by Darrell O'Donnell | Nov 7, 2018 | Blockchain, Digital Identity, General Thoughts and Rambles, Self Sovereign Identity, Sovrin, Standards
I’m working with a few Canadian leaders on a large report that is aimed at describing the current state of Digital Wallets, particularly wallets that are more about digital identity and credentials – as opposed to crypto wallets. One concept that is clear...
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 | 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...
