My Thoughts

Level up Milady. We're playing chess not checkers these days.

A Loss Leader Software is software that is free to attract a user so that you can nudge the user towards another product or service you generate revenue on to continue to fund the development of both

Think of intelligence as knowledge that compounds over time.

a novel approach to DeFi risk management, leveraging prediction markets to dynamically hedge against hacks, smart contract failures, and other threats, enhancing protocol security and user trust.

The problem with politics is that it is a multivariate by design. Put another way, the number of problems that any group of people can care about at one time is infinite and relative. So we need a new way to model it.

Age verification laws are coupling content moderation with guardianship problems, reducing user agency because of our centralized trust architectures. By separating these concerns and leveraging client-side filtering technologies, we can create more private and decentralized solutions for protecting children online without compromising everyone's Web experience.

Self Sovereign Identity subtly introduces centralization through its chosen trust architecture. We've re-created a structure where institutional claims about subjects are more trusted which recreates the same gatekeeping mechanisms SSI was meant to eliminate.

This isn't a new problem in decentralized identity - it's been ongoing for centuries, dating back to the printing press. We keep inverting solutions and repeating historical patterns.

Fundamentally transacting on the web is limited by credit card payment systems today

We should expect that when the user shares their address that will act as implied consent for cross-origin tracking in the same way cookie notices act as a prompt for tracking.

the methods we choose to communicate with affects not only the cohesiveness of the community, but also the norms and the values reflected.

Kaliya has done a great job of honestly and fairly distilling a nuanced technical discussion about the Hyperledger SSI stack

Convergent Wisdom is utilizing the knowledge gained from studying multiple solutions that approach a similar outcome in different ways in order to choose the appropriate solution for the problem at hand.

Is it possible to fix the tragedy of the commons problem with a DAO Governance Token?

First off, the user experience of authenticating on the web has to be joyful first and foremost. Secondly, I think it's important that we recognize that the security of any authentication system is probabilistic, not deterministic.

Verifiable Credentials are well suited for provenanced statements. ZCAP-LD is great for distributed authorization systems.

I'll cover an example design which relies upon verifiable credentials for an authorization system and the tradeoffs faced.

Here's 3 ways you can utilize VCs and DIDs to enable delegation and attenuated delegation for more complex scenarios.

Privacy is made possible when all actions appear to be random.

I want to see a world where people can use technology privately each and everyday

Technologies should adapt to the people rather than users adapting to their technologies.

An experiment on testing free will

Lets use blockchain smart contracts to act as a trusted database administrator and log management system.

If we can build a system that has guarantees of identity verifiability and immutability than how do we quantify trust?

it's important that organizations like ID2020 host these events to bring key stakeholders together to share experiences and form coalitions

Economic equilibrium means that cryptocurrency has tangible value to all involved parties therefore increasing the demand and flow of the tokens.

It seems like every other week there is a new data breach in the news.