth is fundamentally incompatible with the responsibilities of a platform.”—@timoreilly

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👍💯”The goal for Lyft and Uber—and for all the entrepreneurs being urged to blitzscale—should be to make their companies more sustainable, not just more explosive; more equitable, not more extractive.”—@timoreilly

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RT @ChristopherA: “Winners-take-all is an investment philosophy perfectly suited for our age of inequality and economic fragility, where a…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:55:27 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: 👍“many entrepreneurs can do far better than they can in the VC blitzscale model. They can build a business that they love…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:55:29 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: “There is incredible value to companies that operate at massive scale. But those companies have responsibilities that go…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:55:31 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: I call this last quote by @timoreilly a “Participatory Ecosystem” https://www.participatoryecosystem.com

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:55:34 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: A source of many of our problems today: “The problem with the blitzscaling mentality is that a corporate DNA of perpetual…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:55:37 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: 👍💯”The goal for Lyft and Uber—and for all the entrepreneurs being urged to blitzscale—should be to make their companies m…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:55:39 +0000 2019


RT @mZargham: @ChristopherA I’ve taught a few people in the space:

trick for newbies is to list out concepts, then put them in a spreadshe…

x-icon Sun Feb 10 18:56:27 +0000 2019


Replying to @NoelleInMadrid

My Mom was a sail boat captain in USVI, and the flying fish would sometimes fly into the boat. She has this lovely photo of the ship’s cat, peering like hunting cat off the side of the boat, awaiting for the next mana from heaven.

x-icon Sun Feb 10 20:26:06 +0000 2019


The W3C-VCWG has released a new Working Draft of the “Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0” specification. We are approaching the end of a long road to making it a Candidate Recommendation and ultimately to a full standard. Take a look! https://www.w3.org/TR/verifiable-claims-data-model/

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Replying to @pamelarosiedee and @kimdhamilton

The playground has received much attention this year once we were able to prove the concept. At last #rwot we also decided to cut back on some MVP features. I’ve been focusing efforts on an iOS wallet, which means we also have to build a Bitcoin wallet. https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot7-toronto/blob/master/final-documents/btcr_0_1.md

x-icon Mon Feb 11 05:41:01 +0000 2019


Replying to @mZargham

I’m familiar with incidence matrices from electrical engineering, but not signed incidence matrices. Do you have a reference of its use in economics or mechanism design?

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Replying to @mZargham

Any examples demonstrating this practice of signed adjacency matrices?

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Replying to @dazraf and @trentmc0

We taught it in a special “MBA for Sustainable Systems” that teaches all the standard MBA topics but also 20 hours of system thinking, green economics, social change theory & ethics. I taught “Using the Social Web for Social Change” & “Digital Influence” & helped revise 1st year.

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Replying to @Snubs

A large part of the population is bitter sensitive, probably a survival gene as many poisonous plants are bitter. IPAs are by definition bitter because they preserve the ale during shipping to India. I’m bitter sensitive too and about 50% of beers I don’t like. Tried Belgian yet?

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Replying to @mZargham

When teaching CLDs an early milestone was getting to tragedy of commons loops. But I’m wanting to get blockchain incentive/mechanism design community to think about using better tools. Maybe token curated registries? @trentmc0 https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/towards-a-practice-of-token-engineering-b02feeeff7ca

x-icon Mon Feb 11 18:18:19 +0000 2019


RT @trentmc0: Dear twittersphere, a challenge:
Do a causal loop diagram of TCRs. 🏋️‍♀️

Shouldn’t be too hard:)
Ht @ChristopherA
More c…

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RT @mZargham: @ChristopherA @trentmc0 I just back-of-the-enveloped a bitcoin mining CLD. Crypto-twitter, if i overlooked something don’t la…

x-icon Mon Feb 11 21:30:09 +0000 2019


Replying to @kevinakwok, @nilsie and @AOC

I taught about digital influence in a green MBA program, and two of my students ran for Washington State Senate—one won. Her team said the lessons from class were significant part of their plan. https://www.electmona.com

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Replying to @kevinakwok, @nilsie and @AOC

But in general I find Progessived less willing to use these tactics — they tend to fall back on facts and believe emotional tactics too manipulative (though I taught ethics). Rs have no qualms about using these tactics, including the less ethical ones that I taught to avoid.

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Replying to @kevinakwok, @nilsie and @AOC

It is missing the audio now (slideshare dropped the slidecasts feature which I loved) but here are my intro slides for that part of class. By end of quarter they had to demonstrate influence. https://www.slideshare.net/ChristopherA/tactics-of-persuasion-influence-bgiedu

x-icon Tue Feb 12 03:01:15 +0000 2019


Replying to @kevinakwok, @nilsie and @AOC

I also taught some Lakoff framing exercises. At end of course they (largely western Washington State progressives) had to try to frame their messages for eastern Washington conservatives. Learned to properly use frames like stewardship, responsibility, family, etc.

x-icon Tue Feb 12 03:09:42 +0000 2019


Excellent advice on best practices of online community engagement, as well as surviving it when doing the job gets rough, from game designer and community builder extraordinaire @raphkoster. Applicable to Twitter & other social media but also online forums & mailing lists. https://twitter.com/raphkoster/status/1095055912883159040

x-icon Tue Feb 12 05:58:07 +0000 2019


RT @hackylawyER: Bingo. “We should be highly skeptical of any proposal that would wipe out existing privacy laws that protect consumers or…

x-icon Tue Feb 12 06:51:44 +0000 2019


RT @santicasas: “Bruce Schneier, Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identities” by @ibasart @ValidatedID
An answer to the post published by @sch…

x-icon Tue Feb 12 16:10:34 +0000 2019


Replying to @mutineering

I think this is fundamental to all tools, models & processes, and is a lesson that everyone dealing with #complexity needs to learn early. We can talk about it to explain it but to truly learn it you have to experience it. Not sure how best to guide that experience.

x-icon Tue Feb 12 19:31:53 +0000 2019


Replying to @justkelly_ok and @digitalsista

I’ve reported this tweet to Twitter as harming others.

x-icon Tue Feb 12 19:45:27 +0000 2019


Replying to @justkelly_ok and @digitalsista

Not your tweet, kelly, the misinformation one.

x-icon Tue Feb 12 19:46:22 +0000 2019


Replying to @itsDeenasaur and @muscularpikachu

I loved how Arabic calligraphy was used in the graphic novel Habibi. I look forward to hearing more about yours!

x-icon Tue Feb 12 22:07:34 +0000 2019


RT @Steve_Lockstep: Thanks @1WorldIdentity! Congrats @EmLindley @pamelarosiedee @xmlgrrl @Yubico @jonibrennan @SystemsandTech @andredurand…

x-icon Tue Feb 12 22:10:15 +0000 2019


RT @yorkerhodes: Congrats to fellow collaborators @marianadahan @dakotagruener @csuwildcat @kim_cameron @ChristopherA ; well deserved https…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 06:23:14 +0000 2019


RT @ibasart: @schneierblog The conclusion of your article shocked me. For that reason I wrote a post explaining why in certain areas, like…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 16:24:13 +0000 2019


RT @csuwildcat: @brutemorse @ibasart @schneierblog Why a blockchain? DPKI requires the following:

  • Global, immutable, append-only log

-…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 16:24:19 +0000 2019


Replying to @mayazi

“Dissolvable Creative Collaborations” has been on my vision list since I first attracted investors in 88, but we did SSL/TLS instead. Working on this again this month, 31 years later, on how to do this under new Wyoming Blockchain laws, with app for creation, legal & governance.

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:08:06 +0000 2019


Replying to @dhh1128, @bascule, @WayneVaughan, @BenLaurie, @SovrinID and @drummondreed

We are also working on better cryptography & UI for social key recovery at next #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona on March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com — see two advance topic papers in https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:13:17 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

We are also working on better cryptography & UI for social key recovery at next #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona on March 1-3 http://rwot8.eventbrite.com — see two advance topic papers in https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:16:19 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

Potential improvements range from memorable “poetry” keys, better Shamir approaches & code, shared secure key generation (like z-cash stark but for individuals), verifing remote key existence, better social UX & better UI, and more.

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:20:12 +0000 2019


Replying to @mayazi

Hollywood does this for “above the line” creative collaborators such as producers, directors, writers, and actors through unions. We can do better, cheaper, and more transparent & fair, but also for game designers, books, interactive experiences, and more.

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:23:21 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @mayazi “Dissolvable Creative Collaborations” has been on my vision list since I first attracted investors in 88, but we…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:23:26 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @mayazi Hollywood does this for “above the line” creative collaborators such as producers, directors, writers, and actors…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:23:31 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @BenLaurie We are also working on better cryptography & UI for social key recovery at next #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:23:51 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @BenLaurie Potential improvements range from memorable “poetry” keys, better Shamir approaches & code, shared secure key…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:23:55 +0000 2019


RT @caelumlabs: Don’t miss next #Devcentralised meetup about new identity models with @ChristopherA & @drummondreed + presentation of #Rebo…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:39:30 +0000 2019


RT @Foone: If I was setting up curriculum at a university I’d make an entire semester-long class on The Challenger disaster, and make it re…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:45:07 +0000 2019


WARNING: I don’t find this secure & believe it violates best practices of digital asset key storage. Reason: humans are bad at creating passwords & reuse them. If you must, use unique EFF diceware, but then you have to protect that password! Just protect your mnemonics instead! https://twitter.com/CoinbaseWallet/status/1095386639105384448

x-icon Wed Feb 13 18:58:48 +0000 2019


#RebootingWebOfTrust is investing this year in building up our EU community by hosting our 8th design workshop on human-rights centric self-sovereign decentralized identity in Barcelona on March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com. We also want to be in EU in September! Join & help us!

x-icon Wed Feb 13 19:19:16 +0000 2019


We are seeking to follow our spring Barcelona design workshop by finding local hosts & sponsors for our 9th #RebootingWebOfTrust tentatively September 17-19th somewhere in Northern Europe or Switzerland. Contact me if you are interested!

x-icon Wed Feb 13 19:24:25 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: We are seeking to follow our spring Barcelona design workshop by finding local hosts & sponsors for our 9th #RebootingWeb…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 19:24:31 +0000 2019


Replying to @coopsource and @mayazi

I’m working on the side nurturing a project leveraging new Wyoming blockchain laws that will hopefully make this much easier. 2018/HB0101 passed last year allowing equity holders to be represented by keys, and 2019/HB0185 in progress for equity tokens. https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2019/HB0185

x-icon Wed Feb 13 21:57:35 +0000 2019


Replying to @coopsource and @mayazi

Here is the text of last year’s bill that allows a shareholder to be “the owner of a private key that is uniquely associated with a data address” https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2018/HB0101

x-icon Wed Feb 13 22:00:17 +0000 2019


Replying to @coopsource and @mayazi

Other interesting bills in progress this session: “developer or seller of an open blockchain token shall not be deemed the issuer of a security ” https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2018/HB0070

x-icon Wed Feb 13 22:02:18 +0000 2019


Replying to @coopsource and @mayazi

Financial tech sandbox to allow innovation https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2019/HB0057

x-icon Wed Feb 13 22:03:46 +0000 2019


Replying to @coopsource and @mayazi

And this bill to support “Special Purpose Depository Institutions” (aka banks) to “provide a necessary and valuable service to blockchain innovators” (aka access to banking services denied to many US blockchain businesses) https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2019/HB0074

x-icon Wed Feb 13 22:12:25 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @coopsource @mayazi I’m working on the side nurturing a project leveraging new Wyoming blockchain laws that will hopefull…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 22:12:33 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @coopsource @mayazi Here is the text of last year’s bill that allows a shareholder to be “the owner of a private key that…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 22:12:36 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @coopsource @mayazi Financial tech sandbox to allow innovation https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2019/HB0057

x-icon Wed Feb 13 22:12:38 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @coopsource @mayazi And this bill to support “Special Purpose Depository Institutions” (aka banks) to “provide a necessar…

x-icon Wed Feb 13 22:12:42 +0000 2019


RT @trentmc0: DIDs and DDOs were born at RWoT. Amazing community, and work. It’s coming to Barcelona next. https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1095764360725618689

x-icon Wed Feb 13 22:12:49 +0000 2019


Replying to @coopsource and @mayazi

It will be complicated, and like you #IANL. But corporate law is usually defined by states. At least one person will still have to reveal personal information to register an EIN and do KYC/AML to have a bank account, even with these special depository banks.

x-icon Wed Feb 13 23:11:17 +0000 2019


A whitepaper from our last #RebootingWebOfTrust, on “Use Cases and Proposed Solutions for Verifiable Offline Credentials” lead by @mikelodder with @WolfMcnally & @blondtron. What do you do when you need to Verify Credentials but are remote or not online? https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot7-toronto/blob/master/final-documents/offline-use-cases.md

x-icon Wed Feb 13 23:57:28 +0000 2019


Replying to @mikelodder, @WolfMcnally and @blondtron

Scenarios include: Marine, Subterranean, Remote Expeditions, Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), Epidemic Outbreaks, Public Health Events, Disaster Zones, Missionary, Humanitarian Service, Refugee Camps, Resource Allocation and Management, Delegative Democracy.

x-icon Thu Feb 14 00:00:39 +0000 2019


Replying to @mikelodder, @WolfMcnally and @blondtron

Solutions include: Offline Ledgers, Asynchronous Ledger Updates, Proofs of Ledger State, Offline Digital Wallets, Offline Transmission, LC4 Cypher Verifiable by Humans w/o Computer using 36 Cards, Offline State Hashing, etc.

x-icon Thu Feb 14 00:05:04 +0000 2019


Replying to @taoeffect, @csuwildcat, @rodmar_, @brutemorse, @ibasart and @schneierblog

Re: “implementations of DPKI and CONIKS must support decentralized key recovery to really address MITM attacks” next #RebootingWebOfTrust is diving into social key recovery. See two submitted advance readings (so far).

x-icon Thu Feb 14 01:13:39 +0000 2019


Replying to @taoeffect, @csuwildcat, @rodmar_, @brutemorse, @ibasart and @schneierblog

I agree that CT is too centralized, but has anyone looked into seriously if the underlying tech for CT, called Trillian, or Coniks could be adapted for DIDs? After all, we still have a number of proposed public but permissioned blockchains for DIDs and the line between seems gray

x-icon Thu Feb 14 01:29:12 +0000 2019


Replying to @dksf, @jack, @kayvz and @Periscope

I still just want an iOS app where I can record a question, my colleague can asynchronously record an answer, back and forth, and at the end I can either edit briefly in the app, download the audio to edit professionally, or post to my own podcast immediately. #WouldPayForThat

x-icon Thu Feb 14 02:30:28 +0000 2019


So many interdisciplinary things you need to at least have the basics of to truly understand blockchains & cryptocurrencies. And just the basics likely makes you dangerous as you think you know. So the hardest skill is humility & “I don’t know” or “I’m not sure”. https://twitter.com/oliverbeige/status/1081138119569784832

x-icon Thu Feb 14 03:29:23 +0000 2019


Replying to @ChrisLundkvist

Yes, I’ve been critical of http://blockchain.info & JavaScript based wallets for years. However, in the ecosystem Coinbase is a giant—having them support this practice is security theatre & worse is the password choice isn’t self sovereign. Best to protect your recovery words!

x-icon Thu Feb 14 15:56:40 +0000 2019


RT @james_monaghan: I can’t recommend this group highly enough. If you are able to be a part of this, you won’t regret it. https://t.co/3UZ…

x-icon Thu Feb 14 15:57:06 +0000 2019


RT @CaitlinLong_: 1/ BOOM! #Wyoming just recognized clear, direct property rights for #digitalassets by passing SF125! This means #blockcha…

x-icon Thu Feb 14 21:24:41 +0000 2019


RT @OpenPriv: Happy Valentine’s Day! 💜💜💜

What better day to launch the alpha of a project designed to bring people together safely and sec…

x-icon Thu Feb 14 21:38:47 +0000 2019


Replying to @AdamMGunther, @mwieck, @imogenheap, @mycelia4music, @IBMBlockchain and @SovrinID

Any way we can get some of these EU folk to share their work at #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com ? We are investing in building a self-sovereign identity community in Europe.

x-icon Thu Feb 14 21:41:22 +0000 2019


Replying to @alicegoldfuss

https://twitter.com/christophera/status/943238903619756032?s=21

x-icon Thu Feb 14 21:42:53 +0000 2019


Replying to @alicegoldfuss

My high school was quite progressive, with lots of small electives like Ancient Greek.

x-icon Thu Feb 14 21:44:27 +0000 2019


RT @dan_ballard: We are releasing an alpha today of Cwtch. This is the culmination of a year’s work. It represents a huge amount of backend…

x-icon Thu Feb 14 21:48:00 +0000 2019


Replying to @kanzure, @advbitcoin and @LDNBitcoinDevs

I’d be glad to have Blockchain Commons support the logistics of this. I am frustrated with speeches, podcasts, and videos as I can scan to read them or search.

x-icon Thu Feb 14 21:49:50 +0000 2019


Replying to @SSIMeetup, @truu_id, @james_monaghan, @drummondreed, @evernym, @windley, @RuffTimo, @nickris, @apoikola and @peacekeeper

I would really like to get more doctors & medical professionals to share with us more use cases and scenarios at #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Thu Feb 14 21:53:56 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: I would like a Lightning Network service, where I can establish a channel to fund pinning of IPFS objects—satoshi are pai…

x-icon Thu Feb 14 23:14:51 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

It is in the proposal in my topic paper to do user testing on these SKS ideas. We have my iOS dev on-site so we can UI test some ideas that the team come up with, and then test with naive users after. HTC also has a Shamir SKS on their new Exodus phone and will be there.

x-icon Fri Feb 15 05:36:22 +0000 2019


RT @wmclaxton: @ChristopherA Just read a fabulous piece on “right to obscurity” by former FTC Commissioner Judy Brill. This is why we don’t…

x-icon Fri Feb 15 07:22:52 +0000 2019


Replying to @bquittem

I’d start with my old paper https://twitter.com/christophera/status/724754197762068480 & my 2nd anniversary https://twitter.com/christophera/status/989120215702261761. If you want to go deeper see collaborative reports we did at #RebootingWebOfTrust https://www.weboftrust.info/papers.html or standards efforts at W3C Credentials CG https://w3c-ccg.github.io

x-icon Fri Feb 15 22:27:31 +0000 2019


Replying to @bquittem

Next #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona on March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com - then again in mid-September, also in Europe.

x-icon Fri Feb 15 22:28:43 +0000 2019


Replying to @jamie247 and @SovrinID

In addition to @Sovrin/@Evernym there are quite a few startups involved in self-sovereign identity @digitalbazaar, @LearningMach1, @VennAgencyLA, @protocollabs, @BigchainDB, @civickey and many more involved in #RebootingWebOfTrust & W3C Credentials CG https://w3c-ccg.github.io

x-icon Fri Feb 15 22:41:40 +0000 2019


Excellent article by ⁦@Appelcline⁩ on value proposition for decentralization “address some of those problems that led off this article: the possible loss of your music, your books, and your very identity to centralized networks.” https://blog.goodaudience.com/why-decentralization-matters-or-how-not-to-lose-your-music-your-books-and-your-identity-a756e6a341e1

x-icon Sat Feb 16 05:53:31 +0000 2019


RT @DelRayMan: I received a strange package at the office yesterday, only to discover it contained a cryptocurrency-enabled #Exodus1 phone…

x-icon Sat Feb 16 05:55:28 +0000 2019


RT @MiguelCuneta: This is why I love @Twitter. Down a rabbit hole of a thread about identity, I found this article deep down the conversati…

x-icon Sat Feb 16 06:25:32 +0000 2019


RT @Appelcline: One of the first things that I learned when I started managing online communities is that one bad member can drive out ten,…

x-icon Sat Feb 16 07:19:18 +0000 2019


Replying to @kemitchell

As my only experience with law school is “The Paper Chase”, I need a little more context to understand. (BTW, the TV series based on the movie actually taught me a fair amount of contract law ☺️)

x-icon Sat Feb 16 07:24:40 +0000 2019


RT @Blockstream: We’re excited to announce an update to #BlockstreamExplorer which includes no-Javascript support, performance improvements…

x-icon Sat Feb 16 07:32:39 +0000 2019


Replying to @Blockstream, @adam3us, @Excellion, @LarryBitcoin, @Snyke, @rusty_twit, @wtogami, @theinstagibbs, @Mario_Gibney, @notgrubles and @nwoodfine

We’ve been working on an airgap Bitcoin wallet for iOS. One app doesn’t work unless network is off, presumably an old iPhone you can put in a safe. The is an iPhone with network. All communication is via QR codes. Also plan to support PSBT. All as proof of concept for standards.

x-icon Sat Feb 16 07:35:22 +0000 2019


Article on a Chinese flat management cooperative “a case study in what can be accomplished when an established company is willing to challenge bureaucracy’s authoritarian structures and rule-choked practices” There are some US companies also doing this. https://hbr.org/2018/11/the-end-of-bureaucracy

x-icon Sat Feb 16 07:43:46 +0000 2019


I have an opinionated guide to participatory organization practices at top of this GitHub community as well as a collection of resources for people wanting to build more participatory orgs. https://github.com/participatoryOrgs/

x-icon Sat Feb 16 07:51:06 +0000 2019


Replying to @katrynadow, @Qantas, @GSMA, @CongresWorld, @sxsw and @meeco_me

And #RebootingWebOfTrust! Looking forward to working with you and @hackylawyER on #RightsNotProperty

x-icon Sat Feb 16 08:00:09 +0000 2019


Replying to @Xis10tialThreat, @Blockstream, @adam3us, @Excellion, @LarryBitcoin, @Snyke, @rusty_twit, @wtogami, @theinstagibbs, @Mario_Gibney, @notgrubles and @nwoodfine

There are some of the underlying iOS Swift libraries at https://GitHub.com/BlockchainCommons — more to come as the project evolves. Lead iOS engineer is @WolfMcNally.

x-icon Sat Feb 16 09:03:48 +0000 2019


Replying to @F0nta1n3, @Blockstream, @adam3us, @Excellion, @LarryBitcoin, @Snyke, @rusty_twit, @wtogami, @theinstagibbs, @Mario_Gibney, @notgrubles and @nwoodfine

We’d love to see more people involved as it is intended to be all open source —although it it is pretty unripe right now. https://twitter.com/christophera/status/1096696637852868608?s=21

x-icon Sat Feb 16 09:06:47 +0000 2019


RT @hackylawyER: “Trust and, thus, privacy, is therefore best viewed as a common-pool resource for the online ecosystem to manage, not as a…

x-icon Sat Feb 16 17:23:23 +0000 2019


Replying to @k8em0 and @k8em0

I’d actually like to talk to you about a possible major customer that can afford to pay you as they want to set up a bounty program and understand best practices.

x-icon Sat Feb 16 17:28:47 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

The topic papers are only to inspire the team creation & mine was among the first. There was no guarantee then it would inspire a team. I have been recruiting more people to help. You will now note a whole section of various suggestions around UX & use cases with 9 papers.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 00:35:11 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

My paper begins “(SKR) protocol should not just reflect what cryptographic primitives happen to be available for use, but rather instead should be designed to correspond with the structure of trust in the user’s social network while balancing the technical tradeoffs”

x-icon Sun Feb 17 00:38:25 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

You are welcome to come join us and raise specifics of your UX concerns and help us prepare what we can do in three days to allow UX work to begin. Or send someone. That is how a collaborative design workshop works. https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Sun Feb 17 00:42:11 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

In the 2nd SKR advance topic posted it says “However, we have focussed here mainly on technical limitations of such schemes. There are many other social aspects which pose threats, and the variety of use-cases makes this a broad field of research.” https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/security_shamirs.md

x-icon Sun Feb 17 00:45:12 +0000 2019


They are still playing Monster Smash https://github.com/ChristopherA/MonsterSmashGame2001 at #Dundracon, the 1-page Play-Doh creature creation & smashing game that I wrote in ‘94. Got a hug from a mother who played it as a child, and another child who played it this morning was inspired to paint her unicorn.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 03:00:31 +0000 2019


I was particularly amused that the child kept the remains of her smashed “dragon-unicorn” from the morning Monster Smash game in a Play-Doh can all day as inspiration for painting her figurine. #creativity

x-icon Sun Feb 17 03:03:59 +0000 2019


I was also fascinated by the way this #DunDraCon #ProtoSpiel game designer @dunsmoregames used a cardboard “Phony” game console for his fighting game, for which the child clearly understood the expected game mechanics. #NextGenGamers

x-icon Sun Feb 17 03:14:07 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

Well, with constructive criticism from you maybe we’d make progress. Sounds like you’d rather put your energy into having us fail. If that is your style of being a “leader” today, that’s your problem, not ours. I at least am not standing on my laurels, instead solving problems.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 05:41:36 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

AKA do as I do: contribute, support, nurture, mentor the next generation & stop standing on a legacy hill. We didn’t complete many of our visions in the 90s & the next generation needs our help to learn from our successes but not repeat our mistakes. Be constructive, teach us!

x-icon Sun Feb 17 05:49:07 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

If we are missing talent and skills to solve the problems, help us identify them. Send us people that can help us test what we begin to implement. We are all volunteers with no budget, Google could sponsor us so we can offer scholarships to academics rather than charging.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 05:53:30 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

Submit a topic paper — come yourself, or send someone educate us and hold us to task on your concerns. I clearly agree with you on that more UX and social design work is needed, and would gladly support your goals. But I’m limited by who shows up to collaborate.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 05:58:47 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

Though I am founder & continue to be a leader, in the design workshop process it is the participants that decide what the can do together in their three days together collaborating. Many past collaborations have had impact, but not all. Other need more iteration, SKS is one.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 06:02:30 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

If there is someone from your company or community that can participate to address your concerns I will do all I can to make them welcome.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 06:04:01 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

I agree with the content of your message: need to devote more resources to UX. My critique is style of your message is “you’re going to fail”. Coming from a respected leader in security & influencer at Google, has significant weight. Please turn it around to “how not to fail”.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 06:26:55 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

I have no idea what your approach is. Share! If not #RebootingWebOfTrust then how about talking about it at W3C Credential CG? Three key differences? What are your three favorite papers? Who are the three top people that are influencing your design? Three best proofs of concept?

x-icon Sun Feb 17 06:30:49 +0000 2019


“HSMs do keep keys confidential, in a safe physical location which is tamper resistant. But when it comes to undesired or malicious usage of the key, HSMs provide very limited controls…” https://medium.com/block-to-basics/points-of-failure-why-hsms-fall-short-for-securing-digital-assets-db5c076d6126

x-icon Sun Feb 17 06:43:20 +0000 2019


“HSMs do not typically provide mechanisms for detection of key misuse & have no quorum auth…If an attacker compromises a system or application that has permissions to use keys…or if a rogue insider abuses such permissions, they can sign fraudulent cryptocurrency transactions…

x-icon Sun Feb 17 06:46:08 +0000 2019


“What all of this means, in practice, is that without robust usage controls in place, HSMs holding crypto-asset private keys, which only need to be used once to transfer ownership of potentially all funds in a wallet, have a vital vulnerability.”

x-icon Sun Feb 17 06:46:50 +0000 2019


Replying to @deviantollam

Typing was stigmatized for boys in my high school in Florida. My father and friend’s fathers dictated. One of my best choices to not follow the ordinary, as it enabled me to get on ground floor of computing and the changing nature of business.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 06:51:00 +0000 2019


Replying to @deviantollam

What I regret is that I didn’t take sketching and drawing in high school. I think I have the visual mind for it, but never had good hand eye coordination for it. It wasn’t my talent but I could have overcome it with practice and in retrospect would have been valuable to me.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 06:53:59 +0000 2019


Replying to @deviantollam and @nostalgiaNull

I was in HS band too, but in retrospect I wish I’d done jazz instead. Much easier as adult to find people to improv & play with and thus enjoy playing as hobby then finding a group that enjoys playing from sheet music.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 06:57:37 +0000 2019


Replying to @Kevin_Jackson, @Shirastweet and @ATTBusiness

If you are going to be at #MWC19 in #Barcelona, stay at least Thursday night for our meetup on Decentralized Identify, or come to #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) the day after on March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Sun Feb 17 07:01:32 +0000 2019


RT @literalbanana: Memetic consensus (as over the meaning of words, or proper names for places/people) is wilder and more intricate than fo…

x-icon Sun Feb 17 07:02:07 +0000 2019


RT @trbouma: “While swiping your credit card to buy a cup of coffee may feel instant, behind the scenes is a complex messy process involvin…

x-icon Sun Feb 17 19:14:26 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

That’s an abstract, not an approach. It could as be interpreted “Only trust Google with your keys”, which I don’t think is your intent. Share technical details. Post a paper or share some code. Declare your intent to support vendor-neutral, open source & patent free solutions.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 20:53:26 +0000 2019


Replying to @Nanjala1 and @sunil_abraham

I would love to get your knowledge of identity issues in non-first world uses cases in our next or future #RebootingWebOfTrust. The next (our 8th!) is in Barcelona on March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com after that in Mid-September also in Europe. 2020 we hope Asia.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 22:03:04 +0000 2019


RT @vgr: “The fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows one big thing” — Isaiah Berlin

A question: how do foxes and hedgehogs “know” fract…

x-icon Sun Feb 17 22:06:48 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

You say “not my venue” — so what is your venue? W3C? I’d be glad to host a talk by you in the W3C Credentials CG, or find you other places in W3C to share your ideas. IETF? Which group? An academic conference?

x-icon Sun Feb 17 22:10:19 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

We have discussed that key transparency (or more likely trillian) might also be able to offer a blockchain-less DID. But we’ve never been able to get someone with experience about it at one of our events or at W3C to work on a DID Method spec for it. I would support that work.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 22:14:14 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

Much of #RebootingWebOfTrust and mostly at #W3C we also have not worked on identity—our biggest successes are for decentralized idenifIERS. These include ways to allow them to to have these 15 features: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-use-cases/#features

x-icon Sun Feb 17 22:19:43 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

DIDs don’t have to be self-sovereign. The specification supports it, but there is nothing that says that a particular DID Method must be self-sovereign. A DID resolves to a data model where keys can be authenticated and supports some subset of actions: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-use-cases/#did-actions

x-icon Sun Feb 17 22:29:12 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

The DID specification is going through a major revision right now based on lessons learned by multiple companies implementing it on multiple blockchains. Many of them plan to meet F2F at #RebootingWebOfTrust to resolve differences & present new draft soon: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec

x-icon Sun Feb 17 22:33:25 +0000 2019


Replying to @BenLaurie

Yet another reason if you want to support KT-type solutions for you to be at #RebootingWebOfTrust, or present your thoughts at the W3C Credentials CCG. I personally would love to see a blockchain-less DID method. The W3C Verifiable Claims WG is also meeting F2F the 2 days after.

x-icon Sun Feb 17 22:37:22 +0000 2019


“they don’t approximate meaningful privacy protections for individuals because they only address data privacy…we do not tolerate tracking, targeting, profiling, and stalking in the real world. When we do, we expect these measures to be subject to significant limitations…by law” https://twitter.com/hackylawyER/status/1097264845739700224

x-icon Sun Feb 17 23:00:38 +0000 2019


RT @coinbase: Users of the Electrum Wallet, a popular desktop Bitcoin client, have been under a persistent attack since December 2018. Coin…

x-icon Sun Feb 17 23:04:27 +0000 2019


RT @matthew_d_green: What kind of broken country thinks clicking “Agree” on a multi-page electronic contract the issuer knows you haven’t r…

x-icon Sun Feb 17 23:07:18 +0000 2019


“These are classic Dark Patterns, deploying UX design against consumer privacy and in favor of corporate profit.”—@eff https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/designing-welcome-mats-invite-user-privacy-0

x-icon Sun Feb 17 23:09:35 +0000 2019


Difficult problem, but one that I support that we need solutions for: “We should be able to devise systems to track and quantify risk when everything is linked together via public ledgers and immutable automated contracts.”—@delitzer https://tokeneconomy.co/superfluid-collateral-in-open-finance-8c3db15efac

x-icon Sun Feb 17 23:19:19 +0000 2019


RT @kimdhamilton: Credentials CG discusses DID use cases: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2019-02-12/ #w3c #ccg

x-icon Mon Feb 18 07:30:55 +0000 2019


RT @jungly: @kimdhamilton @runcrypto @ChristopherA @danpape @jonnycrunch Sent a topic paper to #RebootingWebOfTrust describing why we neede…

x-icon Mon Feb 18 18:28:27 +0000 2019


RT @GarrettCobarr: @Steve_Lockstep @matthew_d_green @ChristopherA That’s just the beginning, say you do read the thousands of words and the…

x-icon Mon Feb 18 18:29:12 +0000 2019


RT @mayazi: Australia’s politicians recently passed laws weakening their own encryptions only to get hacked https://twitter.com/stephendziedzic/status/1097301641961689088

x-icon Mon Feb 18 20:45:25 +0000 2019


RT @Appelcline: How do you oust the bad actors from your online community, as a manager and as a member? I edited my tweetstorm from a few…

x-icon Mon Feb 18 20:46:12 +0000 2019


RT @Appelcline: KEYQUOTE: One bad member in a community can drive out ten, or even a hundred, good members. By keeping those bad community…

x-icon Mon Feb 18 20:46:14 +0000 2019


RT @MeeplesTogether: Community is another type of collaboration. In fact, we hope to write about community-facing things like reputation an…

x-icon Mon Feb 18 20:46:26 +0000 2019


RT @JoeAndrieu: @BenLaurie That’s fair. But, seriously, please come talk UX with us. My work has focused on language and the functional exp…

x-icon Mon Feb 18 20:47:43 +0000 2019


RT @MeeplesTogether: For some writing from an older collaboration between @ChristopherA & @Appelcline see our blog series from starting in…

x-icon Mon Feb 18 20:54:08 +0000 2019


RT @hackylawyER: @Steve_Lockstep The #GDPR goes further than most of the proposals on the table (apart from Washington state). But keep in…

x-icon Mon Feb 18 23:42:39 +0000 2019


RT @Steve_Lockstep: Here’s my unpublished letter.
The @Facebook blog post doesn’t accept comments at all, which is unsurprising. Facebook…

x-icon Mon Feb 18 23:43:48 +0000 2019


👍“Privacy is like voting. An individual’s privacy, like an individual’s vote, is usually largely irrelevant to anyone but themselves … but the accumulation of individual privacy or lack thereof, like the accumulation of individual votes, is enormously consequential.”—@rezendi https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/1094597368777977857

x-icon Tue Feb 19 00:43:57 +0000 2019


Replying to @Steve_Lockstep and @rezendi

There is a group of folk interested in the border territory around rethinking of privacy & #RightsNotProperty coming to next week’s #RebootingWebOfTrust including @hackylawyER

x-icon Tue Feb 19 05:57:19 +0000 2019


Replying to @Steve_Lockstep, @rezendi and @hackylawyER

4 advance reading papers (of many submitted) to next #RebootingWebOfTrust https://github.com/hackylawyER/rwot8-barcelona/blob/1debaa8a1d6b0c6a02e79e9557fbd7406de0c0b3/topics-and-advance-readings/rightsframeworks.md https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/on-interpersonal-data.md https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/structures_of_identity.pdf https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/Designing%20Trust%20in%20Identity%20Systems.md

x-icon Tue Feb 19 06:04:40 +0000 2019


Replying to @htcexodus

Also updated in this this tweet storm on the 2nd anniversary of the original post: https://twitter.com/christophera/status/989120215702261761?s=21

x-icon Tue Feb 19 07:06:35 +0000 2019


RT @htcexodus: Our adviser @ChristopherA is pushing the boundaries of Self-Sovereign #identity. You can read a post about his vision here:…

x-icon Tue Feb 19 07:06:40 +0000 2019


One last whitepaper from last Autumn’s #RebootingWebOfTrust goes final we begin next week’s Spring collaborations: “IPLD as a general pattern for DID documents and Verifiable Claims” led by @jonnycrunch w/@cycryptr, @kimdhamilton & @ChrisLundkvist #IPFS https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot7-toronto/blob/master/final-documents/ipld-did.md

x-icon Tue Feb 19 23:14:22 +0000 2019


I just realized that last weekend was the 25th anniversary of kids & adults playing my Monster Smash game at @DunDraCon. It is a “one-page” game where Play-Doh creatures grow fangs, legs, wings, tentacles, poison stings & more, and players compete for the right to smash them.

x-icon Tue Feb 19 23:34:18 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: I just realized that last weekend was the 25th anniversary of kids & adults playing my Monster Smash game at @DunDraCon.…

x-icon Tue Feb 19 23:34:40 +0000 2019


🤔”But why then should national interests be the ones we seek to build up? If we do, we will find every nation a free rider on global public goods, an oppressor of subnational minority community goods and …regarding goods that affect a range of minorities across countries.” https://twitter.com/RadxChange/status/1097616988464078848

x-icon Wed Feb 20 01:00:03 +0000 2019


“The greatest potential that Bitcoin has is to help the most vulnerable on this planet, those without bank accounts, identities, or access to the financial system”—@gladstein⁩ https://link.medium.com/tob5PbZUrU

x-icon Wed Feb 20 01:48:06 +0000 2019


I need to revisit this: “• Basic Contracts—
PAM Principal At Maturity
ANN Annuity
NAM Negative Amortizer
LAM Linear Amortizer
LAX Exotic Linear Amortizer
STK Stocks
• Combined Contracts—
FUTUR Futures
OPTNS Options
SWAPS Swaps
FXOUT Foreign Exchange Outright” #SmartSignature https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/743959465532153856

x-icon Wed Feb 20 02:22:50 +0000 2019


RT @BTCTN: No Internet, No Problem: How to Send Bitcoin by Amateur Radio https://ift.tt/2NfsSTg

x-icon Wed Feb 20 04:39:51 +0000 2019


RT @Blockstream: We’re excited to announce #MuSig code is now merged into secp256k1-zkp! MuSig is a new #Schnorr multisignature scheme for…

x-icon Wed Feb 20 04:42:39 +0000 2019


Challenging! “multi-party protocols present new & substantially more difficult challenges than single-party protocols…in terms of implementation complexity, MuSig has taken more effort and required more tradeoffs between antifragility and API flexibility” https://blockstream.com/2019/02/18/musig-a-new-multisignature-standard/

x-icon Wed Feb 20 04:48:48 +0000 2019


Replying to @signalapp

You should talk to the HTC @Exodus phone team & @philchen913 about getting on their secure phone by default and avoid the Google Play Store. I’d to see HTC offer a dedicated secure apps store like Blackphone once had. I can introduce if you need.

x-icon Wed Feb 20 05:05:18 +0000 2019


RT @BreakerMag: When @CaitlinLong_ learned she couldn’t donate #bitcoin to her alma mater, @UWyonews, she was “appalled.” Here’s what she d…

x-icon Wed Feb 20 06:50:54 +0000 2019


RT @htcexodus: We will be at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week and have big announcements for the #EXODUS1. Like if you will…

x-icon Wed Feb 20 06:55:08 +0000 2019


I still find this inspirational 31 years later. It does explain some of my rationale for diverse interests in games, trust systems, and collaboration. Still puzzling out how to do some of it. @JoeAndrieu @dustyweb @glenweyl @CaitlinLong_ @CleanApp @tim_bansemer @raphkoster #dgov https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/741113407726714880

x-icon Wed Feb 20 07:00:48 +0000 2019


Replying to @veikkoeeva, @PrivacyCDN, @hackylawyER and @L__Macfarlane

This likely will be a topic that will be nominated at next week’s #RebootingWebOfTrust in Barcelona for further development. @hackylawyER has submitted a topic paper and others are interested in supporting. https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/rightsframeworks.md

x-icon Wed Feb 20 18:00:49 +0000 2019


Was surprised by details of this browser vulnerability report as it is stack-based buffer overflow (old school—we rarely see these today), and that it was a very obscure bug in computational geometry code. It just goes to show how hard security can be. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-curious-case-of-convexity-confusion.html

x-icon Wed Feb 20 22:17:36 +0000 2019


“The Carpenter decision, Wessler said, opens the door to safeguarding other sensitive digital information in many future cases, such as emails, smart-home appliances and technology not yet invented.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/caitlinlong/2018/06/28/supreme-court-and-digital-privacy-should-blockchain-companies-challenge-the-bank-secrecy-act/

x-icon Wed Feb 20 23:11:30 +0000 2019


RT @Melt_Dem: when people say “never again” about events like the holocaust, they forget what enabled the systemic extermination of million…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 00:51:55 +0000 2019


RT @SarahJamieLewis: Seriously this code doesn’t even begin to approximate the standard that should be expected of a system designed to sec…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 00:58:57 +0000 2019


RT @WomeninID: Introducing: ⁦@hackylawyER⁩ an interview by ⁦@IdentityWoman⁩ thanks so much to ⁦@avocoidentity⁩ for helping in making these…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 00:59:28 +0000 2019


RT @MeeplesTogether: Our newest co-op case study covers Star Trek: Five-Year Mission, a clever little pattern-matching dice game, and the s…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 01:10:57 +0000 2019


Replying to @BitcoinemBassy, @udiWertheimer and @shesek

Has anyone puzzled through how to install Electrum Server on a fresh Mohave Mac? I’ve failed several times.

x-icon Thu Feb 21 01:16:58 +0000 2019


We have a critical mass of experts to talk about advancing social key recovery approaches for next weeks #RebootingWebOfTrust including new advance reading from @htcexodus https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/social-key-recovery.md & 3 more (see thread). However, would like to see more UX and social factors people.

x-icon Thu Feb 21 06:34:50 +0000 2019


Replying to @htcexodus

If you are have expertise or interest in issues of user experience of how and why people share responsibility for critical information (in this case shares of a key), or the various social attacks against those who share, I can offer scholarships to attend our design workshop.

x-icon Thu Feb 21 06:39:55 +0000 2019


Replying to @htcexodus

The other 3 advance reading topic papers on this subject are “A New Approach to Social Key Recovery” https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/social-key-recovery.md “Security Considerations of Shamir’s Secret Sharing” https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/security_shamirs.md & “Implementing threshold schemes” https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/implementing-threshold-schemes.md

x-icon Thu Feb 21 06:43:06 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @htcexodus If you are have expertise or interest in issues of user experience of how and why people share responsibility…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 06:43:31 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @htcexodus The other 3 advance reading topic papers on this subject are “A New Approach to Social Key Recovery” https://t…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 06:43:50 +0000 2019


Replying to @htcexodus

For more information on the topics emerging at our 8th #RebootingWebOfTrust design workshop in Barcelona on March 1-3rd, see the 50+ advance topic papers submitted at https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona or join us at https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Thu Feb 21 06:46:10 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @htcexodus For more information on the topics emerging at our 8th #RebootingWebOfTrust design workshop in Barcelona on Ma…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 06:46:31 +0000 2019


Replying to @veikkoeeva, @PrivacyCDN, @hackylawyER, @L__Macfarlane, @EijaWarma, @PKorpisaari and @ollipitkanen

We’d love to have more GDPR expertise! The #RebootingWebOfTrust community is investing in Europe with this event in Barcelona next week, but also planning our next design workshop to be in Northern Europe for mid-September. Join mailing list at https://www.weboftrust.info

x-icon Thu Feb 21 07:30:55 +0000 2019


RT @PrivacyCDN: My data is myself just as is my body. To commodify my data is to commodify me and I reject this form of digital serfdom. I…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 07:40:15 +0000 2019


RT @marksammiller: @zooko @NickSzabo4 @kowalskr @least_nathan @delitzer @agoric To be very explicit, once I understood Bitcoin and Ethereum…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 07:42:05 +0000 2019


Replying to @NickSzabo4, @marksammiller, @zooko, @kowalskr, @least_nathan, @delitzer and @agoric

We are working on it. This spec started at #RebootingWebOfTrust and is now moving to W3C, and is implemented in one permissioned blockchain and is definitely on my list to puzzle how to do in future versions of Bitcoin script-like #SmartSignatures: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/ocap-ld/

x-icon Thu Feb 21 07:45:09 +0000 2019


RT @JoeAndrieu: @PrivacyCDN @ScottLDavid “My data” is like “my job”, “my sister”, & “my reputation”, which aren’t entirely yours to control…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 16:22:10 +0000 2019


RT @JoeAndrieu: @PrivacyCDN @ScottLDavid IMO, individuals have a moral right to control their digital representation on precisely the same…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 16:22:14 +0000 2019


Replying to @arjunblj

The Social Animal. Against the Gods. Influence. Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive.

x-icon Thu Feb 21 16:27:23 +0000 2019


RT @caelumlabs: La semana que viene Barcelona alojará #RWOT8, un evento para repensar nuevos modelos de identidad descentralizada más respe…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 16:29:27 +0000 2019


“Our autonomy and invisibility, two defining attributes of privacy, are gone. We are being used, but we have no other option. We have nothing to hide, because there is nothing we can hide.” https://medium.com/s/story/facebooks-users-are-more-powerless-than-ever-6a67b9516faf

x-icon Thu Feb 21 16:34:05 +0000 2019


Replying to @MessariCrypto and @tippin_me

https://tippin.me/@ChristopherA

x-icon Thu Feb 21 16:38:51 +0000 2019


RT @GETJolocom: What are the 10 principles of #selfsovereignidentity? Originally drafted by @ChristopherA see how they’re applied in this c…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 16:45:12 +0000 2019


😡I am disappointed in that all these major password managers investigated had serious flaws. It will be interesting to see how quickly they respond. “each password manager fails in implementing proper secrets sanitization for various reasons” https://www.securityevaluators.com/casestudies/password-manager-hacking/

x-icon Thu Feb 21 19:05:48 +0000 2019


Replying to @SeasideCrypto

Even given this report, I still recommend password managers for regular people—it still offers significant security to not reuse passwords, and while “not running” are reasonable secure. But with high risk accounts such as those holding cryptocurrencies I’d say find alternative.

x-icon Thu Feb 21 19:13:58 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @SeasideCrypto Even given this report, I still recommend password managers for regular people—it still offers significant…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 19:14:08 +0000 2019


Replying to @SeasideCrypto

Remember “perfection is the enemy of the good”. There are many risks, many adversaries, so doing nothing is often worse than doing at least a little. My old method from ‘09 of having different password for every website using a memory trick still useful. http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2009/09/password-best-practices.html

x-icon Thu Feb 21 19:20:23 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @SeasideCrypto Remember “perfection is the enemy of the good”. There are many risks, many adversaries, so doing nothing i…

x-icon Thu Feb 21 19:25:56 +0000 2019


Absolutely. It would need me to be able to support me register more than one token (a backup I keep in safety deposit box) plus 1 usb-c, 1 usb-2, and 1-lightning iOS. https://twitter.com/dcuthbert/status/1098542638884683777

x-icon Fri Feb 22 00:05:01 +0000 2019


RT @TuurDemeester: Imo Bitcoin exchange post bankruptcy forensics like this are important to educate the public, and in the long run they h…

x-icon Fri Feb 22 02:46:26 +0000 2019


RT @stephendpalley: If you build an algorithm that does something that appears illegal, for reasons that you don’t understand, throwing you…

x-icon Fri Feb 22 02:59:39 +0000 2019


RT @MeeplesTogether: We’ve seen the first print copies of Meeples Together! Here’s authors @ChristopherA and @Appelcline plus the rest of t…

x-icon Fri Feb 22 19:54:00 +0000 2019


Yes, the systems between people, technology & society are truly complex with many paradoxical feedback loops and hidden non-linear relationships. I find the assumptions of simplicity & lack of depth of analysis in many blockchain & #dgov projects quite frustrating. https://twitter.com/VladZamfir/status/1099024557615300608

x-icon Fri Feb 22 23:51:19 +0000 2019


Replying to @realLudvigArt and @StopAndDecrypt

I remember OSI trying to creep in later in the 90s when we were working on TLS. I should have fought harder to not use ASN.1 X.509 certificates in SSL 3.0 & TLS 1.0 but they had won by that point.

x-icon Sat Feb 23 17:33:53 +0000 2019


RT @realLudvigArt: @StopAndDecrypt The TCP/IP people understood social scalability, minimalism in the base layer, and localizing decision-m…

x-icon Sat Feb 23 17:34:00 +0000 2019


RT @SwiftOnSecurity: YOU NEED TO STOP REUSING YOUR DAMN PASSWORDS BEFORE YOU CAN WORRY ABOUT LOCAL MACHINE MEMORY MANAGEMENT HYGIENE OF PAS…

x-icon Sat Feb 23 17:49:00 +0000 2019


RT @htcexodus: We would like to thank our #advisers for their commitment in building a phone dedicated for #Web3 #HTCEXODUS @ChristopherA…

x-icon Sat Feb 23 17:55:36 +0000 2019


RT @ChiefScientist: The @ChristopherA principles of identity presented by @TUBerlin partners of @tsystemscom at the @t_labs hackathon. The…

x-icon Sat Feb 23 17:55:51 +0000 2019


Replying to @_jillruth, @RussHarben and @WayneVaughan

60+ Topic papers submitted for this week’s #RebootingWebOfTrust at https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona and we’ll be collaborating to produce 6-10 whitepapers or specs to first draft at our design workshop based on some of them.

x-icon Sun Feb 24 01:55:13 +0000 2019


Replying to @wmclaxton

It isn’t just obscurity. There is something unique in the American experience that has been lost in the last few decades—the opportunity to start over & remake yourself. Today you can’t even be forgiven for deeds when you were just a kid in school, much less more serious as adult

x-icon Sun Feb 24 06:43:38 +0000 2019


I agree with @csuwildcat. As one of the inventors of DIDs it is premature to pick winners. Instead, we need to enable experimentation & cross-fertilization of results. We need to break out from POCs toward real world projects, but DID tech is too new for large scale deployment… https://twitter.com/csuwildcat/status/1099322877365563392

x-icon Sun Feb 24 20:01:41 +0000 2019


Thus I focus my efforts on a mix of interoperability issues, blockchain neutrality, along with avoiding vendor lock-in. Related is market accessibility & future proofing — there will be many new players entering this field with new ideas that we’ll want to benefit from.

x-icon Sun Feb 24 20:05:15 +0000 2019


Replying to @bharathrao, @WayneVaughan and @_jillruth

You have a point there, that sentence should probably not be at the beginning of the DID spec. We need DIDs to enable self-sovereign identity solutions, but DIDs themselves are not identity but identifiers and are broadly useful for more than self-sovereignty. cc: @manusporny

x-icon Sun Feb 24 20:09:41 +0000 2019


Replying to @bharathrao, @WayneVaughan and @_jillruth

I don’t know of any other solution besides DIDs that addresses all the feature requirements listed in the DID use cases document: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-use-cases/#features

x-icon Sun Feb 24 20:15:07 +0000 2019


Replying to @moeco_io and @GETJolocom

Working on decentralized identity at #TLabsHack? Stay in Barcelona a few more days & join us at #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!) in Barcelona on March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com. Some discount scholarships still available for implementors—contact me.

x-icon Sun Feb 24 20:22:19 +0000 2019


RT @GETJolocom: A beginner’s introduction to #selfsovereignidentity by @SelfKey covers what it means to have control over your own personal…

x-icon Sun Feb 24 20:23:04 +0000 2019


Replying to @bharathrao, @WayneVaughan and @_jillruth

If you can rotate, there is nothing that stops your technique from being a DID method. All DID methods are different. The don’t even have to use blockchain.

x-icon Sun Feb 24 23:45:03 +0000 2019


Replying to @bharathrao, @WayneVaughan and @_jillruth

The very first DIDs were all public keys, but the security issues of not being able to rotate was the major factor in adding that as a DID requirement. But you could also use a z-cash like STARK proof as a DID method.

x-icon Sun Feb 24 23:48:29 +0000 2019


Replying to @timelessdev and @csuwildcat

First they have to join the community. I’ve not seen them at either #RebootingWebOfTrust nor #W3C, where over a dozen different companies are working on interoperability & standards.

x-icon Mon Feb 25 08:25:45 +0000 2019


Replying to @amigus

There will be quite a few breaking out of POVs this year.

x-icon Mon Feb 25 08:27:02 +0000 2019


Replying to @EvaProkop, @GETJolocom and @IraNezhynska

We also are seeking more UX people who want to contribute to human-rights centric decentralized identity at next week’s #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!), also in Barcelona on March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Mon Feb 25 08:30:36 +0000 2019


Replying to @T_Labs, @crashsash and @SideShowJohn

We also are seeking more UX people who want to contribute to human-rights centric decentralized identity at next week’s #RebootingWebOfTrust (our 8th!), also in Barcelona on March 1-3 https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Mon Feb 25 08:31:48 +0000 2019


Replying to @T_Labs, @crashsash and @SideShowJohn

There is also a free meetup this Thursday in Barcelona on decentralized identity https://www.meetup.com/devcentralised/events/258696935/

x-icon Mon Feb 25 08:33:48 +0000 2019


Replying to @AranH

We are holding a free meetup on decentralized identity in Barcelona this Thursday, the last day of #mwc https://www.meetup.com/devcentralised/events/258696935/

x-icon Mon Feb 25 08:35:53 +0000 2019


Replying to @Arm

We are holding a free meetup on decentralized identity in Barcelona this Thursday, the last day of #mwc https://www.meetup.com/devcentralised/events/258696935/

x-icon Mon Feb 25 08:39:13 +0000 2019


Replying to @YiaThe

We are holding a free meetup on decentralized identity in Barcelona this Thursday, the last day of #mwc https://www.meetup.com/devcentralised/events/258696935/

x-icon Mon Feb 25 08:39:30 +0000 2019


Replying to @Tiboxx

We are holding a free meetup on human-rights centric decentralized identity in Barcelona this Thursday, the last day of #mwc https://www.meetup.com/devcentralised/events/258696935/

x-icon Mon Feb 25 08:40:26 +0000 2019


Replying to @juvo_mobile, @GSMA and @Sitoyo

We are holding a free meetup on human-rights centric decentralized identity in Barcelona this Thursday, the last day of #mwc https://www.meetup.com/devcentralised/events/258696935/

x-icon Mon Feb 25 08:40:47 +0000 2019


Interesting thought in thread on analysis of risk. I found some good ideas on how to better articulate our #SmartCustody digital risk model & adversarial analysis tools & documents we tested at last workshop and are in process of redrafting based on feedback. https://twitter.com/jillrgunter/status/1099754143575465985

x-icon Mon Feb 25 16:18:08 +0000 2019


👍Excellent set of advice & documents for entrepreneurs seeking funding, on everything from pitch decks, how to write a letter to VCs (and what not to write), metrics & kpi, how to run a board meeting, to how to take care of yourself. By @alexiskold at https://alexiskold.net/

x-icon Mon Feb 25 16:25:55 +0000 2019


Good article on the difference between a great coder and a principal developer. Accurate to my last role as Principal Architect at Blockstream. Missing from article is how to mentor a great coder to become one (& in some cases why you shouldn’t) & how to support a principal dev. https://twitter.com/eduardsi/status/1097117725003001856

x-icon Mon Feb 25 16:50:33 +0000 2019


“For this first update, we decided to include an example of invoicing, an on-chain way to fund the development of protocol proposals. During the migration, the account of the authors of a proposal can be funded by creating a certain amount of tez.…” https://medium.com/tezos/tezos-athens-379f6a0d5332

x-icon Mon Feb 25 21:58:06 +0000 2019


“…In this case, we chose a symbolic value of 100ꜩ, enough to buy a round of drinks for the devs who worked on these proposals. In the future, we hope this mechanism can be used to fund the work of new teams and help increase decentralization.” Interesting! ht/@mejoshuaphilips

x-icon Mon Feb 25 22:00:03 +0000 2019


Replying to @CryptoPietje and @matt_odell

💯agree w/quote: ”But even @philchen913, HTC’s decentralized chief offer and Exodus mastermind, acknowledges that these are the earliest days. “Right now, we’re still working on the fundamentals,” says Chen. “Making sure that it’s secure, working on the key recovery mechanism.”

x-icon Tue Feb 26 21:39:59 +0000 2019


Replying to @CryptoPietje, @matt_odell and @philchen913

There is huge value in shipping something even if it is too early for many users of cryptocurrencies. But it is raising the bar — I suspect that Samsung would not have made their announcements w/o @htcexodus. The TEE capabilities needed have been in phones for some time, unused.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 21:44:05 +0000 2019


Replying to @CryptoPietje, @matt_odell, @philchen913 and @htcexodus

I was head of Blackphone’s developer relations & dedicated secure Android Apps Store. Blackphone died due to demands from users for enterprise management which Google required adding Google Play Store. Also even with $130M+ capital & credit made them small fry. HTC has a chance.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 22:21:04 +0000 2019


RT @coindesk: JUST IN: @htc’s EXODUS 1 blockchain phone can now be bought with U.S. dollars and other fiat currencies. https://t.co/NgWW2at…

x-icon Tue Feb 26 22:24:22 +0000 2019


Replying to @CryptoPietje, @matt_odell, @philchen913 and @htcexodus

Some will be FOSS but you can’t completely FOSS when there are trusted hardware keys involved. I would love a completely FOSS Android but Google has made this impossible. Many essential Android APIs now require contract with Google. Hasn’t been truly open for some time.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 22:31:53 +0000 2019


Replying to @BrianLockhart and @matt_odell

I use at as my “warm” wallet right now.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 22:33:09 +0000 2019


Replying to @RedMane11 and @matt_odell

Depends on your risk model. Once more tested & mature HTC’s Zion wallet likely more fundamentally secure than an userspace Android bitcoin wallet. But if you a HODLer or more than dabbler, other digital asset management approaches are required. #SmartCustody teaches about this.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 22:36:22 +0000 2019


Replying to @WIRED

https://twitter.com/cryptopietje/status/1100504238608793600?s=21

x-icon Tue Feb 26 22:44:42 +0000 2019


Replying to @luipo_ and @WIRED

See thread starting https://twitter.com/cryptopietje/status/1100504238608793600?s=21

x-icon Tue Feb 26 22:46:19 +0000 2019


Replying to @CryptoPietje, @matt_odell, @philchen913 and @htcexodus

The biggest problem for Blackphone was all the enterprise management APIs require Google license. Android for play or walled garden is possible (see Kindle Fire) but when the biggest prospects are professionals that can’t use corporate mail, serious problems. …

x-icon Tue Feb 26 22:49:26 +0000 2019


Replying to @CryptoPietje, @matt_odell, @philchen913 and @htcexodus

But once Blackphone had Google Play, our secure app store called “Silent Store” was cancelled. Eventually this made the Blackphone “just another Android phone” and perpetually a year behind other phones. Not being manufacturer made value-add hardware security solutions difficult.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 22:54:25 +0000 2019


Replying to @CryptoPietje, @matt_odell, @philchen913 and @htcexodus

HTC is a major cell phone manufacturer and can offer such value-add hardware security, has significant cash & capital, and is in a country that values freedom. Thus I hope that @htcexodus is just a beginning.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 22:56:48 +0000 2019


#RebootingWebOfTrust is what is known as a ”design workshop”. No speakers, no agenda. Instead, participants signal their interests in what topics to collaborate on by sharing “advance reading topics” before the event. See 67 papers submitted for Friday! https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona

x-icon Tue Feb 26 23:08:17 +0000 2019


…goal by end of our e days is to get 10-12 collaborations to first draft, which might be white papers, specifications or proof-of-concept source code. Within a few months most will be edited and go to final and be published at https://www.weboftrust.info as incubation for others.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 23:12:34 +0000 2019


Ideas and specs incubated be #RebootingWebOfTrust have raised millions of $ of capital, won competitive government grants, and have matured into the process of becoming international standards at W3C & IETF. All starting as a 3 day collaboration.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 23:15:17 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: …goal by end of our e days is to get 10-12 collaborations to first draft, which might be white papers, specifications or…

x-icon Tue Feb 26 23:15:22 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: Ideas and specs incubated be #RebootingWebOfTrust have raised millions of $ of capital, won competitive government grants…

x-icon Tue Feb 26 23:15:25 +0000 2019


We are making an investment in building the #RebootingWebOfTrust community worldwide, with another design workshop planned for September (probably in Switzerland) and we are starting plans for hosting one in Asia in 2020. We are a US 501(c)(6) member organization & seek sponsors.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 23:19:17 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: We are making an investment in building the #RebootingWebOfTrust community worldwide, with another design workshop planne…

x-icon Tue Feb 26 23:19:24 +0000 2019


Replying to @CryptoPietje, @matt_odell, @philchen913 and @htcexodus

We are working on social key recovery ideas at this week’s #RebootingWebOfTrust—some of those participating are using secure scuttlebutt (Dark Crystal) instead of Google. https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/security_shamirs.md I’m looking at whisper (aka Signal protocol) & nascent IETF MLS. HTC will be there.

x-icon Tue Feb 26 23:58:12 +0000 2019


RT @mrinal: We tagged a new release of Ockam http://github.com/ockam-network/ockam today, which includes some new diagrams. Here’s how two devices mutual…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 00:02:20 +0000 2019


Replying to @dez_blanchfield, @limbagoa, @lyndagrindstaff, @m49D4ch3lly, @marianmerritt, @martaserafini, @maxine_bulmer, @mel_sorrentino, @rachael_falk, @RedactedFirm, @rosannakurrer, @stacyannj and @tarah

If you are interested hearing about human-rights centric decentralized identity, we are speaking at a free local Barcelona Meetup on Thursday evening: https://www.meetup.com/devcentralised/events/258696935/ day before our design workshop #RebootingWebOfTrust starts Friday https://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Wed Feb 27 00:09:07 +0000 2019


Replying to @ACTobin

Hyperledger Indy’s @drummondreed will also be speaking about decentralized identity at free meetup Thursday night https://www.meetup.com/devcentralised/events/258696935/

x-icon Wed Feb 27 00:13:32 +0000 2019


Replying to @PrivacyMatters

If you are interested hearing about human-rights centric decentralized identity, we are speaking at a free local Barcelona Meetup on Thursday evening: http://meetup.com/devcentralised… day before our design workshop #RebootingWebOfTrust starts Friday http://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Wed Feb 27 01:25:35 +0000 2019


Replying to @YiaThe

If you are interested hearing about human-rights centric decentralized identity, we are speaking at a free local Barcelona Meetup on Thursday evening: http://meetup.com/devcentralised… day before our design workshop #RebootingWebOfTrust starts Friday http://rwot8.eventbrite.com

x-icon Wed Feb 27 01:27:39 +0000 2019


Replying to @boscolochris, @windley, @Kyle_DH, @trbouma, @csuwildcat, @drummondreed and @SovrinID

The DID BTCR method is designed for censorship resistance. In fact, any old UTXO output (for instance some old dust) can be used as an initial DID. However, we are only as private as Bitcoin is, which is imperfect. Sovrin is experimenting with correlation resistance, we can’t.

x-icon Wed Feb 27 02:10:45 +0000 2019


Replying to @boscolochris, @windley, @Kyle_DH, @trbouma, @csuwildcat, @drummondreed and @SovrinID

We are hoping to get out at least a functioning POC of the BTCR method this week at #RebootingWebOfTrust. Some compromises are necessary to ship an MVP, details at: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot7-toronto/blob/master/final-documents/btcr_0_1.md

x-icon Wed Feb 27 02:13:55 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @boscolochris @windley @Kyle_DH @trbouma @csuwildcat @drummondreed @SovrinID The DID BTCR method is designed for censorsh…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 02:18:29 +0000 2019


RT @ChristopherA: @boscolochris @windley @Kyle_DH @trbouma @csuwildcat @drummondreed @SovrinID We are hoping to get out at least a function…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 02:18:32 +0000 2019


RT @ChristineBannan: This is why “ownership” is not a helpful term to use when discussing privacy. Once again, @AOC cuts through the bullsh…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 04:23:28 +0000 2019


Replying to @wmclaxton

I’m putting on some calls for those interested in #RebootingWebOfTrust in Asia in 2020. Send me some availability for first regular calls.

x-icon Wed Feb 27 10:15:20 +0000 2019


RT @least_nathan: My aim in tech is to empower the masses, especially the vulnerable & oppressed, by giving them tools to improve their age…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 10:16:20 +0000 2019


RT @PisaResearch: . @yahgwai presenting his state channel of ethmix at the 1st Cryptocurrency Implementors Workshop @ Financial Cryptograph…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 12:29:47 +0000 2019


RT @paddykcl: He is talking about BLS and how some of the problems for schnorr do not exist. But main sticking point appears to be new assu…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 12:30:32 +0000 2019


RT @paddykcl: Now he is talking about rogue key events, where an adversary can “cancel out” another key for signing. Typical assumption is…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 12:30:40 +0000 2019


RT @paddykcl: This cross input aggregation is super useful as it encourages coinjoin! If there is only a single signature per transaction,…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 12:31:27 +0000 2019


RT @pwuille: Slides for my talk “A short history of Schnorr for Bitcoin” at CIW’19: https://prezi.com/view/EaBusHyjOOe79gyoXU3I

Twitter transcript by @paddykc…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 12:39:44 +0000 2019


RT @caelumlabs: Only two days left for Rebooting the Web of Trust, Barcelona edition #RWOT8.

+80 experts from around the world will work f…

x-icon Wed Feb 27 22:19:09 +0000 2019


“The solution, to me anyway, seems almost too easy. Students should have two long classes each day for six to eight weeks. They should come to school in the morning and intensely study a single subject…When the term ends, they move on to another subject.” https://medium.com/s/story/the-insane-structure-of-high-school-762fea58fe62

x-icon Thu Feb 28 10:36:15 +0000 2019


When I was teaching for an MBA for Sustainable Systems program, I was part of team that designed a new first year. Instead 30 credit hours of typically 3 credit hour courses, it was a carefully designed sequence of a 9 credit hour course for three quarters, plus hour of coaching.

x-icon Thu Feb 28 10:41:46 +0000 2019


This meant, say for the 2nd quarter, Operations was taught same time as Marketing, which meant that an operations case study you used last week might be the starting point for a marketing case study this week. Everything was integrated. Hard on teachers though!

x-icon Thu Feb 28 10:44:25 +0000 2019


Replying to @killerstorm

I agree, but it is still possible to integrate some more. For instance math, physics & literature history have common threads if taught by eras.

x-icon Thu Feb 28 12:36:34 +0000 2019


RT @codenamedmitri: Here we go! Pre- #RebootingWebOfTrust decentralized dev meetup.

x-icon Thu Feb 28 23:14:49 +0000 2019


RT @btcassessors: As @ChristopherA and @drummondreed explained in #RebootingWebofTrust, it’s time for #DID. We’re proud of taking the first…

x-icon Thu Feb 28 23:15:59 +0000 2019


RT @CleanApp: Excited to join @ChristopherA & the #RWOT (Rebuilding Web of Trust) team in Barcelona to try to identify the biggest socio-le…

x-icon Thu Feb 28 23:16:08 +0000 2019


RT @caelumlabs: Starting another #devcentralised meetup with @ChristopherA who is introducing us the concept of self-sovereign identity and…

x-icon Thu Feb 28 23:18:21 +0000 2019


RT @caelumlabs: What is self-sovereign identity? A new way of understand the identity user and privacy-focused

Check a list of principles,…

x-icon Thu Feb 28 23:18:51 +0000 2019


RT @caelumlabs: How is, instead, the digital identity today?

Centralized and administred by governments, corporations and software platfor…

x-icon Thu Feb 28 23:19:11 +0000 2019


RT @caelumlabs: .@ChristopherA starts to explain shortly the 10 principles of self-sovereign Identity.

x-icon Thu Feb 28 23:19:30 +0000 2019


RT @caelumlabs: And, of course, the Design workshop #RebootingWebofTrust starting tomorrow in Barcelona at Espai Bital (@govern) and locall…

x-icon Thu Feb 28 23:20:00 +0000 2019


RT @ACTobin: Yesterday at #MWC19 I was asked by quite a few people to repeat what I said about the 4 checks a relying party can do to verif…

x-icon Thu Feb 28 23:22:33 +0000 2019


Replying to @pamelarosiedee and @ACTobin

In the BTCR method you spend the UTXO output associated with your founding transaction without doing a key rotation.

x-icon Thu Feb 28 23:24:38 +0000 2019


Replying to @boscolochris, @pamelarosiedee and @ACTobin

No. But there is one foundational transaction that is on chain. Like a lightning node a BTCR DID is an encoding of blockheight, transaction in block & output index in that transaction. The output index must still have unspent funds associated with it. See: https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0Bcwqiyw6RGvMZgDyFt-prI_g#BTCR

x-icon Fri Mar 01 07:09:03 +0000 2019


Replying to @boscolochris, @pamelarosiedee and @ACTobin

Information about where to find information about individual claims issued by that DID are typically stored in IPFS objects which are widely distributed—there you can discover if it is revoked. Right they are CRLs, but there are hash tree based revocation list services coming.

x-icon Fri Mar 01 07:12:30 +0000 2019

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