The W3C Decentralized Identifiers v1.0 spec has reached the PR (Proposed Recommendation) stage, the last before becoming an international standard. If your company or org is a W3C member, please ask your AC rep to read the spec & use cases, and vote yes. https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9179
RT @EFF: EFF opposes an amendment to the cryptocurrency provision of the infrastructure bill by Sens. Warner & Portman. It fails to protect…
Scary: ”what is the type of belief through which we can signal that we belong?…it should be a belief that other people are not likely to have, because if everyone has this belief, then it’s not a very good signal of group loyalty.” 🤷🏻♂️ https://www.salon.com/2021/08/08/a-terrifying-new-theory-fake-news-and-conspiracy-theories-as-an-evolutionary-strategy/
RT @IanCSU: Check out @BlockchainComns, the guest speakers have all been amazing, @ChristopherA is a wonderful mentor, and my cohort of pee…
RT @ChristopherA: I agree, though I have a strong preference for cryptographic smart contract architectures (such as UTXO) over computation…
RT @EFF: Canada’s proposed online censorship proposal may be the worst yet in a growing pile of bad regimes. The potential harms are vast,…
RT @jeiting: Ok y’all. The politicians are making laws about apps and it’s …. interesting.
I just finished reading the Open App Markets…
RT @samanthamess8: Just wrote an open letter to Senator Warren about Bitcoin https://medium.com/@samanthamessing/why-progressives-should-love-bitcoin-an-open-letter-to-senator-elizabeth-warren-176ab5cc9229
Last weekend, Steve Perrin, a luminary of #TTRPGs, passed away. I worked with him as a staffer at @DunDraCon & he contributed to one of my early game designs. Always welcoming! If you rolled a d100 for success in a skill, that was one of his many innovations. He will be missed. https://twitter.com/Appelcline/status/1427481208456290305
I particularly like this tribute to Steve Perrin by one of my favorite authors, @seananmcguire: https://twitter.com/seananmcguire/status/1426558298157850637
RT @seananmcguire: Just read the @tordotcom obituary for Steve Perrin, and now I’m having Big Feelings about how other people get to tell o…
Another tribute to Steve Perrin, this one from author George R. R. Martin: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2021/08/15/farewell-to-an-ace
RT @PrivacyMatters: “We understand that the Taliban is now likely to have access to various biometric databases and equipment in Afghanista…
RT @JacobBoers: In case @ChristopherA wasn’t clear, this is why we need self-sovereign identity systems! Digital privacy doesn’t matter u…
Puzzling through if NFTs can be used to help fund trustless self-sovereign identity efforts, and open infrastructure tools & services. First experiment: https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/23329406590917769582697114686361498707644446075778430145570703785160683290625/
I’ll try an auction tonight when the gas fees are lower, with the auction scheduled to end next week.
If you are an artist that wants to support my efforts toward trustless forms of Self-Sovereign Identity (aka #SSI), we welcome a donation of original artwork to try out this experimental funding method for open development.
The auction has started on “Self-Sovereign Identity: Bits of Anonymous #1” with an opening bid of 1 WETH. All funds to support the development of trust-minimized tools for #SSI. https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/23329406590917769582697114686361498707644446075778430145570703785160683290625
My favorite quote from reply in the thread on this “Bribe DAO Votes” project — ”we aren’t removing corruption from the system, we’re just putting it on a public ledger for everyone to see”🤦🏻♂️(but to be honest also interesting🕵🏻♂️🔎).
ht/@VinayVasanji https://twitter.com/AndreCronjeTech/status/1430548487062671367
RT @ChristopherA: The auction has started on “Self-Sovereign Identity: Bits of Anonymous #1” with an opening bid of 1 WETH. All funds to su…
RT @trentmc0: @ChristopherA This is cool:)
A Q for you, or others: is anyone using non-transferable NFTs as an implementation of Verifiab…
Replying to @NZN
Really a mistake due to name collision. Link? I’ll see if I can correct.
Replying to @NZN
I know the original article in coindesk has it wrong, but have I used it wrong since?
12 hours before close of this NFT auction with artwork created by me, funds from which will support self-sovereign identify projects at Blockchain Commons. We have have two bids so far! Current high bid is 1.1 ETH. https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/23329406590917769582697114686361498707644446075778430145570703785160683290625
RT @ChristopherA: 12 hours before close of this NFT auction with artwork created by me, funds from which will support self-sovereign identi…