Christopher Allen
Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Architect—Internet Cryptography Pioneer—Co-author TLS Security Standard—Collaborative Tools & Patterns
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The death of individuality: What really governs your actions?
‘Big data’ studies of human behaviour reveal that we don't act like free-thinking individuals at all says MIT's Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland
Christopher Allen
“Without privacy, the power of corporations or government to manipulate our behaviour becomes virtually unlimited.” — @alexpentland in @newscientist issue 2 April 2014 also
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Hive minds: Time to drop the fiction of individuality
The idea that we are freethinking individuals has shaped Western society – but the data shows that group thinking rules, says "social physicist" Alex Pentland
Christopher Allen
From @newscientist in 2014: “It is time that we dropped the fiction of individuals as the unit of rationality, and recognised that our rationality is largely determined by the surrounding social fabric.” … 1/3
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Release Initial release · BlockchainCommons/GordianSigner-macOS
A simple and purely offline tool for saving encrypted bip39 mnemonics and signing psbt's.
Testnet only as this is the first ever release and meant for testing purposes.
Supports BIP174 .psbt files,...
Release General improvements and fixes · BlockchainCommons/GordianServer-macOS
This is the first tagged release. It includes a number of fixes and improvements over previous versions.
bug fixes around pruning settings
no longer support manual pruning
prune to 1gb by default
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Good Research: Weathering a privacy storm
Good Research provides research services including experience research, qualitative and quantitative research services
Data as Property? | Salomé Viljoen
On the problems of propertarian and dignitarian approaches to data governance.
Christopher Allen
👍“The second type of reforms, which I call dignitarian, take a further step beyond asserting rights to data-as-property, and resist data’s commodification altogether, drawing on a framework of civil and human rights to advocate for increased protections.”
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How Will Bitcoin Lead to More Freedom?
The 1987 debate that foreshadowed the divide in today's cryptocurrency community
Whitepaper - Circles Handbook
Circles handbook for users, communities and developers
Transitions
Stepping down as CEO of CircleUp, the best job I ever had — at the company I helped to create — was difficult & confusing. Here is my…
Mind the Bitcoin Address Gap
A guide to preventing and resolving Bitcoin address gap limit edge cases.
An Atomic Pivot: Going all-in on Bitcoin-native finance.
Leaving the ETH DeFi Jenga tower to build Bitcoin-native finance — beginning with Atomic Odds. Built using DLC's.
2020 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report
Q3 Blockchain Commons Report In summer 2020 (Q3), Blockchain Commons really came together as both a professional organization and as a collective to support open infrastructure for blockchain. This quarter, in addition to the ongoing financial...
Official Code of Georgia Annotated now a Github Repo | Boing Boing
Our favorite rogue archivist Carl Malamud says: I’m writing to you today with good news! We’ve transformed the Official Code of Georgia Annotated into beautiful HTML and put it on a git…
BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line
The best way to learn to learn deeply about bitcoin is to avoid GUIs (even bitcoin-qt), and instead learn it from the command line. - BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line
Christopher Allen
Chapter 17 barrels through interacting with Bitcoin’s RPC in six different languages: Go, Java, NodeJS, Python, Rust, Swift. github.com/BlockchainComm… [8/10]
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BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line
The best way to learn to learn deeply about bitcoin is to avoid GUIs (even bitcoin-qt), and instead learn it from the command line. - BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line
Christopher Allen
Chapter 16 talks about how to use C with the Libwally library, enabling lots of low-level wallet work. github.com/BlockchainComm… [7/10]
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BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line
The best way to learn to learn deeply about bitcoin is to avoid GUIs (even bitcoin-qt), and instead learn it from the command line. - BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line
Christopher Allen
Chapter 15 focuses on C, showing how to integrate with both RPC and ZMQ. github.com/BlockchainComm… [6/10]
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