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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

here's a copy on YT: "Bringing Self Sovereign Identities to the Masses via ATproto - #ATmosphereConf 2026" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro2b... -- Also check recent stuff by @christophera.bsky.social : developer.blockchaincommons.com/meetings/202... revisitingssi.com

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Bringing Self Sovereign Identities to the Masses via ATproto - ATmosphereConf 2026

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Has the concept of self-sovereignty affected your career or life? Tell me your story!

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Do you use the term "self-sovereign"—for identity, for keys, for your wallet? If you do, it was ten years ago today I chose this term, using it to describe an inalienable right to control your own digital life. We've learned much in the last decade, so I'm offering an update.🧵…

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I'm always seeking out the right words for what digital systems do to people. "Privacy" means something different in every room, and has become so overloaded it has become meaningless. "Censorship resistance" sounds like it's only about speech or money. Neither names the mechanism. 🧵…

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

👍 The new Utah #SEDI draft SB0275 has the essence of my first #SSI principle that I wrote 10 years ago: "(1) An individual possesses an individual identity innate to the individual's existence and independent of the state, which identity is fundamental and inalienable." le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/...

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 17/11/2025

Next year it’ll be 10 years since @christophera.bsky.social wrote The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity along with a definition and 10 principles of SSI. A group is now being convened to refine these principles. Hope to see some atproto folks get involved here, including @bnewbold.net & co.

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Announcing the 10-Year SSI Revision Project

In 2016, I published The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity and with it proposed ten foundational principles for digital identity systems. These principles...

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

What would it mean to build infrastructure that can’t fail you? Not one that never has problems, but where someone else can't make it unavailable to you? Where fundamental capabilities exist as rights, not revokable privileges? For this, we need “Exodus Protocols” 🧵… [1/19]

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The Q3 2025 Quarterly Report from Blockchain Commons is here! Advancing Bitcoin FROST signing, strengthening provenance, launching Gordian Clubs, and a preview of Hubert ‘secret drops’—each a step toward interoperable, self-sovereign autonomous systems and resilient digital trust. 👇 [1/13] 🧵

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Alex Gladstein @gladstein.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

As a co-author & editor of TLS 1.0, I’m quite disappointed that the IETF editors & SEC Area Director have declared “rough consensus” exists to standardize PQ-only cyphersuites (rather than double encryption EC/PQ). Feels like IETF has been captured. See: blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-wea...

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cr.yp.to: 2025.10.04: NSA and IETF

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HackerNoon @hackernoon.com · 04/10/2025

Can Web3 dismantle online censorship and restore true digital freedom? Explore the illusion of control and whether decentralization can break the chains. #decentralizedinternet

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The Illusion of Digital Freedom: Can Web3 Break the Chains of Online Censorship?

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

“If a system cannot hear you say no, it was never built for us. It was built for them.” I'll be presenting this principle to the Swiss e-ID team at a meeting open to the public on Thursday, October 2nd, 16:00 CEST (7am PDT). (meeting details below) 🧵… 1/12

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

After 32 years, a feature inspired by Project Xanadu's vision becomes reality. Join me for the first demo of Gordian Clubs - autonomous cryptographic objects that make coordination unstoppable. No servers. No surveillance. Just math. 🧵… 1/5

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I just saw “The Majestic” on the big screen last night. When it came out it was 2001 and just felt like a nostalgic feel-good movie. But in 2025 its portrayal of resistance to government “red scare” tactics had the audience gasping with connection to Kimmel. More relevant today!

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Charlotte Social 360 (CS360) @charlottesoc360.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Great Article for all startups, entrepreneurs and businesses should consider the Minimum Viable Product (MVP approach to test their ideas market viability and also to have real insights to pitch to investors. #Tech #SoftwareDev #BlueskyTech #Dev #MVP #Programming #Coding #PHP #Laaravel

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Agree @vitalik.ca‬ - "I support it only if it's open source" SHOULD be more common! But open source is just the beginning - it's only Level 0 of what we need! True #OpenDevelopment requires so much more to actually deliver on the promises you outline. 🧵… 1/10

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

FROST is a powerful next-gen multisig protocol for Bitcoin — more efficient, more resilient. Join us next Wednesday 10am PDT for a live demo + dev discussion on using FROST with BDK and Taproot via our new CLI playground. 🧵… [1/8]

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Reports have been coming back from the Global Digital Collaboration conference (GDC25), and they're pretty discouraging for those of us in the decentralized tech community. I wrote about a lot of the problems today. [1/13] www.blockchaincommons.com/musings/gdc25/

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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 the Global Digital Collaboration conference...

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Verifiable Credentials are not truth. That shouldn't be a controversial statement, but it is because the core intent of verifiable credentials has been confused following our early work. [1/11]

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Bill Atkinson, one of the most quietly revolutionary minds in computing, has passed away. His creations — QuickDraw, MacPaint, and especially HyperCard — transformed not just the Mac, but how I thought about computing. A thread 🧵… 1/9

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 23/04/2025

My thoughts on Bluesky verification as someone who was deeply involved in an analogous scheme (selecting trusted root CAs for browsers) at Mozilla many years ago. The analogy is not exact: not trusting a verifier just means no checkmark, while not trusting a root CA means nasty security warnings 1/

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today's quarterly report from Blockchain Commons covers our three big initiatives in Q1, 2025: ZeWIF for Zcash, Open Integrity for GitHub, and Post-Quantum Cryptography. It was a busy quarter! [1/12] www.blockchaincommons.com/quarterlies/...

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2025 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

Blockchain Commons focused on the ZeWIF project for the Zcash blockchain during the first quarter of 2025, but that didn’t stopped us from also advancing a few other priorities, including the initial ...

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Today marks 20 years since Git’s birth, and our digital world runs on its foundations—but trust was never part of its design. Can you trust a Git repo? That’s why I created the Open Integrity Project: to bring integrity and provenance to code. 🧵…[1/14] www.blockchaincommons.com/musings/open...

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Musings of a Trust Architect: Architecting Trust in Software Releases

When can you trust a software release? How do you know that a software repo is safe, that it represents the intent of its creators? On the 20th anniversary of Git, these questions are more important t...

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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Really cool approach! I wouldn’t be surprised if Anthropic implemented something similar to this as a premium Claude Code feature for teams. I especially like the idea of capturing context of thought process and decision points… if only we could get people to do that too 😅

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I've been experimenting with Claude Code CLI - @anthropic.com's new command-line interface that lets you work with Claude AI on coding tasks directly from your terminal. It's quite powerful, but benefits from structured guidance. Here is a repo with what I've learned so far. 🧵… 1/12

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I've been finding @anthropic.com ‘s agentic "Claude Code CLI" quite powerful (and I like the TUI aka Terminal User Interface). Mostly I use it to facilitate git flow branch management. My bootstrap files for a new repo to use with the `claude` cli tool is at github.com/ChristopherA...

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GitHub - ChristopherA/Claude-Code-CLI-Toolkit

Contribute to ChristopherA/Claude-Code-CLI-Toolkit development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Last year, I talked about the identity tragedy of World War II on #Foremembrance Day (March 27th). It was a harsh example of the damage that we can do when we record identity. This year, I fear things are getting worse. Remember: "Regime change happens"…🧵[1/5]

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The "Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) enshrines fundamental freedoms, but without economic agency — the #FreedomToTransact — many of those rights ring hollow. 🧵👇 [1/14]

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The 2024 annual report from Blockchain Commons is here! It highlights our work toward an open, secure, and compassionate digital infrastructure, emphasizing interoperability and self-sovereign wallet standards through key projects: dCBOR, FROST, and Gordian Envelope. 🧵… [1/11]

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

We will be holding a @BlockchainComns meeting on January 24th at 10am to discuss the upcoming Zcash extensible Wallet Interchange Format (ZeWIF). If you're a wallet developer using or interested in using Zcash, I invite you to attend! [1/7] forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-exte...

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Zcash Extensible Wallet Interchange Format (ZeWIF) Meeting

Hey Folks, Blockchain Commons & Zingo Labs were recently awarded a grant to produce a ZCash Extensible Wallet Interchange Format, libraries for moving things in and out of the format, and a ZExCavato...

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

👍📣 "In EUDI’s implementation today this is a single point of failure where issuer corruption can cause huge damage to persecuted minorities and targeted subjects: it delegates the revocation issuance to a single entity instead of requiring more approvals by a quorum of stakeholders."

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hey Folks, just a reminder that our FROST Wallet Developers meeting, hosted by Blockchain Commons, is tomorrow at 10am PT. [1/2]

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hierarchies thrive on obedience; networks thrive on cooperation. The future belongs to those who dismantle the former and build the latter.

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Dr. Carsten Stöcker @carstenstoecker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Building networks on cooperation & equal participation demands authentic ecosystem leadership & aligned incentives focused on real-world impact, not personal gain. But true ecosystem leadership is rare. Many network leaders today advocate for extreme collaboration but use it to push their agendas.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I actually am a strong disagree on "trustless" and "zero trust" There is no such thing as trustlessness or zero trust Instead there is such thing as *building trust* and *consent* in a hostile world We can't live without being able to cooperate and bulid trust. I believe in "secure cooperation".

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Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz · 23/11/2024

“Decentralization is the result of a system that diffuses power throughout its structure, so that no node holds particular power at the center.” Brilliant!

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is an excellent review of some options for Bitcoin to use quantum-computer resistant hash algorithms (like SHA256) for signatures. Some of the best choices require no key reuse, which is also the best practice today. Don’t reuse keys or addresses! conduition.io/cryptography...

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Hash-Based Signature Schemes for Post-Quantum Bitcoin

All safe roads once were wild.

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Dr. Carsten Stöcker @carstenstoecker.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Just read this fascinating piece on the origins of Self-Sovereign Identity #SSI by @christopherallen.bsky.social www.lifewithalacrity.com/article/orig... A must-read for anyone interested in digital identity, decentralized systems, and how SSI is shaping the future of trust online.

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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 of sovereignty and demonstrates how it can be...

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

In real life, we extend trust gradually, slowly learning about people we're interacting with & revealing more of ourself in the process. Why don't we do that in the digital world? That's the topic of "Building Trust in Gradients", today's Musings. [1/11]

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Musings of a Trust Architect: Building Trust in Gradients

Progressive Trust—it sounds a bit like something from a relationship advice column, right? But in the world of digital interactions, it’s actually a revolutionary model, one that moves us away from…

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Christopher Allen @christophera.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

@jay.bsky.team I don’t know if you are looking for an independent board member, but if you’d like to consider person who chose the term and wrote the 10 principles of self-sovereign identity, contact me.

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