Phil Windley

AUGUST 3, 2021

While Vinay talks of blockchains and smart contracts, I work on picos. Tags: ssiot iot picos. Things are members of communities and ecosystems , working through programmable agents. A world of smart things is decentralized–it has to be. I primarily use it as a personal inventory system. Photo Credit: Spimes Not Things.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 9, 2018

Late last year CryptoKitties burst into the blockchain world. If you were around in the 90's when the Web was taking off, think Beanie Babies meets Blockchain and you'll get the idea. Except it's a little more interesting than Beanie Babies ever were because each CryptoKittie is really a non-fungible token on the Ethreum blockchain.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 16, 2018

Secondly, public blockchains can provide decentralized registration and discovery of the public keys needed to verify digital signatures. Tags: sovrin identity whitepaper verifiable+claims sovrin+token. There is still no way to use digital credentials to prove our online identity the same way we do in the offline world.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 25, 2018

The event in Zug is the TC Sessions: Blockchain 2018 event on July 6th. Tags: identity sovrin india. The first half of July I'm going to be on the road speaking about self-sovereign identity in Switzerland and at two events in India. I'll be speaking on self-sovereign identity in an afternoon session.

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Vox

JUNE 8, 2022

Tag line: “Don’t miss out on crypto.”. Here we should note that crypto bulls take pains to distinguish between blockchain, the technology based on a worldwide network of computers that talk to each other and record transactions, and cryptocurrencies, the assets often generated by that tech. And now the crash: Something like $1.5

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In contrast, because NFTs are created using a smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain, we think of them as decentralized. Blockchains and NFTs can inspire confidence in systems that would otherwise be too costly or untrustworthy otherwise. Tags: verifiable+credentials non+fungible+token ssi identity picos. But, not so fast.

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I'm using "ledger" as a generic term for any algorithmically controlled distributed consensus-based datastore including public blockchains, private blockchains, distributed file systems, and others. Tags: decentralized+identifiers didcomm protocol ssi identity credentials self-sovereign vrm me2b.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Others in the blockchain space might wonder why Sovrin spends so much time, energy, and money complying with regulations. Tags: sovrin identity governance gdpr privacy i4a. Sovrin Ledger Contractural Roles (click to enlarge). It's not just about various actors in the system being risk averse.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 18, 2017

DIDs are used with blockchain-based resolution to create decentralized systems. Tags: picos dids identity cryptograph sovrin. From a given pico's perspective, it has an inbound channel to receive messages (the Rx channel) and an outbound channel to transmit messages (the Tx channel).

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

I'm using "ledger" as a generic term for any algorithmically controlled distributed consensus-based datastore including public blockchains, private blockchains, distributed file systems, and others. Tags: aries indy ssi autonomic algorithmic decentralized+identifiers credentials identity vrm me2b.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Note that in all of this blockchains and other decentralizing technologies are just implementation strategies, not end results. Tags: web3 ssi identity keri decentralized+identifiers. This is in contrast to Web 2.0 Goodbye client-server. Web3, built in this way, allows people to act as full-fledged participants in the digital realm.

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Phil Windley

JULY 8, 2017

This is in contrast to permissionless ledgers like Bitcoin's blockchain that rely on validators who are not identified. Tags: sovrin trust+framework trust web+of+trust. Sovrin is a permissioned ledger, meaning it achieves consensus using a known set of validators—in this case, trusted institutions around the world.

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Phil Windley

JULY 14, 2018

In his one-on-one at the event, Vitalik Buterin said “Ultimately, if self sovereign user authentication technology ends up totally failing, that means that it is very difficult for the blockchain space to achieve substantial mass adoption.” Tags: byu sovrin india identity aadhaar.

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Phil Windley

JULY 5, 2022

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a few other blockchains have proven that they can last for more than a decade despite challenges, changing expectations, and dramatic architectural transitions. Tags: decentralization legitimacy coherence. I love the experimentation in decentralized system design that they represent. Schumaker (Public Domain).

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Vamosi: So the different currencies -- Bitcoin, Ethereum -- are different softwares built on top of a concept known as a blockchain. To do so would change its hash and since every new hash builds on the previous hashes, that would break the blockchain. Vranken: Well, the blockchain aspect makes everything immutable.

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 17, 2022

Step 4: Edit the title, author, tags, and other metadata fields, then select OK. 7 Benefits of Using Blockchain Technology in Publishing. Step 1: Choose the PDF file you wish to convert. Step 2: Select the PDF file, then select Convert books. Step 3: Select the Output format drop-down menu and choose ePUB. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Blockchain. photo credit: PeteLinforth via pixabay cc Experts predict blockchain will transform everything from digital currency to voting processes to entire economies. According to a recent survey from Gartner, only 1% of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption and only 8% planned to experiment with it.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Because a blockchain like Ethereum is decentralized and allows for anonymity, it is difficult to track down scammers who use anonymous wallets, and victims have few avenues for recourse. “It On the other hand, the blockchain is transparent: every transaction can be tracked, whether or not the destination is anonymous.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Blockchain systems are no different. But these protocols are not emergent properties of the blockchain, rather they are designed by humans who write the code and agreed to by the humans who execute it. Without the design and agreement of humans, the blockchain does not function. The Sovrin blockchain is a good example.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Blockchain systems are no different. But these protocols are not emergent properties of the blockchain, rather they are designed by humans who write the code and agreed to by the humans who execute it. Without the design and agreement of humans, the blockchain does not function. The Sovrin blockchain is a good example.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I'm using "ledger" as a generic term for any algorithmically controlled distributed consensus-based datastore including public blockchains, private blockchains, distributed file systems, and others. Tags: identity identifiers relationships ssi root+of+trust namespaces architecture trust. Of course, it's not just algorithms.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For example, the registry could be a distributed ledger or blockchain. Photo Credit: Data flowing over networks from DALL-e Tags: ssi identity decentralization And the term registry brings to mind a database of some kind. Why these are certainly possibilities, I think it's also possible to imagine more decentralized solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Cloud continues to dominate Cloud migrations are still happening , with 22% of CIO survey respondents tagging that as a top spending priority. Meanwhile, cost savings generated by cloud and automation will see more spending diverted towards new technologies” such as AI, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, and blockchain, IDC says.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Because of this architecture, Sovrin is difficult to categorize in the various discussions of permissioned and permissionless blockchain systems. One common refrain is "blockchains don't need trust (governance) frameworks." Another goes "the point of blockchain is to avoid governance." You can see this topic has been on my mind.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

And I’m not talking about services that can quote remove your buddy’s Instagram photos where you are tagged doing something Not Safe For Work. And well it's not impossible to decipher where those transactions on the blockchain came from. This is cryptocurrency laundering. And there are some services out there.

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Phil Windley

JULY 1, 2019

but the question is really about the Steward model that Sovrin uses to perform validation on the blockchain. Tags: sovrin identity self-sovereign. Governance and Stewards. Susan labels her next question "This Governance Thing?" She says: I can see the positive aspect of [Stewards].

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The Verge

APRIL 10, 2021

After seven generations, the works will stop reproducing (so it will not be a total ecological nightmare , like the rest of the blockchain). Honestly, this is the ultimate NFT sale, and it deserves a $69 million price tag.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

So getting cybersecurity education materials often comes with a price tag. We had somebody doing some research on how to connect blockchain, in this space. This type of content just doesn't exist, even if you go through AP Computer Science, which is an amazing course, they don't really tackle cyber security.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Different methods can support their own way of performing resolution using a specific blockchain or other storage system. Tags: sovrin identity decentralized+identifiers decentralization. Discovery is performed in the manner outlined in the DID method. The DID specification outlines the necessary operations any method must implement.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

One of the great advantages of blockchain-based systems is not just that they're architecturally decentralized for resilience, but politically decentralized for diffuse control. Tags: decentralization sovrin identity distributed+systems resilience permissioned+ledger. Photo Credit: Adler from Klappe (CC0).

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Phil Windley

MARCH 13, 2020

Unlike many other blockchain-based identity systems, using the Sovrin Network does not require storing personal identifying information, encrypted or otherwise, on the ledger. Tags: sovrin identity credentials. The Hyperledger Indy distributed ledger architecture provides this important property. Layer Two: The Agent-to-Agent Protocol.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You needed one to get in, and the blockchain is purportedly so impregnable that people are using it to unlock their apartment doors. Then I heard back from H, a former philosophy major who now works for a blockchain company. He said H could go in his place, and I could tag along as his plus-one. What the f**k? Holy s**t.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2021

The most overhyped technology of 2021: I guess three of the technologies that are always mentioned on these “most overhyped” lists are blockchain, virtual reality, and self-driving cars. Blockchain and VR are getting a lot of new hype, with blockchain mentioned in areas like vaccine credentials, and VR to make home isolation more fun.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 24, 2021

The current work in blockchains and interest in decentralization gives me hope that we'll design more systems that use decentralized methods to achieve their ends. Tags: decentralization biology. Life succeeds because it's terrifically decentralized. I find that miraculous.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 7, 2020

In a blog post on recent revisions to the Sovrin Governance Framework , I wrote: Others in the blockchain space might wonder why Sovrin spends so much time, energy, and money complying with regulations. Tags: sovrin identity sovrin+foundation. Governance. It's not just about various actors in the system being risk averse.

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