Author Archives: Stephen Wilson

Identerati: disrupt yourselves!

I closed my Identiverse 2022 keynote speech with an observation and a plea: “If zero...

Make data better: on the Optus breach

Data is not actually the problem with the Optus breach; it’s the quality of the...

Video: Trust in the post-identity world (Identiverse closing keynote)

I gave a mainstage keynote speech on the closing day of the Identiverse 2022 conference....

Video: What will we learn from the market failure of digital identity?

This is the first of my two presentations at the Identiverse 2022 conference held in Denver,...

Blockchain’s energy consumption is literally about power

Why is blockchain the way it is? Why should any storage system — no matter...

Why plastic cards are a model for verifiable credentials as a service

Or Everything that’s Old is New again. In the next few years, the soaring demand...

“Tap and Prove” any important facts and figures

We should be able to “Tap and Prove” any important facts and figures about ourselves...

How the language and metaphors of identity mislead us

It’s a grave problem that we identity pros can be speaking at cross purposes. The...

On sovereignty and identity

Self-Sovereign Identity is a hot mix of politics and technology. SSI embodies a false intuition...

Blockchain consensus: creating order out of chaos

Blockchain’s algorithms for public consensus literally create order out of chaos, but are they a...