Posts with keyword: legitimacy

5 entries

Streaming Trust

Wed May 24 07:18:00 2023

Federated identity stores are like music CDs: large troves of data to be consumed from a single source. Self-sovereign identity is like streaming: share just what you want, just when it's needed.
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Decentralized Systems Don't Care

Tue Jul 5 09:21:00 2022

I like to remind my students that decentralized systems don't care what they (or anyone else thinks). The paradox is that they care very much what everyone thinks. We call that coherence and it's what makes decentralized systems maddeningly frustrating to understand, architect, and maintain.
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Decentralized System in a Box

Tue May 4 14:53:00 2021

I’ve been a beekeeper for many years. I love the honey, but I love watching the bees even more. They are a fascinating example of a natural, decentralized system.
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Legitimacy and Decentralized Systems

Mon Apr 26 14:44:00 2021

Why are some decentralized systems accepted and widely used while others wither? Why do some “hard forks” succeed while others fail? It all comes down to legitimacy.
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Self-Sovereign Identity and the Legitimacy of Permissioned Ledgers

Mon Sep 19 16:45:00 2016

This post justifies the claim that an identity system based on a permissioned distributed ledger is legitimately self-sovereign. The post also examines the claims to legitimacy that social login and distributed ledger identity systems make.
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