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

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

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

Credentials CG discusses W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group proposal approved!!!: https://t.co/g8WKyM30rj #w3c #ccg

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!

Call for articles/papers is out for a special edition of IEEE Standards Magazine on Decentralized Identity: https://t.co/RASlyLv5H7 #ssi

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

#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!

Enjoying Better Worlds: 10 original stories by a diverse roster of science fiction authors who take a more optimistic view of what lies ahead:

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

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

It's Thursday, remember that your friends love you: https://t.co/AnfK91PFIx #love #harder

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:

Want an in-depth backgrounder on Decentralized Identifiers (soon to be proposed as a global standards Working Group) -- here ya go:

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

I'm going to "Rebooting the Web of Trust VII - Fall 2018 - Toronto, ON, CA". See you there? https://t.co/q8vXHKYQ96 via @Eventbrite

Western Digital's latest high capacity hard drive line is called "Surveillance" and features an ominous camera recording your every move. Reality is funny:

Business of Blockchain Identity happening in 30 minutes (free 4 hour Webinar) --

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

Veres One announces Board of Governors and Advisory Council - consisting of luminaries that built the Internet and the Web into what it is today: