2024 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report
Blockchain Commons is a not-for-profit organization that advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure, and compassionate digital infrastructur...
Blockchain Commons is a not-for-profit organization that advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure, and compassionate digital infrastructur...
In the first quarter of 2024, Blockchain Commons continued its work on specifications, updated some of its references, and did new research on constrained ...
Welcome to Blockchain Commons’ yearly report on our status and projects.
Blockchain Commons work in the third quarter included: Specifiations: IETF dCBOR Gordian Envelope Gordian Envelope Attachments Gordian Envelope...
2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...
2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...
2022 might have been Blockchain Commons’ strongest year ever. Though we laid down much of our foundational architecture a few years ago, we returned this y...
It’s been another busy quarter at Blockchain Commons, with a focus on new foundations, created in coordination with our community. Major Works Firm Found...
This quarter Blockchain Commons had one of its biggest events ever, the Silicon Salon, but there was lots more going on: Major Works Growing the Communit...
In Q1, Blockchain Commons achieved a variety of milestones, from the maturation of our community to the development of Smart Custody v2.0, from the release o...
Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...
Q3, 2021 saw Blockchain Commons projects that spanned the spectrum from our first security review through continued reference releases, new translations, a...
It was another busy quarter for Blockchain Commons, with a focus on work on our Gordian reference apps, which demonstrate our architectural models and spec...
In Q1 2021, Blockchain Commons largely focused on working with companies to integrate our Gordian architecture, best practices, specifications, reference l...
In Fall 2020, Blockchain Commons continued to work on creating architectures, specifications, and applications to support blockchain infrastructure. This ha...
In summer 2020 (Q3), Blockchain Commons really came together as both a professional organization and as a collective to support open infrastructure for block...
This is the meant to be the beginning of a discussion on the topic of Open Development as a growth beyond Open Source. It outlines how we think about ...
This article, like “Echoes from History: Designing Self-Sovereign Identity with Care”, is drawn from a book I have in process called FOREMEMBRANCE, which c...
This article was originally published as an advance reading for RWOT12 in Köln, Germany on August 9, 2023. It has been slightly edited for this reprint. ...
On November 8, 2023, Blockchain Commons held its first Round Table on FROST. The results have been published at our FROST developer pages. The meeting inclu...
ABSTRACT: Self-Sovereign Computing is a transformative paradigm designed to empower individuals to take command of their digital journey and to uphold t...
Or: How to Stay Heart Healthy, but Not Become the New Fitbit Murderer Many of us have heard of the Fitbit murder case: a husband killed his wife and then ...
And How to Resolve them Using Holder-Based Hashed Elision Digital credentials are the next step in credentialing because they’re quite simply a better way...
UPDATE 2023-02-16: This bill has passed the Wyoming Assembly 41-13, a day after the Wyoming Senate passed it by a vote of 31-0. If Wyoming Governor Mark Gord...
This summer, we’ve been iterating through an article intended to talk about the success that Blockchain Commons has had working with the Wyoming legislature ...
The goal of social key recovery is for the user to specify groups of individuals that together possess the ability to recover the root secret of a wallet. A ...
Since the mid-1990s, I’ve been advocating for the creation of secure digital infrastructures that protect human rights, civil liberties, and human dignity on...
ABSTRACT: Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) is an alternative to the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach, emphasizing the importance of a robust, scalab...
ABSTRACT: Schnorr signatures have been a long time coming, but now that they’re finally here, they open up broad new cryptographic frontiers, including th...
ABSTRACT: The principles of least privilege and least authority are core computer security principles that can minimize attacks. Not only can they be exte...
ABSTRACT: The idea of Self-Sovereign Identity emerged in 2016, but it has inspirations dating back centuries. This article explores the historic evolution...
ABSTRACT: Drawing inspiration from Ken Thompson’s seminal work, Reflections on Trusting Trust, there are deep-rooted challenges in establishing trust in c...
ABSTRACT: Cryptographic agility was once seen as a desirable goal for computer security, but increasingly problems such as high costs, bad interactions, a...
I have been struggling for a while to communicate my framing of definitions for Data Minimization and Selective Disclosure, which are privacy-focused data-pr...
A New Approach to Building Trust in Decentralized Systems by Christopher Allen Musings of a Trust Architect is a series of articles by Life with Alacrity a...
Musings of a Trust Architect is a series of articles by Life with Alacrity author and Blockchain Commons founder Christopher Allen that lays out some of the ...
Today, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced a Bitcoin Development Fund grant to Blockchain Common for its continued support of the development of FROS...
Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...
Congratulations to W3C on the ratification of DID v1.0 as a W3C standard! Though Blockchain Commons has only lightly touched upon DIDs to date, they nonet...
To fulfill its commitment to open source and to a defensive patent strategy, Blockchain Commons has joined COPA, the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance. ...
If you’ll be at IETF 117, we hope you’ll join us for dCBOR discussions there on Monday July 24th. The CBOR meeting will be 17:30-18:30 July 24th (Session IV)...
Congratulations to W3C on the ratification of DID v1.0 as a W3C standard! Though Blockchain Commons has only lightly touched upon DIDs to date, they nonet...
Wolf McNally’s LifeHash is one of Blockchain Commons’ interoperable specifications intended to make digital infrastructure open, interoperable, secure, and...
The Uniform Resources specification is one of Blockchain Commons’ most notable wallet enhancements of 2020: it enables airgapped PSBTs and is supported throu...
Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...
Gordian Envelopes can be used to store and transmit information in a structured, privacy preserving way. By what does that mean? Following are examples of fo...
Gordian Envelope is a specification for the achitecture of a “smart document”. It supports the secure, reliable, and deterministic storage and transmission...
In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...
Blockchain Commons has released Gordian Seed Tool, a new iOS app that allows for the creation, storage, backup, and transformation of cryptographic seeds i...
The state of California recently announced their Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record system. It allows Californians to access a digital copy of their vaccine rec...
Blockchain Commons has released a feature-complete version of LetheKit, a do-it-yourself hardware platform that allows you to conduct cryptographic operation...
The Silicon Salon is Back for the New Year! Sign Up Now at Eventbrite Blockchain Commons will be facilitating Silicon Salon 3 in mid-January, tentatively...
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our second Silicon Salon, this one focused on Secure Boot, Supply-Chain Security, and Firmware Upgrades. Courtesy of s...
What if semiconductor manufacturers made chips especially intended for crypto-wallets? That’s the topic of Blockchain Commons’ first Silicon Salon, which w...
Blockchain Commons has recently released v2.0 of our Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line course. Visit the Course Support the Course Learning Bit...
Our first #SmartCustody workshop will be on Tue, January 29, 2019, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PST, at 554 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94040-1217, Map. You can s...
Building on Libbitcoin Today we are announcing the availability of the open source Bitcoin framework for iOS. We have been working with veteran iOS develope...
Blockchain Commons has been accepted into the new GitHub discussion program, allowing for more freeform discussions within the context of our GitHub repos. A...
To fulfill its commitment to open source and to a defensive patent strategy, Blockchain Commons has joined COPA, the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance. ...
For Foremembrance Day 2024, Christopher Allen gave a Twitter Livestream discussing the tragedy of overidentification in The Netherlands in WWII, how France o...