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 | 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...
by Darrell O'Donnell | Dec 15, 2017 | Blockchain, Self Sovereign Identity
The EU GDPR shift has business in a bit of a fit to say things mildly. Further, the impact of combining Blockchain and GDPR has tied some technology-focused solutions in knots. I argue here that there are solutions – but they need to be dealt with now. The...
