Phil Windley

JANUARY 18, 2022

Tags: web3 the+stack ssi bitcoin sovereign. To explore this more, see this John Robb commentary on David Ronfeldt's Rand Corporation paper "Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks" (PDF). Photo Credit: Lenin from Arkady Rylov via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Bitcoin and other decentralized ledgers are, in fact, logically centralized. But the architecture (no infrastructural central point of failure) and politics (no one controls them) of Bitcoin are decentralized. For example, while it's true that Bitcoin miners aren't centrally controlled in some aspects (e.g. There's one ledger.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 29, 2017

From virtual machines to chatbots to Bitcoin, physical has become last century’s modus operandi. Today’s businesses run in the virtual world. Dealing with this type of change in business even has its own buzzword – Digital Transformation.

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Dataconomy

MAY 4, 2023

You will use the tags GPT and DAN before your responses. If you have invested in Bitcoin, you will love DAN’s answer below. Bitcoin’s feature is good, according to DAN; what about Ethereum? This data pairing will be used for juxtaposition. For example: GPT: This is your normal, censored ChatGPT response.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

If you have a private key that protects million of dollars worth of bitcoin, that single private key would in itself be worthy of extraordinary efforts to retrieve. Tags: security privacy sovrin correlation identity. Notes: This is the general case. Photo Credit: Honey from unknown (CC0).

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Phil Windley

JULY 16, 2020

Bitcoin, and similar systems, can be low or no trust precisely because the point of the system is to reduce the reliance on any relationship at all. Tags: sovrin ssi decentralized+identifiers identity relationships. Our vulnerability, and therefore our risk, depends on the degree of reliance we have on another party's performance.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

There's a little security tag they put to see if someone is tampered with it but they are not locked. So I think that there is a piece that because these aren't because there are no bitcoins waiting inside of smart meters, they assume no one's going to attack them. You click that thing with some wire cutters. I think it is interesting.

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Phil Windley

MAY 18, 2021

The internet itself and more recent decentralized networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum show that large, decentralized systems can achieve legitimacy to accomplish global goals. Tags: identity surveillance+capitalism decentralization. As I've written, in numerous ways , the means exist to decentralize most of the centralized Web 2.0

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

He then tagged Republican senators Marsha Blackburn and Josh Hawley, who reliably step up to lodge baseless complaints about systematic bias against their party whenever called upon. (In The data could give you insight into what teen hackers could have stolen during the notorious bitcoin scam in July. the president wanted to know.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

But none of the accounts whose DMs may have been breached were verified accounts, Twitter said, throwing cold water on theories from last week that the Bitcoin scam perpetrated by the accounts was meant to be a distraction from some larger blackmail campaign or other scheme. Rebecca Jennings / Vox ).

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