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Day 18: Stacks will be the Paypal mafia of Bitcoin
It's incredibly motivational to see what Stacks OGs and the community are building!
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State of Decentralized Naming
The state of decentralized naming in November 2021 in an 18 minute video.
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Stacking & PoX: Economically anchoring the STX ecosystem in Bitcoin
Blockstack's Stack 2.0 chain is not only cryptographically anchored in Bitcoin, but also economically anchored in Bitcoin.
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On Blockstack Governance & the Stacks Foundation
Thoughts on governance in decentralized ecosystems and the newly created Stacks Foundation.
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Blockstack
An ecosystem building the foundations for a user-owned internet. 100s of apps. Over $75M raised.
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We aren’t ready to own our own data...yet
We talk a lot about users owning their own data. Data ownership means control. Having control means taking responsibility. Responsibility is a lot of work! Let me explain… For the past year, this blog made a temporary move over to the salibra.com domain. The reason for this move was
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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
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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
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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 users have
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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 group of
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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 we’