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Gordian Architecture

Deterministic CBOR Goes to IETF

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)...

Protecting Your Wellness Data with Hashed Elision

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 ...

The Dangers of Digital Credentials in Education

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...

Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview

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...

Why CBOR?

Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...

Gordian Envelope Use Cases Overview

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...

An Introduction to Gordian Envelopes

Gordian Envelope is a specification for the achitecture of a “smart document”. It supports the secure, reliable, and deterministic storage and transmission...

2022 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

2022 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview

Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...

2021 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Gordian Seed Tool Reveals the Foundations of Cryptography

Blockchain Commons has released Gordian Seed Tool, a new iOS app that allows for the creation, storage, backup, and transformation of cryptographic seeds i...

Gordian QR Tool Supports Vaccine Records, 2FAs, Cryptoseeds, and More

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...

2021 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

In Q1 2021, Blockchain Commons largely focused on working with companies to integrate our Gordian architecture, best practices, specifications, reference l...

2020 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

In summer 2020 (Q3), Blockchain Commons really came together as both a professional organization and as a collective to support open infrastructure for block...

Announcing Blockchain Discussion Forum

Blockchain Commons has been accepted into the new GitHub discussion program, allowing for more freeform discussions within the context of our GitHub repos. A...

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Seed Tool

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview

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...

2022 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

2022 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview

Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...

2021 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

Q3, 2021 saw Blockchain Commons projects that spanned the spectrum from our first security review through continued reference releases, new translations, a...

2021 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Gordian Seed Tool Reveals the Foundations of Cryptography

Blockchain Commons has released Gordian Seed Tool, a new iOS app that allows for the creation, storage, backup, and transformation of cryptographic seeds i...

2020 Q4 Blockchain Commons Report

In Fall 2020, Blockchain Commons continued to work on creating architectures, specifications, and applications to support blockchain infrastructure. This ha...

2020 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

In summer 2020 (Q3), Blockchain Commons really came together as both a professional organization and as a collective to support open infrastructure for block...

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Gordian Envelope

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

Deterministic CBOR Goes to IETF

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)...

Protecting Your Wellness Data with Hashed Elision

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 ...

The Dangers of Digital Credentials in Education

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...

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview

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...

Why CBOR?

Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...

Gordian Envelope Use Cases Overview

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...

An Introduction to Gordian Envelopes

Gordian Envelope is a specification for the achitecture of a “smart document”. It supports the secure, reliable, and deterministic storage and transmission...

2022 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

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Self-Sovereign Identity

Musings of a Trust Architect: Least & Necessary Design Patterns

ABSTRACT: The principles of least privilege and least authority are core computer security principles that can minimize attacks. Not only can they be exte...

Self-Sovereign Computing

ABSTRACT: Self-Sovereign Computing is a transformative paradigm designed to empower individuals to take command of their digital journey and to uphold t...

Musings of a Trust Architect: The Origins of Self-Sovereign Identity

ABSTRACT: The idea of Self-Sovereign Identity emerged in 2016, but it has inspirations dating back centuries. This article explores the historic evolution...

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws

Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...

Private Key Disclosure: A Needless Threat to Rights and Assets

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...

Principal Authority: A New Perspective on Self-Sovereign Identity

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 ...

2021 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Self-Sovereign Identity: 5 Years On

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 ...

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Smart Custody

Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview

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...

2022 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

2022 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview

Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...

2021 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

2021 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

In Q1 2021, Blockchain Commons largely focused on working with companies to integrate our Gordian architecture, best practices, specifications, reference l...

First #SmartCustody Workshop: Simple Cold Storage & Self-Custody

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...

Project Proposal: New Social Social Key Recovery Approach

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 ...

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Silicon Salon

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

Silicon Salon 3 Call for Contributions

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...

2022 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Silicon Salon 2 Posted!

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...

2022 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Announcing the Silicon Salon

What if semiconductor manufacturers made chips especially intended for crypto-wallets? That’s the topic of Blockchain Commons’ first Silicon Salon, which w...

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Advocacy

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws

Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...

Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview

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...

2022 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Private Key Disclosure: A Needless Threat to Rights and Assets

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...

Principal Authority: A New Perspective on Self-Sovereign Identity

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 ...

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Legislation

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws

Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...

2022 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Private Key Disclosure: A Needless Threat to Rights and Assets

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...

2022 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Principal Authority: A New Perspective on Self-Sovereign Identity

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 ...

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Community

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

2022 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

2022 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

2022 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

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SSKR

2021 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

Q3, 2021 saw Blockchain Commons projects that spanned the spectrum from our first security review through continued reference releases, new translations, a...

2021 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video

In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...

Project Proposal: New Social Social Key Recovery Approach

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 ...

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Learning Bitcoin

Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview

Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...

2021 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

Q3, 2021 saw Blockchain Commons projects that spanned the spectrum from our first security review through continued reference releases, new translations, a...

2021 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Learning Bitcoin Upgrades to v2.0

Blockchain Commons has recently released v2.0 of our Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line course. Visit the Course Support the Course Learning Bit...

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UR

Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview

Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...

2021 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video

In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...

Blockchain Commons’ Uniform Resources (URs) Support Airgapped PSBTs & More

The Uniform Resources specification is one of Blockchain Commons’ most notable wallet enhancements of 2020: it enables airgapped PSBTs and is supported throu...

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Gordian Server

Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview

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...

2022 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview

Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...

2021 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

Q3, 2021 saw Blockchain Commons projects that spanned the spectrum from our first security review through continued reference releases, new translations, a...

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CSR

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview

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...

An Introduction to Gordian Envelopes

Gordian Envelope is a specification for the achitecture of a “smart document”. It supports the secure, reliable, and deterministic storage and transmission...

2022 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

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Trust

Musings of a Trust Architect: Open Silicon

ABSTRACT: Drawing inspiration from Ken Thompson’s seminal work, Reflections on Trusting Trust, there are deep-rooted challenges in establishing trust in c...

Musings of a Trust Architect: Problems of Cryptographic Agility

ABSTRACT: Cryptographic agility was once seen as a desirable goal for computer security, but increasingly problems such as high costs, bad interactions, a...

Musings of a Trust Architect: Data Minimization & Selective Disclosure

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...

Musings of a Trust Architect: Progressive Trust

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...

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Airgap

Blockchain Commons Launches LifeHash on the Web

Wolf McNally’s LifeHash is one of Blockchain Commons’ interoperable specifications intended to make digital infrastructure open, interoperable, secure, and...

Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video

In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...

Announcing Blockchain Discussion Forum

Blockchain Commons has been accepted into the new GitHub discussion program, allowing for more freeform discussions within the context of our GitHub repos. A...

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Spotbit

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

2022 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

2020 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

In summer 2020 (Q3), Blockchain Commons really came together as both a professional organization and as a collective to support open infrastructure for block...

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Interns

2022 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

2021 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

Q3, 2021 saw Blockchain Commons projects that spanned the spectrum from our first security review through continued reference releases, new translations, a...

2020 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

In summer 2020 (Q3), Blockchain Commons really came together as both a professional organization and as a collective to support open infrastructure for block...

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LifeHash

Blockchain Commons Launches LifeHash on the Web

Wolf McNally’s LifeHash is one of Blockchain Commons’ interoperable specifications intended to make digital infrastructure open, interoperable, secure, and...

Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video

In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...

2021 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

In Q1 2021, Blockchain Commons largely focused on working with companies to integrate our Gordian architecture, best practices, specifications, reference l...

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DID

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

Seven Years Later: DIDs Have Been Ratified!

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...

2021 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

In Q1 2021, Blockchain Commons largely focused on working with companies to integrate our Gordian architecture, best practices, specifications, reference l...

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RWOT

Musings of a Trust Architect: The Origins of Self-Sovereign Identity

ABSTRACT: The idea of Self-Sovereign Identity emerged in 2016, but it has inspirations dating back centuries. This article explores the historic evolution...

2022 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Self-Sovereign Identity: 5 Years On

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 ...

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QR Tool

Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview

Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...

2021 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Gordian QR Tool Supports Vaccine Records, 2FAs, Cryptoseeds, and More

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...

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Web Page

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

2022 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

Blockchain Commons Launches LifeHash on the Web

Wolf McNally’s LifeHash is one of Blockchain Commons’ interoperable specifications intended to make digital infrastructure open, interoperable, secure, and...

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IETF

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

Deterministic CBOR Goes to IETF

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)...

Why CBOR?

Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...

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AirGap

Blockchain Commons’ Uniform Resources (URs) Support Airgapped PSBTs & More

The Uniform Resources specification is one of Blockchain Commons’ most notable wallet enhancements of 2020: it enables airgapped PSBTs and is supported throu...

Blockchain Commons Releases Feature-complete LetheKit

Blockchain Commons has released a feature-complete version of LetheKit, a do-it-yourself hardware platform that allows you to conduct cryptographic operation...

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Torgap

Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video

In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...

2020 Q4 Blockchain Commons Report

In Fall 2020, Blockchain Commons continued to work on creating architectures, specifications, and applications to support blockchain infrastructure. This ha...

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Vision

Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview

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...

Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview

Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...

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Yearly Overview

Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview

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...

Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview

Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...

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2022 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

2022 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

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W3C

The Dangers of Digital Credentials in Education

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...

Seven Years Later: DIDs Have Been Ratified!

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...

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CBOR

Deterministic CBOR Goes to IETF

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)...

Why CBOR?

Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...

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Standards

Deterministic CBOR Goes to IETF

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)...

Why CBOR?

Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...

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Animated QRs

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

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dCBOR

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

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URs

2023 Q2 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q2 in Brief Our major work in Q2 this year included: Pushing the Envelope Rust Libraries Educational Use Cases Wellness Us...

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

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Bitcoin Framework

Announcing Open Source Bitcoin Framework for iOS

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...

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iOS Libraries

Announcing Open Source Bitcoin Framework for iOS

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...

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LetheKit

Blockchain Commons Releases Feature-complete LetheKit

Blockchain Commons has released a feature-complete version of LetheKit, a do-it-yourself hardware platform that allows you to conduct cryptographic operation...

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Patents

Blockchain Commons Joins COPA

To fulfill its commitment to open source and to a defensive patent strategy, Blockchain Commons has joined COPA, the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance. ...

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COPA

Blockchain Commons Joins COPA

To fulfill its commitment to open source and to a defensive patent strategy, Blockchain Commons has joined COPA, the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance. ...

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Gordian Cosigner

2020 Q4 Blockchain Commons Report

In Fall 2020, Blockchain Commons continued to work on creating architectures, specifications, and applications to support blockchain infrastructure. This ha...

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Video

Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video

In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...

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Bytewords

Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video

In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...

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Bitcoin Standup

2021 Q3 Blockchain Commons Report

Q3, 2021 saw Blockchain Commons projects that spanned the spectrum from our first security review through continued reference releases, new translations, a...

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Recovery

Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview

Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...

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Services

2022 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

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Specifications

2022 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

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...

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Wyoming

Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws

Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...

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Digital Assets

Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws

Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...

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Musings

2023 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

2023 Q1 in Brief In brief, our work Blockchain Commons work this quarter included: Foundations dCBOR Wyoming Legislation Musing...

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Credentials

The Dangers of Digital Credentials in Education

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...

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Privacy

Protecting Your Wellness Data with Hashed Elision

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 ...

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Self-Sovereign Computing

ABSTRACT: Self-Sovereign Computing is a transformative paradigm designed to empower individuals to take command of their digital journey and to uphold t...

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Verifiable Credentials

Musings of a Trust Architect: Least & Necessary Design Patterns

ABSTRACT: The principles of least privilege and least authority are core computer security principles that can minimize attacks. Not only can they be exte...

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