
Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
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Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Architect—Internet Cryptography Pioneer—Co-author TLS & DID Standards—Collaborative Tools & Patterns
Lafayette, CA
Joined January 2007
The 2024 annual report from @BlockchainComns is here! It highlights our work toward an open, secure, and compassionate digital infrastructure, emphasizing interoperability and self-sovereign wallet standards through key projects: dCBOR, FROST, and Gordian Envelope. 🧵… [1/11]
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RT @btcpolicyorg: "Identity is the foundation - our 'layer zero' - for participating in modern life. Yet in the United States, our relation….
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And of course you can always support @blockchaincomns itself by becoming a financial patron, to help us fight for our principles. [13/13]
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Blockchain Commons is a "not-for-profit" social benefit corporation committed to open source , advocating for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infra...
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Join me at the @blockchaincomns Gordian Developer Meetings, propose a topic where we can hash out these issues. [12/13]
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Blockchain Commons supports the creation of open & interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure.
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I talk about all of this and more in my newest Musings . but this isn't just Musings. We need solutions. We need action. And we need it now. [10/13]
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Reflections on recent conversations about digital identity, sovereignty, and the erosion of foundational principles Echoes from Geneva I wasn’t present at the Global Digital Collaboration conference...
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As for eIDAS and EUDI, I've written about their shortcomings before. [7/13]
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This article, like “Echoes from History: Designing Self-Sovereign Identity with Care”, is drawn from a book I have in process called FOREMEMBRANCE, which chronicles how identity was abused in WWII...
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Reports have been coming back from the Global Digital Collaboration conference (GDC25), and they're pretty discouraging for those of us in the decentralized tech community. I wrote about a lot of the problems today. [1/13]
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Reflections on recent conversations about digital identity, sovereignty, and the erosion of foundational principles Echoes from Geneva I wasn’t present at the Global Digital Collaboration conference...
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“…the difference between the countries is stark: in the Netherlands, 75% of Jews tragically lost their lives, compared to 23% in France. The difference lies in how each country dealt with identity: what they were willing to record and what they were not.”
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This article was originally published as an advance reading for RWOT12 in Köln, Germany on August 9, 2023. It has been slightly edited for this reprint....
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RT @btcpolicyorg: FEATURED VIDEO: @HRF Chief Strategy Officer @gladstein presents "Bitcoin is the Most Powerful Human Rights Technology of….
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RT @zachherbert: Why Ledger is really killing the Nano S. Ledger had announced back in 2022 that they were phasing out the Nano S, and has….
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