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Increasing access to blockchain and ledger databases

All Things Distributed

They've created a way to connect small farms in developing nations to banks and distributers of goods, like seeds, fertilizer, and tools. Traditionally, rural farms have been ignored by the financial world, because they don't normally have the information required to open an account or apply for credit.

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Authentic Digital Relationships

Phil Windley

Our online relationships with ecommerce companies, social media providers, banks, and others are cold and impersonal, but also relatively efficient. The protocols and code that enable the metasystem are open source and available for review and improvement. Supporting Authentic Relationships.

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There’s a better way to protect yourself from hackers and identity thieves

Vox

Authenticator apps like Google Authenticator might seem intimidating, but they’re easy to use and safer than texts. If you’re using texts for two-factor authentication, it’s time to change to an app. And you always use two-factor authentication, or 2FA. How to choose and use an authenticator app.

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Scott Lowe

Networking. Dinesh Dutt of Cumulus Networks writes about the effect of switch port count in Clos topologies. This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Good stuff here!

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The Sovrin SSI Stack

Phil Windley

Summary: The Sovrin Identity Metasystem is based on a sophisticated stack of protocols, implemented in open-source code, backed and supported by hundreds of organizations, large and small, around the world. The Sovrin Network is a metasystem for building identity systems. This makes the network resistant to censorship.

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Decentralization in Sovrin

Phil Windley

The remainder of this post is going to focus on the decentralized nature of the Sovrin Network. As a hybrid system, the Sovrin Network benefits both from having a blockchain-based ledger and from having formal governance. The Sovrin Network. The governance of the Sovrin Network should also be open.

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The Laws of Identity

Phil Windley

The Internet was a network of machines and all the identity in Internet protocols is designed to identify machines and services. Rather, Sovrin is a set of protocols and a network that allows multiple identity providers to provide identity credentials to anyone for any purpose. This is an excellent description of Sovrin.

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