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New Internet Labs
Building a new browser for the new internet. Creator of the Can't Be Evil sandbox.
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Bringing decentralized identity to traditional apps
TL;DR: In this technical post for developers, I walk through how we added Blockstack ID support to the Discourse forum software. At Blockstack, we're building a new internet for decentralized apps. A new internet implies new apps. But what if you've already built a current
blockchain
Product/Market Fit in Crypto Token Projects
Product/Market fit is the degree to which a product satisfies a strong market demand. Before product/market fit is like playing the game of business on hard mode, acquiring users and making sales goes very slowly. After product/market fit is like playing on easy mode, users are banging
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A Guide to Slack Identity Theft
TL;DR: Slack removed usernames enabling easy theft of other users' identities. Read on to learn how... Around the world teams everywhere spend their days (and too often nights) glued to a tool that has done more to enable remote first, distributed collaboration than anything since the advent of
stacks
How I built an Ethereum wallet on Bitcoin with 3 lines of code
This post is a companion to a talk I did at the Ethereum Classic Summit in Hong Kong on November 13, 2017. Cryptocurrency and token wallets are pretty simple. You generate a private key that only the owner of the wallet knows and a public key that's shared
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Proof of Humanity: a Deep Dive into the Blockstack Token Sale Registration App
TL;DR: The Blockstack Token Sale Voucher Registration App uses decentralized Blockstack IDs and social media account proofs to make sure registrants are real humans. Read on for a behind-the-scenes look into how it works... It's the middle of the Blockstack Token Sale Registration period, where
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Swimming with a System
"goals are for losers." -Scott Adams I became familiar with Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams during the past year's Presidential election - familiar with him outside of his signature on Dilbert cartoons that is. One of his blog posts about the election came across my Twitter feed. Of
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Blockstack in Asia Meetup Marathon Recap
From July 8th to 10th, I co-hosted Asia’s first three Blockstack meetups with Blockstack Labs co-founder Ryan Shea in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Taipei. At each meetup, Ryan presented an introduction to Blockstack after which we moved into demos and discussion. Each meetup saw a demographically unique
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Blockstack meetups come to Asia!
The great Bitcoin halvening is upon us in less than 2 short days. To celebrate, Blockstack meetups are coming to Asia! I’m delighted to be organizing three meetups in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Taipei this coming weekend. Ryan Shea, co-founder of Blockstack Labs will be in attendance and
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Live Photos on the Web
_Update March 2020: After migrating this blog post, the code on this page no longer works. I'm leaving it here for historical reference. Mealwhile, if you want to display Live Photos on the web, Apple has tools for you. TL;DR: I made Live Photos work on the
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2015: The Year the Great Firewall went Global
TL;DR: 2015 marked a changing point in China’s relationship with the global Internet. This post takes a look back at 2015 and 16 events in which the effects of China’s Internet control and censorship regime started being felt outside of its borders. I spent much of the