Christopher Allen
Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Architect—Internet Cryptography Pioneer— Co-author TLS Security Standard—Collaborative Tools & Patterns
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CivicScience | Infographic: A Cashless Society
Take a look at opinions of U.S. adults when it comes to how cashless payment options and stores are becoming more prevalent.
The fight to regulate dangerous design is heating up
A new regulatory proposal in the U.K. lays out how online services should be designed to protect kids. Everyone should get the same kinds of protections.
JJia/Master-Lecture-Slides
Repository of lecture notes developed since 2012; taught at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Presidio Graduate School, George Washington University and other academic institutions. - JJia/Master-Lect...
Christopher Allen
My fellow teacher @jimmyYji in the MBA Sustainable Systems I used to teach at, has opened sourced his master slides and notes for his Sustainable Energy & Strategy classes. A lot of useful info on building businesses in this field
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From Neolithic Privacy to Smart City Privacy
What can we learn about the origins of smart city privacy from what privacy meant in Neolithic cities? For one, privacy seems to be an intrinsic human need.
WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona
RWOT8 in Barcelona, Spain (March 2019). Contribute to WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona development by creating an account on GitHub.
Christopher Allen
Our 2nd white paper from #RebootingWebOfTrust VIII in Barcelona is final "How will SSI Will Survive Capitalism" led by @agropper with @michaelxshea & @rado0x54: "We apply the SWOT framework to identify potential paths to adoption"
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The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over
Here’s what that means for VCs and entrepreneurs.
Christopher Allen
“In short, the “move fast and break things” era is over. “Minimum viable products” must be replaced by “minimum virtuous products”—new offerings that test for the effect on stakeholders and build in guards against potential harms.”
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The perks of patronage
I started a newsletter a few years ago. I added it as an afterthought to one of my blog posts, with the message: “Sign up here to get updates when I post something new”. That blog post happened to blow up, so I found myself with a solid audience...
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
Blockchains, and specifically smart contracts, have promised to create fair
and transparent trading ecosystems.
Unfortunately, we show that this promise has not been met. We document and
quantify the widespread and rising deployment of arbitrage...
Amazon exec tells employees that Go stores will accept cash to address 'discrimination' concerns
Amazon is planning to add new payment methods, including cash, at its cashierless Amazon Go stores to serve the unbanked.
This is why we can’t have nice things
Recently, a friend of ours at the Haas School of Business asked us to review a case study he was preparing to analyze the poor level of profits that handset makers suffer. As we worked through the …
Berkeley High student tried to rig his own election, exposing flaw in district's cybersecurity
The candidate, who was running for student body president, broke into his classmates' email accounts and cast 500 votes for himself.
WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona
RWOT8 in Barcelona, Spain (March 2019). Contribute to WebOfTrustInfo/rwot8-barcelona development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Christopher Allen
The Decentralized Identifier (DID) specification was incubated at #RebootingWebOfTrust, but now has moved on to the #W3C. However, the opportunity to meet F2F is still very useful. Here is the report out on refinements to the DID spec from our last event
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CAC – A Trio of Effectiveness
I’ve been drawing variations on this diagram a lot lately. These are what I think are the core components of an effective team1. These aren’t revolutionary ideas, but they’re the ones I’ve really z…
Team Study: Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig is another co-op related game that released just as we were Kickstarting Meeples Together. It’s a sequel to Between Two Cities with many of the same mec…
SSSS instead of seed cutting · Issue #2 · BlockchainCommons/SmartCustodyWhitePapers
Context In the chapter on Redundant Metal Devices you suggest to cut up the mnemonic in three parts, each containing two thirds of the mnemonic words. Problem with current approach Don't roll y...
Christopher Allen
Some conversation on the "Redundant Metal Devices" part of our 1st #SmartCustody white paper on Simple-Custody Cold Storage Procedures. Is 80 bits good enough security for the next 5 or 10 years? When will Shamir Secret Sharing be more mature? See issue #2
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Self-Sovereign Identity Principle #10: Protection
The final core guiding principle of Christopher Allen’s Ten Principles is protection. What Allen essentially means is that the rights of…