I'm parking zKal. Here are my lessons learned. The best place to start is Brewster Kahle's feedback to me when I was in Berlin:

Have you ever asked yourself which protocols get used when downloading pictures from the Perseverance Mars rover to Earth? I hadn’t thought about that either, until I came across an intriguing message...

Every amendment to US copyright law (1790-present) as a git commit. Browse 236 years of legislation with git log, git diff, and git checkout. - katelynsills/copyright-history

The standard session model: user logs in, server stores state, server decides what you're allowed to do. Structurally incompatible with privacy. I've ...

Demo/POC of using just the delegation parts, in the browser

My first Ethereum conference was 20,000 people. The Amsterdam tourist district was a drunken, crypto merch explosion. I wondered how many were setting themse...

Everyone's focused on what ZK proofs hide. We're missing what they can usefully reveal. Reputation, attendance, commitment, these used to require surveill...

I've applied to the Community Privacy Residency so thought I'd share notes from a cryptographic exploration I come back to every once in a while. What i...

On the complexities of protocol governance.

ethBerlin is full of rooms you have to find yourself. At the back of the third floor there's a big, quiet room with good light and big windows. You can ge...

This Moltbot impersonation campaign is a case study in supply-chain risk, brand hijacking, and what happens when open source goes viral.