by Darrell O'Donnell | Jul 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Defensive Architecture I drive my business partners and clients nuts at times. The biggest fights we have, which are respectful and usually produce awesome results, come down to my insistence on Defensive Architecture (I’ll explain that in a bit). I was just...
by Darrell O'Donnell | May 17, 2018 | General Thoughts and Rambles, Situational Awareness
Decisions Are Hard Decisions drive the success of so many different things. In life. In business. A decision is often the thing that changes the trajectory – to failure or to higher levels of success. But if you don’t actually MAKE A DECISION you’re...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Apr 29, 2018 | GDPR, General Thoughts and Rambles, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Self Sovereign Identity, Sovrin
I am sceptical that the “benefits” that most of us are using about self-sovereign identity (SSI) are going to change the world. I really don’t believe that they make much of a difference to people and organizations. I believe that self-serving...
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...
