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Three Digital Wallet Features You Never Knew You Needed

Three Digital Wallet Features You Never Knew You Needed

What sets one digital wallet apart from another and what are the key features you should look for before starting to store your personal data? Here, we discuss the three that we find the most important and explain why.By Sam Curren Between Apple Pay, Cash App, Google...

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How to Avoid Hacks like the MGM Grand

How to Avoid Hacks like the MGM Grand

Phishing attacks are all too common, and as a few casinos in Las Vegas are finding out, incredibly costly. As we continue to interact online, the only way to really stop these attacks is to have cryptographic confidence in who you are speaking with.By Sam Curren The...

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Why a Ledger?

Why a Ledger?

In a previous article we discussed what exactly a ledger does. In this article we will seek to understand why you would want to use one, and what your options are.By Sam Curren For a brief recap, the ledger offers four important elements when building a decentralized...

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Zero-Trust Practices with DIDComm

Zero-Trust Practices with DIDComm

Zero-Trust practices offer many benefits to the organizations that adopt them; in this piece we will explore how they work, why they are gaining in popularity, and how DIDComm can help enable them for you.By Sam Curren What is Zero Trust? Zero Trust is an approach to...

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What We Can Learn from the History of Digital Trust

What We Can Learn from the History of Digital Trust

Why was the internet built without an emphasis on identity or security? Why are we still trying to figure these out 50 years later? What role will AI play in the future of digital trust? Let's take a brief look at the history of the internet and see what we can...

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How Verifiable Credentials Can Empower Small Businesses

How Verifiable Credentials Can Empower Small Businesses

With growing interest in decentralized identity and verifiable credentials, it’s easy to think that they are something only big business or nation states can use. But even the smallest businesses can benefit from this technology. So the question we will answer: What...

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What Does The Ledger Do, Anyway?

What Does The Ledger Do, Anyway?

In the grand picture of decentralized identity, the leger plays a relatively boring role; it’s an important role however, and we’ll discuss why.By Sam Curren When exchanging verifiable credentials, there is information that needs to be known by all participants in the...

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What is DIDComm? (With Pictures!)

What is DIDComm? (With Pictures!)

The goal of DIDComm is summed up well by Daniel Hardman, CTO of Provenant:  “The goal is to help DIDs interact while retaining properties of DID methods. [The] Goal is not [to] use DIDs to authenticate people (though it enables this).”By Sam Curren DIDComm — short for...

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