3 days agoDecentralized Identity and Access Management with EthereumDIAM: it’s the obvious acronym for decentralized identity and access management, in which you take the computer software concept of IAM (identity and access management) … and make it decentralized. It turns out that using the Ethereum blockchain, it is a lot simpler than you would think. …Ethereum2 min read
Aug 11Was Ethereum Hacked by F2Pool?TL;DR: Was Ethereum Hacked by F2Pool? Yes, in the MIT sense of the word “hack”, and probably no, in the alarmist media sense. A distracting story about my local supermarket Every morning in my local supermarket, the staff go around with a sticker gun and slap “30% off” stickers on all the produce that is about to…Ethereum10 min read
Aug 4Do they really want our money?Last month I hauled Microsoft over the coals for their appalling user account system. Today it is the turn of Sony. Here’s a simple task — buy a €4.95 mod for a game on the #Playstation that your son really wants for his birthday. First — 🎧 sony .com or…Gaming3 min read
Aug 4Life (and Minecraft) aren’t fair or safeThe more I think about that press release from Microsoft, announcing that NFTs are banned from Minecraft, the more I think it stinks. …Nfts In Gaming6 min read
Jul 24Building a virtual world is hardTL;DR: if you want to walk among the Orthoverse land tokens, visit https://orthoverse.land But be aware that it is a … is there a letter in the Greek alphabet before “alpha”? No? Okay, be aware that it is a pre-alpha. Or even a pre-pre-alpha. Introduction I am one of those people…Metaverse7 min read
Jul 19The Weak Law of NFTsYuga Labs finally transferred ownership of the Bored Apes Yacht Club NFT contract to the zero address, closing the loophole that allowed them to mint as many apes as they wanted to, and finally returning balance and sanity to the world. …Nft11 min read
Jul 19People have been doing that for ages without a blockchain!Thirty-three years ago, when I started out as a mathematics undergraduate at Cambridge University, I met a second year physics student at a formal dinner. “What if the speed of light in a vacuum wasn’t constant?” I asked him. “It is though,” he replied. “Yeah, but what if it wasn’t…Blockchain6 min read
Jul 19Land Ahoy!Here’s a simple question: what does it mean to “own land” in a virtual environment? And here’s another one: what does it mean to “be somewhere” in a virtual environment? Let’s get real Owning land in the real world may seem simple. There’s some rock and dirt on our beloved blue-green planet poking…Metaverse7 min read
Jul 19Token AnalyticsVery few posts and articles on Medium are frank and open about money. If someone raises a hundred million dollars they’ll humble-brag about it, but I can’t remember the last time I saw someone presenting real bottom-line figures relating to day-to-day operations. On this social media site only one of…Nft9 min read
Jul 19Serving lawsuits by NFT is currently misguided(You can listen to this article here.) It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’ ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy One of the core precepts of…Law7 min read
