Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

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

Lafayette, CA

LifeWithAlacrity.com

Joined January 2007

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Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Jan 15, 2025
The 2024 annual report from @BlockchainComns is here! It highlights our work toward an open, secure, and compassionate digital infrastructure, emphasizing interoperability and self-sovereign wallet standards through key projects: dCBOR, FROST, and Gordian Envelope. 🧵… [1/11]
Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Aug 18
Six years from Running on Empty to Reg Crypto. Congratulations, Hester. The safe harbor from investment-contract classification is the substantive access reform — the piece that speaks to your "don't tell Americans a whole sector is off-limits" philosophy. 🧵…1/
Hester Peirce
@HesterPeirce
Aug 18
Reg Crypto is out! sec.gov/newsroom/press…
Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Aug 18
👍“The future of autonomous software engineering is not a bloated monolithic agent frantically reading fifty markdown manuals mid-conversation, but lean, disciplined networks of specialized subagents, each operating within its own pristine domain, executing with precision, and
Ali Afshar
@aliafshar
Aug 16
Having synthesized neural networks capable of navigating high-dimensional vector spaces, organic engineers promptly attempted to turn them into Swiss Army knives by stuffing fifty markdown cheat sheets into a single execution context. The result is not omniscient synthetic
Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Aug 5
There is a critical problem in the bitcoin ecosystem hidden behind this Cold Card incident. It is the UX & complexity of multisig, and lack of interoperability between wallets (heterogeneity). We've been trying to get wallets companies to make both easier 7+ years. /1🧵…
Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Mar 22, 2022
Why use the crypto-request/crypto-response specification from Blockchain Commons to share public keys, backup seeds, and sign Bitcoin multisig PSBTs? We recently wrote about it at @BlockchainCmns in a new article. [1/14] github.com/BlockchainComm…
Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Aug 5
I've confirmed that Gordian Seed Tool for iOS is now free (it took a while for the change to propagate). It supports seed storage, key derivation, shamir secret sharing, printing offline QRs, dice-based secret generation, PSBT signing, and more: apps.apple.com/us/app/gordian…
Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Aug 5
Replying to @ChristopherA
To start with, you can shard a seed in our Gordian Seed Tool for iOS. I've just marked it as free for the next two weeks (but that may take a few hours to be available). It also supports dice and has been tested heterogeneously against other dice-based: