Musings of a Trust Architect: When Technical Standards Meet Geopolitical Reality
Reflections on recent conversations about digital identity, sovereignty, and the erosion of foundational principles Echoes from Geneva I wasn’t present at ...
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Blockchain Commons Signs No Phone Home Initiative
At Blockchain Commons, we design open infrastructure that prioritizes privacy, autonomy, and human dignity. That’s why I support and personally signed the ...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Fair Witnessing in a Decentralized World
ABSTRACT: “Fair Witnessing” is a new approach for asserting and interpreting digital claims in a way that mirrors real-world human trust: through personal...
Blockchain Commons Receives 2025 FROST Grant from Human Rights Foundation
Blockchain Commons was pleased to receive another grant this year from Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and their Bitcoin Development Fund grant to support our ...
Hackernoon: Christopher Allen Interview
“Cypherpunks wouldn’t just critique the surveillance state—they’d also call out us technologists for enabling it. We were supposed to resist, not retrofit...