Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Architect—Internet Cryptography Pioneer—Co-author TLS Security Standard—Collaborative Tools & Patterns

Berkeley, CA
LifeWithAlacrity.com
Joined January 2007
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    25 Apr 2016

    My long read article "The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity" shares a vision and a draft of some principles. Comments?

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    9 hours ago

    "Hah! Figured it out." "What?" "I made a theory of everything-" "Let me see! Hm... Wow! You actually joined quantum physics with general relativity. Amazing!" "If you say so." "And tied in with.. behavioural statistics?" "Yes, so I could figure out where I left my keys."

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    17 hours ago

    Ha! I wonder where they found the loss data or the models to underwrite this. My. Gox may have done some good after all. And, the fine print on this would be really interesting to read.

    Crytocurrency storage firm Kingdom Trust obtains insurance through Lloyd's
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    5 hours ago

    I added support for creating, updating, and signing to my node.js PSBT BIP 174 implementation and it now passes every test vector listed in the BIP. BIP 174 is designed for multi-sig but I hope to extend the format with new keys to support HTLC style PSBTs

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  5. 15 hours ago

    👎🤬In addition to posts from my Twitter account no longer cross-posting to Facebook, all of my Facebook history of conversations ON FACEBOOK about those tweets has been removed. Bad move!

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  6. 15 hours ago

    👍A good syllabus on privacy law…

    Here is my syllabus for the very idiosyncratic privacy law class I’m teaching this fall at Yale. “The Changing Right to Privacy” looks at privacy from diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives – inc. philosophy, ethics, history, policy, & critical theory.
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    19 hours ago

    ⚡️ Announcing Spark: a minimalistic wallet GUI for c-lightning ⚡️ 🎇 Simple & minimalistic 🎇 Purely off-chain 🎇 Desktop and mobile apps 🎇 Progressive Web App 🎇 Automatic TLS & Onion 🎇 Get started: $ npx spark-wallet -l /path/to/lightning

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    Aug 28

    Learn about DIDs, Verifiable Credentials, and other technologies enabling self-sovereign identity at our panel "Interoperability and Decentralisation: Part I"

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  9. Aug 28

    Excellent overview of the history & perils of India’s digital identity system & how US-based firms are encouraging it.

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  10. Aug 28

    I’ve become a big fan of the Legacy style of board games. Here Shannon dives into the emotional design & player agency to conclude his series on the mechanics of Legacy games.

    And here's my newest Mechanics & Meeples, concluding my look at Legacy Games. (I say concluding, but I already have a title for a fifth article: Legacy vs Campaign! I just need to see if there's enough to talk about there that isn't already covered.)
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    Aug 27

    I just published “Measuring Node Centrality in Lightning Network”

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    Aug 24

    1/ A complete debunking of top Lightning FUD claims:

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    Aug 24

    I'm going to "Rebooting the Web of Trust VII - Fall 2018 - Toronto, ON, CA". See you there? via

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  14. Aug 24

    This is a useful GitHub feature I didn’t know about: a CodeOwners file to define individuals or teams that are responsible for code in a repo Are there any other special GitHub files I don’t know about?

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  15. Aug 24

    . what is that tool in GitHub for respec documents that adds the ability to review PRs in a formatted form rather than seeing only the raw html text? Any other tips/advice for Github?

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  16. Aug 24

    In my own open source projects, with bitcoin-core, as well as in W3C Standards & we do the bulk of our work as GitHub issues & comments on pull requests. Some good tips in this thread, and a PM from GitHub listening for feedback & ideas.

    i’m on the product team and want to know more about how you think we can improve reading/writing pull request and issue comments!
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  17. Aug 23

    I asked for her top 5 collaboration tips. What are yours?

    Replying to @ChristopherA
    Talk in person. Don’t multitask, really be present. Take notes and share them afterwards. Set deadlines and commit.
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    Aug 23

    I think this is worth retweeting, both because the thread I responded to is interesting and and part of an important discussion, and because I made reference to so many important concepts I've learned about over the years

    Replying to @nlw
    for a given set of nodes, hierarchies are the most efficient way (least number of connections) to connect everything up and relay information quickly, but it requires an authoritative way to sort information, has multiple single points of failure, and is resistant to change
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  19. Aug 23

    Eugene Eric Kim also offers some nice strategy & culture resources at

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  20. Aug 23

    "…Conversely, a group might move in perfect lock-step without ever having explicitly agreed on where it’s going or how…. It might even achieve this while explicitly disagreeing."

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  21. Aug 23

    Quote from one of my favorite facilitators, : "Alignment is not the same thing as agreement, although people often conflate the two. A group might verbally agree on a destination, but its participants might still move in conflicting directions…"

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