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Dear NPM: Your Hands Are Full With Left Pad But I Can Help
Dear NPM: Your Hands Are Full With Left Pad But I Can Help
Here’s an actual email I wrote to one of the founders of NPM about a possible path forward that will allow them to increase the security of…
Ryan Shea
Mar 24
It’s Not About Privacy — Phone Protection Today is Personal Safety Tomorrow
It’s Not About Privacy — Phone Protection Today is Personal Safety Tomorrow
By now you’ve probably come across the big tech policy debate of the day…
Ryan Shea
Mar 16
Fixing Flaws in the Original Design of the Internet: Trust-to-Trust Principle
Fixing Flaws in the Original Design of the Internet: Trust-to-Trust Principle
We should’ve never trusted the Internet core to begin with, but it’s not too late to correct that mistake.
Muneeb Ali
Mar 15
Forking a Network
Forking a Network
There has been debate lately about having a more diverse eco-system of Bitcoin implementations. The different implementations can…
Muneeb Ali
Feb 14
The Scaling Announcement Bitcoin Core Should Have Made
The Scaling Announcement Bitcoin Core Should Have Made
Here is the announcement by Bitcoin Core that I would have liked to have seen, but that never was. Thanks to the few core developers…
Ryan Shea
Jan 18
What’s at Stake in the Bitcoin Block Size Debate
What’s at Stake in the Bitcoin Block Size Debate
What Bitcoin Is and How It Works
John Light
Feb 9
Strange Democracy
Strange Democracy
I recently had a conversation with a friend who runs a leadership programme for high school kids. Suffering from generational dissonance…
Andy Tudhope
Nov 21, 2015
Things I Think I Know about Blockchains, Public and Private
Things I Think I Know about Blockchains, Public and Private
Things I Think I Know About Blockchains, Public and Federated
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Usage and support of blockchains will naturally tend towards a power law…
Ryan Shea
Nov 1, 2015
Trust Machine: Global & Federated Blockchains
Trust Machine: Global & Federated Blockchains
The Economist has a cover story on how Bitcoin itself may or may not survive but blockchain, the underlying trust technology, is the real…
Muneeb Ali
Nov 1, 2015
The Blockchain is a Journal
The Blockchain is a Journal
One way to think of the blockchain is as a journal or diary shared by people all over the world. The journal starts out empty, but then…
Ryan Shea
Oct 5, 2015
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