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...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 2, 2018 | Blockchain, Digital Identity, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Self Sovereign Identity
I woke up in the middle of the night (too many exciting and scary thoughts bouncing around in my skull apparently) and was silly enough to see a tweet roll by where Naval Ravikant was engaging with MalwareJake. Censorship-resistant, permanent social media.Distributed...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was listening to a great 11:FS podcast over the holiday – it was about where large companies (FTSE 350) are working on blockchain and what they are thinking. The chairman of MBN Solutions, Paul Forrest met with Simon Taylor of 11:FS to discuss a deep survey...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Jan 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
2018 Will Be Boring For Blockchain. The amazingly exciting future for blockchain – replacing banking, overhauling government, and other exciting concepts – is far off. For now and for the next 12-18 months there are real-life uses of blockchain to...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Dec 20, 2017 | Blockchain, Digital Identity, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Self Sovereign Identity
Given the current madness of cryptocurrency – “returns” of >10,000% for some speculators everyone is talking about the “bubble”. Others are talking about Bitcoin hitting insanely high values ($1M and higher). There are some...
