here's a copy on YT: "Bringing Self Sovereign Identities to the Masses via ATproto - #ATmosphereConf 2026" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro2b... -- Also check recent stuff by @christophera.bsky.social : developer.blockchaincommons.com/meetings/202... revisitingssi.com

Bringing Self Sovereign Identities to the Masses via ATproto - ATmosphereConf 2026

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Has the concept of self-sovereignty affected your career or life? Tell me your story!

Christopher Allen@christophera.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Do you use the term "self-sovereign"—for identity, for keys, for your wallet? If you do, it was ten years ago today I chose this term, using it to describe an inalienable right to control your own digital life. We've learned much in the last decade, so I'm offering an update.🧵…

Do you use the term "self-sovereign"—for identity, for keys, for your wallet? If you do, it was ten years ago today I chose this term, using it to describe an inalienable right to control your own digital life. We've learned much in the last decade, so I'm offering an update.🧵…

I'm always seeking out the right words for what digital systems do to people. "Privacy" means something different in every room, and has become so overloaded it has become meaningless. "Censorship resistance" sounds like it's only about speech or money. Neither names the mechanism. 🧵…

Utah just passed SB 275 unanimously — Senate 25-0, House 70-0. Their State-Endorsed Digital Identity (SEDI) program is now law. This is a big win for self-sovereign identity. I wrote about it at @blockchaincommons.com. 🧵… /1 www.blockchaincommons.com/musings/Musi...

Musings of a Trust Architect: Progress toward a State-Endorsed Identity (SEDI) in Utah

UPDATE, March 5, 2026: SB 275 has passed the Utah legislature unanimously — the Senate voted 25-0 and the House 70-0 — and has been sent to the governor for signature. It takes effect May 6, 2026. Thi...

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👍 The new Utah #SEDI draft SB0275 has the essence of my first #SSI principle that I wrote 10 years ago: "(1) An individual possesses an individual identity innate to the individual's existence and independent of the state, which identity is fundamental and inalienable." le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/...

Next year it’ll be 10 years since @christophera.bsky.social wrote The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity along with a definition and 10 principles of SSI. A group is now being convened to refine these principles. Hope to see some atproto folks get involved here, including @bnewbold.net & co.

Announcing the 10-Year SSI Revision Project

In 2016, I published The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity and with it proposed ten foundational principles for digital identity systems. These principles...

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What would it mean to build infrastructure that can’t fail you? Not one that never has problems, but where someone else can't make it unavailable to you? Where fundamental capabilities exist as rights, not revokable privileges? For this, we need “Exodus Protocols” 🧵… [1/19]

The Q3 2025 Quarterly Report from Blockchain Commons is here! Advancing Bitcoin FROST signing, strengthening provenance, launching Gordian Clubs, and a preview of Hubert ‘secret drops’—each a step toward interoperable, self-sovereign autonomous systems and resilient digital trust. 👇 [1/13] 🧵

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Journal of Democracy@jodemocracy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Today, governments can see who buys what, who pays whom, and who donates to which cause. But they cannot easily trace or confiscate Bitcoin. The digital currency offers a lifeline to democratic movements operating in the most repressive places. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

As a co-author & editor of TLS 1.0, I’m quite disappointed that the IETF editors & SEC Area Director have declared “rough consensus” exists to standardize PQ-only cyphersuites (rather than double encryption EC/PQ). Feels like IETF has been captured. See: blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-wea...

Can Web3 dismantle online censorship and restore true digital freedom? Explore the illusion of control and whether decentralization can break the chains. #decentralizedinternet

The Illusion of Digital Freedom: Can Web3 Break the Chains of Online Censorship?

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“If a system cannot hear you say no, it was never built for us. It was built for them.” I'll be presenting this principle to the Swiss e-ID team at a meeting open to the public on Thursday, October 2nd, 16:00 CEST (7am PDT). (meeting details below) 🧵… 1/12

After 32 years, a feature inspired by Project Xanadu's vision becomes reality. Join me for the first demo of Gordian Clubs - autonomous cryptographic objects that make coordination unstoppable. No servers. No surveillance. Just math. 🧵… 1/5

I just saw “The Majestic” on the big screen last night. When it came out it was 2001 and just felt like a nostalgic feel-good movie. But in 2025 its portrayal of resistance to government “red scare” tactics had the audience gasping with connection to Kimmel. More relevant today!

Great Article for all startups, entrepreneurs and businesses should consider the Minimum Viable Product (MVP approach to test their ideas market viability and also to have real insights to pitch to investors. #Tech #SoftwareDev #BlueskyTech #Dev #MVP #Programming #Coding #PHP #Laaravel

Christopher Allen@christophera.bsky.social · 2y ago

You might be interested in an article on related topic: “Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) is an alternative to the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach, emphasizing the importance of a robust, scalable, and expandable architecture.” www.blockchaincommons.com/musings/musi...

Agree @vitalik.ca‬ - "I support it only if it's open source" SHOULD be more common! But open source is just the beginning - it's only Level 0 of what we need! True #OpenDevelopment requires so much more to actually deliver on the promises you outline. 🧵… 1/10

FROST is a powerful next-gen multisig protocol for Bitcoin — more efficient, more resilient. Join us next Wednesday 10am PDT for a live demo + dev discussion on using FROST with BDK and Taproot via our new CLI playground. 🧵… [1/8]

Reports have been coming back from the Global Digital Collaboration conference (GDC25), and they're pretty discouraging for those of us in the decentralized tech community. I wrote about a lot of the problems today. [1/13] www.blockchaincommons.com/musings/gdc25/

Musings of a Trust Architect: When Technical Standards Meet Geopolitical Reality

Reflections on recent conversations about digital identity, sovereignty, and the erosion of foundational principles Echoes from Geneva I wasn’t present at the Global Digital Collaboration conference...

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Verifiable Credentials are not truth. That shouldn't be a controversial statement, but it is because the core intent of verifiable credentials has been confused following our early work. [1/11]

Bill Atkinson, one of the most quietly revolutionary minds in computing, has passed away. His creations — QuickDraw, MacPaint, and especially HyperCard — transformed not just the Mac, but how I thought about computing. A thread 🧵… 1/9

🔐 We’ve lost the privacy plot. @hackernoon.com just published an interview where I dive into how we got here—and what we still can do about it. hackernoon.com/the-co-write... 👇 (more links in 🧵…) 1/6

The Co-Writer of TLS Says We’ve Lost the Privacy Plot | HackerNoon

Christopher Allen, co-author of TLS and a pioneer in digital identity, reflects on the state of privacy, decentralization, and coercion in the digital age.

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My thoughts on Bluesky verification as someone who was deeply involved in an analogous scheme (selecting trusted root CAs for browsers) at Mozilla many years ago. The analogy is not exact: not trusting a verifier just means no checkmark, while not trusting a root CA means nasty security warnings 1/

Today's quarterly report from Blockchain Commons covers our three big initiatives in Q1, 2025: ZeWIF for Zcash, Open Integrity for GitHub, and Post-Quantum Cryptography. It was a busy quarter! [1/12] www.blockchaincommons.com/quarterlies/...

2025 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report

Blockchain Commons focused on the ZeWIF project for the Zcash blockchain during the first quarter of 2025, but that didn’t stopped us from also advancing a few other priorities, including the initial ...

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Today marks 20 years since Git’s birth, and our digital world runs on its foundations—but trust was never part of its design. Can you trust a Git repo? That’s why I created the Open Integrity Project: to bring integrity and provenance to code. 🧵…[1/14] www.blockchaincommons.com/musings/open...

Musings of a Trust Architect: Architecting Trust in Software Releases

When can you trust a software release? How do you know that a software repo is safe, that it represents the intent of its creators? On the 20th anniversary of Git, these questions are more important t...

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Really cool approach! I wouldn’t be surprised if Anthropic implemented something similar to this as a premium Claude Code feature for teams. I especially like the idea of capturing context of thought process and decision points… if only we could get people to do that too 😅

I've been experimenting with Claude Code CLI - @anthropic.com's new command-line interface that lets you work with Claude AI on coding tasks directly from your terminal. It's quite powerful, but benefits from structured guidance. Here is a repo with what I've learned so far. 🧵… 1/12

I've been finding @anthropic.com ‘s agentic "Claude Code CLI" quite powerful (and I like the TUI aka Terminal User Interface). Mostly I use it to facilitate git flow branch management. My bootstrap files for a new repo to use with the `claude` cli tool is at github.com/ChristopherA...

GitHub - ChristopherA/Claude-Code-CLI-Toolkit

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Last year, I talked about the identity tragedy of World War II on #Foremembrance Day (March 27th). It was a harsh example of the damage that we can do when we record identity. This year, I fear things are getting worse. Remember: "Regime change happens"…🧵[1/5]

The "Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) enshrines fundamental freedoms, but without economic agency — the #FreedomToTransact — many of those rights ring hollow. 🧵👇 [1/14]