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Founder/CEO Digital Bazaar; payments, identity & blockchain. Kickstarted Web Payments, Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, and JSON-LD at W3C.

Blacksburg, VA
Joined February 2009
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Manu Sporny
6 years
Wow, the W3C Web Assembly Working Group rechartering vote is going on right now at W3C and it doesn't have nearly enough votes to pass with a week left in the balloting process. More here on the situation: https://t.co/PzOWS2L0UO #w3c #wasm #web
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Wow, the W3C Web Assembly Working Group rechartering vote is going on right now at W3C and it doesn't have nearly enough votes to pass with a week left in the balloting process. This is critical...
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6 years
US Customs and Border Protection launches second blockchain Proof of Concept dealing with Intellectual Property Rights... project enters live testing phase: https://t.co/1X04tvEii8 #blockchain #identity #poc #supplychain
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cointelegraph.com
A branch of U.S. Customs and Border Protection will test blockchain-based shipping for licensed shipping partners
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6 years
Digital Bazaar announces a collaboration with GS1 US, SecureKey, TradeLens, and 20 other organizations to implement a blockchain solution that leverages global standards for organizational identity proofing and vetting. https://t.co/caNtg5ig4H #blockchain #identity
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/PRNewswire/ -- Digital Bazaar (https://digitalbazaar.com/) recently announced a collaboration with GS1 US, SecureKey, TradeLens, and 20 other organizations to...
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6 years
Credentials CG discusses W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group proposal approved!!!: https://t.co/g8WKyM30rj #w3c #ccg
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Manu Sporny
7 years
New book on Self-Sovereign Identity is out now by @heathervescent @IdentityWoman and many others: https://t.co/cSTlb1YaFC Pre-order yours today, totally worth the read!
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7 years
Call for articles/papers is out for a special edition of IEEE Standards Magazine on Decentralized Identity: https://t.co/RASlyLv5H7 #ssi
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Manu Sporny
7 years
Finally! An approachable podcast for the rest of us about Object Capabilities, an exciting type of security architecture that solves many of the issues we have today, starring @kate_sills and @dustyweb: https://t.co/tUgwOUoTEV
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@ChristopherA
Christopher Allen
7 years
#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://t.co/luojm25JLG. We also want to be in EU in September! Join & help us!
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@manusporny
Manu Sporny
7 years
Enjoying Better Worlds: 10 original stories by a diverse roster of science fiction authors who take a more optimistic view of what lies ahead:
theverge.com
Can you create a better world if you don’t first imagine it?
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@ryanchenkie
Ryan Chenkie
7 years
Wanted! 10x rockstar developer 🔥 Responsibilities include: * Merging PRs immediately * Making new features on demand * Fixing bugs right now Compensation: * Stars * +1's * Threats, general and specific * Public shaming Apply at OSS Inc today
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7 years
Silicon Valley Innovation Program's latest call for startups is out - lots of Decentralized Identifier, Verifiable Credential, JSON-LD stuff in there: https://t.co/WeJR4gxuv3 #w3c #identity #tech
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Manu Sporny
7 years
It's Thursday, remember that your friends love you: https://t.co/AnfK91PFIx #love #harder
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Manu Sporny
7 years
Forbes article on one of our stealth collaborations with the co-founders of the Illinois Blockchain Initiative and the launch of their new venture -- Attest:
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Manu Sporny
7 years
Want an in-depth backgrounder on Decentralized Identifiers (soon to be proposed as a global standards Working Group) -- here ya go:
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Manu Sporny
7 years
Webinar today (in 3 hours!) on Decentralized Identifiers and the push towards international standardization at W3C w/ @drummondreed and @manusporny : https://t.co/R9rNGBc0na #w3c #tpac2018 #said #ssi #identity
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Manu Sporny
7 years
Western Digital's latest high capacity hard drive line is called "Surveillance" and features an ominous camera recording your every move. Reality is funny:
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Manu Sporny
7 years
Business of Blockchain Identity happening in 30 minutes (free 4 hour Webinar) --
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Manu Sporny
7 years
Grinning as I read https://t.co/SdDc9Nzb4Z ... there are few pleasures in life greater than getting really smart people (@dckc, @dustyweb, @codenamedmitri, @agropper) together, not knowing what's going to happen, but being sure that it's going to be good when it does. #RWoT
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Manu Sporny
7 years
Veres One announces Board of Governors and Advisory Council - consisting of luminaries that built the Internet and the Web into what it is today:
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