by Darrell O'Donnell | Apr 20, 2018 | Digital Identity, GDPR, Privacy by Design, Sovrin, Standards
GDPR and Sovrin – Sensitive Data Elements GDPR is getting everyone’s attention from the C-Suite, through legal, and into engineering. But the discussions that I have been observing are largely about theory and not about practical steps that can be taken....
by Darrell O'Donnell | Apr 18, 2018 | Blockchain, Digital Identity, Information Exchange, Verifiable Credentials
One of my favourite client projects (Verifiable Organization Network) was demonstrated at last month’s Rebooting the Web of Trust conference in Santa Barbara. John Jordan runs an incredible project out of the Office of the CIO for British Columbia. I play a...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Apr 5, 2018 | General Thoughts and Rambles
One of the primary problems with any aggressive project is that opportunities to fail are everywhere – but they are hidden. We see so many exciting things: new things to learn; new projects that come with revenue; new features that would make our product or...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Feb 19, 2018 | Blockchain, Digital Identity, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Self Sovereign Identity
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Blockchain Identity Douglas Adams was incredible. He invented an invisibility field. The science behind it was brilliant and it worked. Blockchain breaks it though – especially Blockchain Identity But hang on – “it...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 29, 2018 | Blockchain, Digital Identity, Self Sovereign Identity, Sovrin
I was reading an article by Robert Hackett (@rhhackett) and saw that Esther Dyson appeared to come down pretty hard on the idea of self-sovereign identity at the World Economic Forum this past week. In Robert’s article, Bitcoin and Blockchains in Davos,...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 21, 2018 | Blockchain, Digital Identity, General Thoughts and Rambles
So Ryan Selkis (aka @twobitidiot) went on a tear this morning with a multi-point tweetstorm. At scale, the only way to tax crypto will be at the miner level. That’s how BTC, ETH or the dominant cryptocurrency will become a true global reserve. — Ryan Selkis...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 17, 2018 | Blockchain, Digital Identity, Self Sovereign Identity, Sovrin
CEOs Are Beginning To Get Sovrin. I was happy to talk about Sovrin with a Silicon Valley-based CEO earlier this week. Hearing that he understands that the costs and liability of digital identity can be turned into revenue (from cost) and asset (from liability). His...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 9, 2018 | Blockchain, General Thoughts and Rambles
I don’t think we need to fear the crypto bear. If the crypto bubble bursts it may be the best thing to happen in a while. There is a story underneath this madness and that’s where the real magic is. Let’s look at my current favourite piece of...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 5, 2018 | Blockchain, General Thoughts and Rambles, Self Sovereign Identity
I’m working with a few of our portfolio companies and some clients that all have similar issues. Post funding execution. It seems so easy right? Raise the money then build the stuff. Simple formula right? But it isn’t that simple. I am parachuted in to do...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 3, 2018 | Blockchain, Digital Identity, Self Sovereign Identity
I have 2 passions that I never thought would align. They are, I thought, completely unrelated: Container-Based Housing – There are some incredible urban (and remote) housing concepts that use containers. I have an urge to build a small container-based...
