Replying to @delitzer and @IDEOVC
Congrats! I look forward to hear what/where you are headed toward. If there is any alignment with Blockchain Commons work on open infrastructure or #RebootingWebOfTrust work on decentralized identity, I’d love to collaborate again!
Replying to @dustyweb
This is exactly correct. And I’ve regularly shared about it as an example of how sometimes there are hidden small thing that can bring people together. Microsoft had a long laundry list of tech concerns with SSL 3 but it was the name change that they needed. Netscape didn’t care.
RT @FullyNoded: @btcede @GordianWallet @BlockchainComns and @ChristopherA have a grand master plan that is all coming together and its wort…
Replying to @dustyweb
Exactly! And it often isn’t what you think it is, even for yourself. I’ll bet that changing the name was not on Microsoft’s “list”, but once we were able to identify it as a problem and made it go away, they felt more comfortable about together addressing other issues.
RT @ChristopherA: @dustyweb This is exactly correct. And I’ve regularly shared about it as an example of how sometimes there are hidden sma…
RT @AlexanderAbdo: The last case I argued at the ACLU just got decided—nearly 4 years later. It was a while in the making, but it’s an impo…
Though I think Apple/Google Bluetooth contact tracing was well intentioned & superior to other COVID-19 location privacy approaches, I was also confident that it wasn’t nearly good enough. This is only the tip of an iceberg, as I suspect other layers will also leak privacy. https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1301481700057329664
“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP” — @TheRealNimoy’s last Tweet in 2015 & the last AIM message in 2017.
Poignant not just for those events but this era.
#qotd /ht @nayafia https://justanman.org/posts/the-last-message-sent-on-aim/
RT @JeremyRubin:
RT @FullyNoded: The best Bitcoin dev you may never have heard of is @WolfMcNally ! Major thanks to him and @ChristopherA @BlockchainComns f…
RT @RobertSpigler: One of the most comprehensive risk analyses I’ve ever seen. Love it! I too (when it comes to bitcoin storage) prefer t…
Replying to @RobertSpigler
We are working on #SmartCustody v2 — seeking patronage: https://tinyletter.com/SmartCustody/letters/june-tweetstorms-on-smartcustody-adversaries-1-on-1-advice-supporting-smart-custody-book-v2
Replying to @RobertSpigler
See also mega tween storm, with a #SmartCustody adversary per day, starting at: https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1267560481855639553
“Inclusive Privacy” — I’d not heard the phrase before, so was curious: “design novel end-user privacy/security mechanisms for people with disabilities (e.g., visual impairments)”. Like Queer Privacy that @SarahJamieLewis advocates for, it seems worthy.👍 https://inclusiveprivacy.org/postdoc_2020.html
👍I’ve been reading with interest the new IETF RFC 8890 “The Internet is for End Users”. A Principle: “IAB believes that, when there is a conflict between the interests of end users of the Internet and other parties, IETF decisions should favor end users.” https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8890
This has long been my stance going far further back than my first presentation on this topic in 2016 at the UN on topic of Self-Sovereign Identity: “When these needs conflict, we err to preserve the freedom and rights of the individual over the needs of the group.”
IAB (Internet Architecture Board) member Mark Nottingham @mnot offers more context in this blog post (and my #qotd):
“(This) is a call for IETF participants to stop pretending that they can ignore the non-technical consequences of their decisions” https://www.mnot.net/blog/2020/08/28/for_the_users
I follow a number of alternative currency & non-western finance people, in particular in the third world, as I believe there are insights to be learned from them that serve peers rather than whales. I found this thread (& sub-threads) on changes in P2P mpesa lending interesting. https://twitter.com/pesa_africa/status/1303288132985589760
RT @ChristopherA: This is one of my greatest concerns when working with standards organizations like IETF, W3C, Oasis, ISO, etc. The big co…
Connecting the dots: An article from Reuters in use of Bitcoin in Africa: “they seek methods of purchasing goods from overseas without having to buy dollars.“ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-africa-insight-idUSKBN25Z0Q8
RT @ChristopherA: Connecting the dots: An article from Reuters in use of Bitcoin in Africa: “they seek methods of purchasing goods from ove…
RT @GordianWallet: Major announcement! Did you know you can use Gordian-Wallet as a macOS app!??
You can test it out by downloading the dm…
RT @trbouma: “Self-sovereign identity might sound like an abstract concept, but in essence all it means is that an individual controls thei…
RT @trbouma: “To function as advertised, a self-sovereign identity system requires a digital infrastructure that is scalable, distributed,…
“Democracy relies on an informed and engaged public responding in rational ways to the real-life facts and challenges before us. But a growing number of Americans are untethered from that.” 🤨 https://twitter.com/realchriswilson/status/1304157786704670720
While at @Blockstream I strongly supported our defensive patent strategy (please credit @mindspillage for this hard work) but I wanted to do even more. @BlockchainComns is also exploring how to do more on this, but to date has been too small to have made much progress. cc: @jack https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1304089601372545025
Replying to @dgwbirch
I do believe that we can have social media, but not in it’s current form, and in particular it’s massive scale and extremes of power laws. I do support self-sovereign & web-of-trust filtering & amplification of knowledge, but not the centralized power of social media today.
Replying to @dgwbirch
I know that past initiatives to decentralize social media have largely failed, mostly due to the inordinate power laws of centralized social media. But maybe we can now.
RT @mindspillage: @ChristopherA @Blockstream @BlockchainComns @jack Thanks for the shoutout! I’m still happy with what Blockstream did (htt…
I’m pleased to see that @Blockstream has extended their defense patent strategy to COPA, the Cryptocurrency Patent Alliance started by @sqcrypto. It was the next step I always wanted while there, but it was very hard to start with only one company committed. 👍 https://twitter.com/Blockstream/status/1304529416131940352
RT @Blockstream: The Blockstream Research team recently discovered an interaction between different timelocks that can’t be used together i…
We still have some openings for our @BlockchainComns fall virtual internship program. You don’t have to be based in North America — interns last summer ranged from Australia & Malaysia to Slovenia & Spain. You may need to be a bit flexible on hours to take full advantage though. https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1298687112208818176
RT @javiervargas: Running @FullyNoded and @GordianWallet on mainnet. 😎 https://t.co/QZbJ8gCeYl
RT @benthecarman: Since Schnorr has been merged into Bitcoin’s cryptography library @pwuille has opened a PR to update the library to the l…
Replying to @lopp
We’ve been working on & are close to an interoperable standard for animated QRs for bitcoin multisig wallets for things like PSBTs. I think our current max in the demo is about 10 kB. We’ll look into what the reasonable upper limits are. But a .4 mb PSBT? https://youtu.be/t-GGZ9FyuT8
RT @BitcoinMerges: Merged PR from Pieter Wuille: Update secp256k1 subtree (including BIP340 support) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19944
I’ve been reading about the very serious replication problem in social science papers for over a year, but this really quantifies how bad. As it includes economics & social psychology that we base some of our underlying incentive system designs on, some redesign may be required. https://twitter.com/AlvaroDeMenard/status/1304399437641461760
Replying to @lopp
I’ve brought up this topic specifically about the animated QR Airgapped Signing side of the problem at https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/AirgappedSigning/discussions/15. Next step is to get some good valid large PSBT test cases for @GordianWallet and others to test against. @GordiaWallet wants to ship this feature soon.
RT @SpotBit: Spotbit is running on a dedicated server!
http://h6zwwkcivy2hjys6xpinlnz2f74dsmvltzsd4xb42vinhlcaoe7fdeqd.onion
This address will have much better uptime, and also is runni…
RT @ChristopherA: @lopp I’ve brought up this topic specifically about the animated QR Airgapped Signing side of the problem at https://t.co…
RT @henkvancann: At @BCcoalitionNL conference chairman @rvangijzel pointed out that In the United States, commercial platforms manage our…
Replying to @lopp and @GordianWallet
So @WolfMcNally tried out a 500kb fragment via our new (still alpha, soon beta) animated QR standard, and for a true-airgapped wallet scenario was a bit slow (24m) but at least worked. Next step (not this week) is testing signing a PSBT that large. https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/AirgappedSigning/discussions/15#discussioncomment-78977
Replying to @lopp, @GordianWallet and @WolfMcNally
The key thing that our initial scenario has a non-networked device talking to a networked device. But if both are have some form of audio, bluetooth, or network, we can do an ephemeral server (say using Tor if on a network) and only have the QR do the initial DH key agreement.
Replying to @csuwildcat, @alebaffa and @gendal
My answer is to learn from how this works in the real world. You hear about a great restaurant from someone whose opinion about restaurants you’ve agreed with in past. You accumulate information from other peers who you have various amounts of trust with. Start with a small tx.
Replying to @csuwildcat, @alebaffa and @gendal
The point is your trust model is different than my trust model, and I shouldn’t be forced into who I trust like browser & CAs do. I may decide that I trust you or that the risk of trusting you is small. I may defer to my smart uncle, a friend, or a company. But I choose.
RT @ChristopherA: @lopp @GordianWallet So @WolfMcNally tried out a 500kb fragment via our new (still alpha, soon beta) animated QR standard…
RT @mydiacc: We’re proud to announce the launch of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF), a set of digital ID and authentication industry…
RT @amizi: If you’ve ever wondered how changes get made to Bitcoin, this post is for you!
And with fun natural examples of decentralized…
An excellent thread on the complexity of forest management, in particular in the West Coast. My long-time friend & colleague @GiffordPinchot founded @PinchotEDU and is the grandson of the founder of the US @ForestService. I’ve heard these stories & warnings from him for decades. https://twitter.com/ErinEARoss/status/1305303927936544770
We enjoyed this twist on the @mattleacock’s game design style for a more “regional” Pandemic game. In this case study we discuss both the improved both the innovations and yet new simplicity of the cooperative game design in the new “Pandemic Iberia”. https://twitter.com/MeeplesTogether/status/1306289218532945920
Once again, a cooperative table-top board game design is the winner of the prestigious “Kennerspiel des Jahres 2020” (aka connoisseur game of the year). This new emerging game form is part of why @Appelcline & I wrote @MeeplesTogether. And there is a lot of unexplored space! https://twitter.com/SpieldesJahres/status/1285137030993907713
“Jury statement: “Die Crew” is a co-operative trick-taking game…but the appeal doesn’t stop with this unique selling point. Hardly any other game before it has encapsulated the special charm of trick-taking games so well.” https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/en/the-winners-2020/
RT @amyjokim: Here’s another sign that #Cooperative play is on the rise - so much blue-ocean opportunity in this genre #gamethinking #game…
RT @BobMcElrath: @kanzure has performed a valuable service by transcribing Bitcoin talks. Unfortunately his commitments don’t allow him to…
This actually would have been helpful to @GordianWallet as we constantly have to work around that the full node wants to use its default wallet and behaves differently about it. Now if we can only delete wallets via RPC. https://twitter.com/achow101/status/1306752509256622082
RT @GordianWallet: Please try installing #CLightning with one easy click using GordianServer!
This is for testing purposes only but seems…
Replying to @JustinMoon, @Fonta1n3, @achow101 and @GordianWallet
Your full node has key material in wallet files that either can violate your privacy (watch-only wallets) or spend your funds (single-signature wallets). You may have a remote node that only wish to either watch or be able to spend for a short time, then delete it.
Replying to @JustinMoon, @Fonta1n3, @achow101 and @GordianWallet
The objections have been “use SSH to delete the file” but then I have to have SSH keys on remote, or “an attacker could delete your wallet” but if they have access to your node with the wallet on it you’ve already lost (and there is RPC blacklisting possible now in 0.20).
Replying to @JustinMoon, @Fonta1n3, @achow101 and @GordianWallet
Thus I’d like to have the option to delete wallet material from inside bitcoin-core using RPC. You really see this with GordianServer, where there can be a lot of old watch-only wallets hanging around that should to be deleted. This is a consequence of the new multisig world.
Replying to @JustinMoon, @Fonta1n3, @achow101 and @GordianWallet
As far as “delete watch-only ok, but not wallets with private keys”: that bitcoind wallet file better not be your only copy of the private key! You should be able to delete it, especially if is used in a multisig scenario where it is needed only temporarily as it is offline.
This is why we in the #SmartCustody book don’t recommend that you use BIP38 passphrases. Even if you ignore the technical problems with it, you are just bumping the problem of how to be resilient against attack down the line. https://twitter.com/Adelgary/status/1307053611856392195
Free #SmartCustody PDF v1.01 2019-09-16: http://bit.ly/SmartCustodyBookV101
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Replying to @RussHarben
Nope. BIP38 describes the additional 13th or 25th word, which can can be arbitrary. It has caused some large losses of bitcoin as it is not well designed (for instance no checksum so you don’t know if you got it right). BIP39 mnemonics spec is not perfect, but workable.
RT @vindaRd: Aaaand now that password manager generator setting is gonna slide up to 24 characters 🧐
(@ChristopherA’s #SmartCustody book)…
RT @SpotBit: The easiest way to see spotbit in action is to try out @GordianWallet
How much is your BTC worth? If you use Gordian Wallet a…
Twenty years ago today I launched Castle Marrach to the public, my first multiplayer online game design. Unique in offering a #Bartle “socializer-dominant” interactive fiction experience, and a hybrid text & web interactive environment, it was novel for its time. [1/15]
I had founded Skotos in 1999 with a goal of creating “multiplayer interactive fiction on the Internet”. We wanted to make games that were more social, more dynamic, more interactive, more “real”, and in particular more story-focused than anything that had been seen before. [2/15]
I also become interested in experimenting with cross-media, and produced two comic books based on our games, Castle Marrach: Awakenings http://awakenings.marrach.com and Lovecraft Country: Return to Arkham http://www.lovecraftcountry.com. [3/15]
And, we continued to launch games. Many of our earliest were strategy games that were focused on building a gaming community, such as Galactic Emperor: Hegemony, Droidarena, Space Federation, and early Days of Wonder games. However, these games were just the appetizer. [6/15]
We brought in expert designers from the RPG field, hired Brian Moriarty, a legend of the interactive-fiction community, made connections with existing roleplaying publishers, and published columns by masters in the field such as Richard Bartle and Jessica Mulligan. [5/15]
In the couple of years that followed, we surged forward with all of the excitement and enthusiasm of a dot-com company at the turn of the century. As with any endeavor, some projects fell by the wayside, and others prospered. [4/15]
We are closing the Skotos the company & website, but in doing so we are also releasing our games to the world. Four of Skotos’ past games have been running independently for a few months now. We invite you to visit them, and become a part of their stories. [11/15]
We’ve now reached the twentieth anniversary of Skotos, and it’s a time of change — and just as we’ve long promised in Castle Marrach, we hope this marks a New Spring. [10/15]
Today, they’ve been telling stories for twenty years since the release of our games, the creativity and continuity of these communities has mainly been thanks to the players. Witnessing hundreds of works of art & written stories has been inspiring: https://www.deviantart.com/skotos-art/gallery/24444027/castle-marrach [9/15]
Skotos never grew as big as our initial dreams. The communities never exceeded a few hundred people each. But those communities were vibrant and exciting, and they told the stories that we’d always dreamed of, even if we never learned to scale them massively. [8/15]
Roleplaying and storytelling games were always the main course. The Eternal City was our second roleplaying game, created by Worlds Apart. In the years that followed we launched Grendel’s Revenge, Lovecraft Country, Ironclaw Online, and The Lazarus Project. [7/15]
Long live SkotOS games and communities! Long live new eOS experiments! And thank you for 20 years of support of my dream of collaborative interactive storytelling! [15/15]
I’m proud of my stewardship of these communities & pleased that I can offer them them continuity. Though Skotos as company is closing, I plan to continue to be involved in the open source side, both in supporting the old SkotOS codebase, and investigating a next generation eOS.
We’ve also spent much of this year releasing our Chat Theatre technology as open source, so that you can create games or other experiments (a #jitsi mud chat?) of your own to add to the list above. Source at https://github.com/ChatTheatre & live demo at https://www.ChatTheatre.com. [13/15]
Castle Marrach (https://www.marrach.com), The Eternal City (https://www.eternalcitygame.com/), Allegory of Empires (https://allegoryofempires.com/), and
Multiverse Revelations (http://www.multirev.net/). Finally, we’ll be maintaining an archives of our popular articles and history. [12/15]
(If you were a player, fellow employee, or game developer inspired by Skotos, I encourage you to add a story of how we inspired you to the thread here).
RT @FullyNoded: @JWWeatherman_ @achow101 @moneymanolis For starters users should never be encouraged to back up individual private keys……
Please to hear that @kallewoof’s Signet has successfully passed the bitcoin-core gauntlet! It will make testing bitcoin wallets much easier. In particular I’m wanting to simulate block forks and other rare scenarios with @GordianWallet. https://twitter.com/theinstagibbs/status/1308143633602936837
RT @buchmanster: We’re experimenting with more democratic corporate structures. Check out our initial iteration and some background researc…
I’m very interested in these different experiments in the corporate form. They are not alone in thinking that we can achieve a greater participatory corporation governance and equity without falling into incentive traps. https://twitter.com/buchmanster/status/1308100262792491010
RT @RebeccaRachmany: DAOs Will Never Govern the World (at This Pace) https://www.coindesk.com/daos-govern-world-pace via @coindesk
👍“DAOs…(are for) areas where everyone’s interest is at stake and therefore everyone should have a say. People are seeking new forms of organization in areas where hierarchical organizations are failing: public health, climate change, preservation of cultures, inequality, etc.” https://twitter.com/RebeccaRachmany/status/1308293346960392193
Replying to @evanwolf
I’ve been collecting open source and public domain documents and links on these topics in https://GitHub.com/ParticipatoryOrgs. I’d love more have contributing content or curation.
Replying to @evanwolf
I’ve been working with Wyoming legislators in a subcommittee on these DAO topics, but we have a ways to go. Some are worried about examples of misuse, where I share others. Next public meeting of the full committee is tomorrow morning. https://wyoleg.gov/Committees/2020/S19 /cc:@RebeccaRachmany
Replying to @aalexis1234
See https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1308500334654889984
At the foundation of cryptocurrency are your cryptographic seeds, @BlockchainComns now has a command-line #cli tool to exercise our shared reference C & C++ libraries to create seeds, create mnemonics (BIP39), shard them (sskr), share them with QRs & more: https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/bc-seedtool-cli https://twitter.com/gorazdko/status/1308477046012751872
Replying to @mayazi
Hierarchy is not absolutely bad. But in the most effective collaborative corporations there are many hierarchies, which should not be the same. Decisions about use of equity, technology, hiring, policies, product strategy, etc. all should be able to have different hierarchies.
These code libraries & standards for seeds, shards, BIP39, sskr (Shamir Secret Key Recovery), derived child keys, and more, as well animated QR code standards to share them are being implemented in multiple bitcoin wallets, and discussions are in https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/AirgappedSigning
Replying to @anotherday____ and @mayazi
I’ve not seen a good word. I have quite a collection of books & other offline resources this area, plus shared online resources in a GitHub repo. Lots of other names, but often hidden hierarchies. For instance Sociocracy & Holocracy have “circles” with hidden hierarchies in them.
I’m participating in the Wyoming “Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology” sessions this morning on topics of Digital Identity, KYC/AML, and DAOs. Morning live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2yMs_I5Sn0 https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1308778558114856961
RT @BlockchainComns: Version 0.8.1 of Seedtool, our #cli app for creating & transforming cryptographic seeds, led by @WolfMcNally, is now…
RT @BlockchainComns: This version compiles on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It also exercises a number of libraries and technologies we’ve bee…
RT @BlockchainComns: We plan on adding these features to LetheKit https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/bc-lethekit (led by @ksedgwic with @gorazdko) and to @Gordian…
Replying to @RebeccaRachmany and @CoinDesk
Grace, I quoted your article and offered its link in my testimony today as a member of the DAO subcommitee of the Wyoming “Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology”. Video should be up later today at: https://youtu.be/o2yMs_I5Sn0
“With this internship coming to a close, Allen is offering another one that will begin in October and end in December.” Applications deadline is next Monday. Apply at https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Community/issues/17
Some coverage about the end of this summer’s cohort of @BlockchainComns interns, by @AsILayHodling of @CoinDesk “what may be considered the internship’s core ethos: Ask plenty of questions and cooperate with others whenever possible.”… https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1308831915156402178
“He stressed that the latest internship hopes to pull in more talent from Bitcoin-adjacent fields, not just the realm of computer science. This could mean students studying law, library science or other disciplines to help improve aspects of Blockchain Commons’ documentation.”
RT @ChristopherA: “With this internship coming to a close, Allen is offering another one that will begin in October and end in December.” A…
RT @ChristopherA: “He stressed that the latest internship hopes to pull in more talent from Bitcoin-adjacent fields, not just the realm of…
RT @Appelcline: I worked with some of Blockchain Commons’ interns. They offered great support for the Learning Bitcoin course I’ve been dev…
RT @Appelcline: One of the most interesting points for me in today’s article on the Blockchain Commons interns was the discussion of “cross…
RT @Appelcline: And the author’s right, it’s certainly all interconnected. That’s the beauty of releasing open-source software to create op…
RT @Appelcline: It’s what we’ve been doing for years at Rebooting the Web of Trust. We’ve now got five years worth of collaborative ideas f…
RT @Appelcline: Of course, cooperation is of major interest for me. It’s what Chris & wrote about in Meeples Together. It’s what I’ve bee…
RT @Appelcline: The creativity of a collective whole is greater than the creativity of its individual members.
(As long as you have a stru…
In the morning session I shared about establishing a legal template for DAOs using Wyoming LLCs, but the real interesting discussions for me was on a legal definition for Digital Identity & Self-Sovereign Identity #SSI that started at the 2h39m mark: https://youtu.be/o2yMs_I5Sn0
RT @ChristopherA: In the morning session I shared about establishing a legal template for DAOs using Wyoming LLCs, but the real interesting…
RT @jodobear: It was a wonderful experience in FOSS development, one that didn’t have and was finding difficult to get a hang on. @Christop…
Replying to @IdentityWoman, @trbouma, @dazzagreenwood, @ScottLDavid, @CaitlinLong_ and @hackylawyER
Missing from @trbouma’s list of identity experts that are are part of the identity subcommittee’s efforts and spoke today was Prof. Clare Sullivan, “Digital Identity” book author, Fulbright scholar, now at Georgetown. We invited @hackylawyER but she declined.
Replying to @IdentityWoman, @trbouma, @dazzagreenwood, @ScottLDavid, @CaitlinLong_ and @hackylawyER
There is still time to get @hackylawyER’s input into the proposed legislation, either through public comment at next meeting in early November, or via her former colleague @dazzagreenwood, or directly to co-chair of @rothfuss.
RT @trbouma: Some stellar work on #digitalidentity legal definitions by @dazzagreenwood @ChristopherA @ScottLDavid for #Wyoming with @Caitl…
RT @trbouma: Recommended read on @Medium: “Blockchain is the Least Interesting Thing About Self-sovereign Identity” https://ift.tt/2S6GVxP
This might be something that @BlockchainComns could offer as a public service like we do @spotbit (where we offer our own tor price server but also easy standup of one of your own). May be a good intern project. Will puzzle the privacy issues & economics. /cc @wtogami @Fonta1n3 https://twitter.com/wtogami/status/1309009065616510979
Replying to @VinayTaylor and @resilience_me
There is both some old history here with sdsi/spki pet names and more recent use by HyperLedger Indy of pair-wise Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs).
Replying to @michaelfolkson
We at @BlockchainComns don’t offer as deep a dive into bitcoin-core that @ChaincodeLabs does, but we do some things they don’t, like a better intro to USING bitcoin-core in our cli course. We also have internships & soon externships: https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1308849596421074951
Replying to @michaelfolkson, @BlockchainComns and @ChaincodeLabs
One thing @ChaincodeLabs has that we don’t is better funding that is more of an endowment, whereas our funding is largely Patrons paying monthly.
Replying to @michaelfolkson, @BlockchainComns and @ChaincodeLabs
Our summer internship program was quite international — only one in US—the rest were Slovenia, Spain & Australia. We had others that didn’t finish from Malaysia & Canada.
Replying to @michaelfolkson, @BlockchainComns and @ChaincodeLabs
I hope our next cohort of interns are even more diverse (deadline has been extended to Monday) https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Community/issues/17
Replying to @michaelfolkson, @BlockchainComns and @ChaincodeLabs
We also have had an inquiry about externships, where a company would “loan” us some staff for three months, to do bitcoin related open source for us, but to also learn the culture and bring it back to their companies. Exploring this out now.
RT @ChristopherA: @michaelfolkson We at @BlockchainComns don’t offer as deep a dive into bitcoin-core that @ChaincodeLabs does, but we do s…
Replying to @michaelfolkson and @herminghaus
There are many forms of diversity other than gender & race. Geographic, culture, class of origin, handicapped, ex-con, neurodiversity, skill base, and more. https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1308849598878937088
RT @SpotBit: Wow, a great article! Thanks to @ChristopherA and everyone on the intern team, this has been a great summer!
RT @start9labs: Bitcoin 0.20.1 on the Embassy now offers the quick connect QR code for [even] easier integration with @FullyNoded wallet!…
QuickConnect also works with @GordianWallet https://twitter.com/start9labs/status/1309260006638772224
Monday is the deadline for the fall internship program at @BlockchainComns — it is a great opportunity to have an intro to supporting open infrastructure for blockchain, bitcoin, security & privacy. We will likely offer another cohort in January. https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Community/issues/17
More details on this last summer’s internship program, which we are repeating in Q4. It is open not only for devs, but people with other skills who want to enter this field, including pre-law, library science, writing, etc. We are also open to corporate “externships”. https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1308849596421074951
RT @ChristopherA: More details on this last summer’s internship program, which we are repeating in Q4. It is open not only for devs, but pe…
Replying to @VinayTaylor, @resilience_me and @w3c
The topic of various proof of personhood and other anti-Sybil mechanisms have come up repeatedly in the @w3c_ccg and at @RWoTEvents. One group at last Prague have draft ““Not a Sybil!”: Exploring the Path to Non-Dystopian Approaches to Digital Personhood” https://docs.google.com/document/d/16lYoDT_Mr0_c45Fm-PIl0eQ13bl0cPglz7Pc7nWQFOg/edit
Replying to @VinayTaylor, @resilience_me, @w3c, @w3c_ccg and @RWoTEvents
Another similar paper is “Who Watches the Watchmen? A Review of Subjective Approaches for Sybil-resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols” https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05300
Replying to @bjdweck and @zndtoshi
I encourage you to look at the libraries behind, and features of https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/bc-seedtool-cli. Much of these standards are also currently also being LetheKit. In particular, we’d love to see more people support UR encoding of seeds.
Replying to @VinayTaylor, @resilience_me, @w3c, @w3c_ccg and @RWoTEvents
I had @bford as guest to talk about his proposal in @w3c_ccg meeting last year: slides, transcript and audio recording at https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings/2018-08-07/
Replying to @VinayTaylor, @resilience_me, @w3c, @w3c_ccg, @RWoTEvents and @bford
/cc @aleezagroks — any other important efforts I’m missing since you last draft (January) of the paper you are leading from @RWoTEvents Prague? Any update on moving that paper to final?
Replying to @bjdweck and @zndtoshi
Currently @gorazdko is working on adding sskr (aka Shamir secret key recovery) to #LetheKit. As I understand it, the only requirement to make ShowMyWork is the option to enter -1 words to BIP39 and have the software complete and display the lowest possible checksum?
“The privacy recommendations in the W3C and mDL specs must be treated as a floor and not a ceiling. We implore the digital identity community and technologists to consider the risks to privacy and social equity.”… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/digital-identification-must-be-designed-privacy-and-equity-10
RT @GordianWallet: 1/ Did you know Gordian Wallet includes the ability to recover account’s and add signers with Shamir Shards!?
Check out…
RT @GordianWallet: 2/ Lots of building blocks have been developed by @BlockchainComns to make this possible!
RT @GordianWallet: 3/ SSKR - Shamir Secret Key Recovery
Which is roundtrip compatible with your BIP39 mnemonic seeds.
Unlike SLIP0039 whi…
RT @GordianWallet: 4/ UR - Uniform Resource QR codes!
A high quality standard for encoding all types of data into QR codes. Developing a w…
RT @GordianWallet: 5/ If you would like to try it out yourself there is an example of a 2/3 and 3/5 here: https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Research/blob/master/papers/bcr-2020-011-sskr.md
Or you c…
RT @GordianWallet: Did you know the latest release of Gordian Wallet utilizes @BlockchainComns Lifehash (based on Conways Game of Life) to…
Replying to @urza_cc and @GordianWallet
Unfortunately, the Trezor team decided to not convert the binary master seed into keys the way that BIP-39 does. Thus the same master seed on your Trezor will generate completely different accounts if you use SLIP-39. They have a rationale, but we don’t accept breaking BIP-39.
“companies that seek to change the world should be more open to being complex entities that reflect the diverse views of numerous stakeholders, including employees, and not just a narrow reflection of a single founder’s vision.” Agreed! 👍 https://twitter.com/jasonsomensatto/status/1310758436980875264
Replying to @CasaHODL
If you are using single-keys don’t use BIP-38 passwords. You’ve just moved to challenge of securing and making your digital assets more resilient to another spot, rather than addressing the points of failure at their root. Definitely don’t use with multisig.
Replying to @nvk, @FullyNoded and @SpecterWallet
Have you taken a look at @GordianWallet wallet yet? It is designed to be more user friendly, whereas @FullyNoded is more for power userS. But both have the same server<-tor->remote architecture. https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Gordian
“So if you think you have designed a permissionless…system that is cleverly secured based on rationality assumptions, you haven’t. You have merely obfuscated the rational attacker’s motive and opportunity to profit outside your system from breaking your rationality assumptions.” https://twitter.com/brynosaurus/status/1311405398847610888
…“The only practical way to eliminate this threat appears to be either to close the system…(identity & enforcement)…or else secure the system against arbitrary Byzantine behavior, thereby rendering rationality assumptions redundant and useless for security.”
RT @rmhrisk: A new modality of biometrics await.