Like in many tech segments, there's usually an early mover that establishes an advantage in some category that, in hindsight fills such an obvious need. After seizing that advantage, Bitwave 🌊 continues to iterate on both it's thought leadership (in the form of advice to

At #NFTNYC2024, I interviewed Marc Baumann (Marc Baumann 🌔). I'm a big fan of Marc's work. He does some of the best in-depth analyses of big brand #NFT projects. In this interview, he talks about how corporate adoption is already moving beyond the idea of collectibles #blockchain

Watch as lead author of the ERC-721 NFT standard, William Entriken, chats with Blockchain Journal's David Berlind about his prediction that NFTs will melt into the fabric of our everyday lives Link to full transcript + podcasts: bit.ly/3UisZl2 #Web3 #NFT #blockchain #crypto

What's the history and vision behind #NFTs (non-fungible tokens)? Watch this video w/ William Entriken (Will Entriken) from #NFTNYC. Will is the lead author of the #ERC721 spec; the #Ethereum NFT standard. He shares the history, his role, and the future of NFTs. Big thanks to

Back in 2022, while covering the Consensus2024 conference in Austin, I saw Raakhee talk about this interesting concept that #NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are the new web browser #cookie. 2 years later, the topic is even more relevant given how cookies are now getting

This quote about #blockchain from the linked (below) @API3DAO paper (the #dAPI guys) is one of the better ones. Not "great" IMHO, because it leaves out some important benefits of #decentralization (and elimination of trusted parties is a terrible icebreaker). But "censorship"

When I first interviewed Deloitte's Michael Bondar in '23 and he referred to #blockchain as a general purpose trust machine, I walked away thinking "Wait! What?!!!" Disintermediating untrustworthy banks with a new set of financial "rails" (aka #crypto) is what comes to

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Breach of LastPass allegedly led to compromises of #crypto wallets (and subsequent theft of tokens) 🥲 paymentsecurity.io/crypto-roundup…

I've returned to ZDNET to do some writing and here's my first contribution. HINT: According to the lawyers, if you plan to travel throuugh a US point-of-entry, you might want to disable your #biometrics. zdnet.com/article/worrie…

Microsoft has disqualified many Windows 10 PCs from being upgraded to Windows 11. Microsoft is also discontinuing support for Windows 10 this October. ed bott has the workaround on ZDNET zdnet.com/article/how-to…

I never considered the intersection of #Agentic #AI , credential managment (aka "password management"), and #APIs until I reported on this 1Password news for ZDNET zdnet.com/article/1passw…

There are many posts on the web about how #Passkeys are a failure. Yes, the road to passkeys (and maybe a #passwordless future) is littered with potholes. But, in this ZDNET article, I'm "glass half-full" for now zdnet.com/article/why-th…

The big idea behind #passkeys is to get rid of passwords. That idea alone is scary to a lot of people. A lot of education is going to be necessary. If we screw the story up, it will only delay adoption. This ZDNET article gives an example #security zdnet.com/article/if-we-…

While I appreciate this author's enthusiasm for #passkeys, he & Forbes are misinforming you in saying that passkeys are a form of account authentication linked to the security hardware on your device. Yes, they *can* be. But in most cases, they won't be forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm…

Today is #WorldPasswordDay. I wrote up my top 10 current tips for working with #passkeys right now (even though the passkey ecosystem isn't 100% ready for primetime) Props to ZDNET's Jason Hiner for pushing me to write it and to David Grober for a great edit zdnet.com/article/10-pas…

With polymorphic extensions, SquareX has exposed how the permissions process for browser extensions is pretty much useless. Google (who didn't respond to my inquiries) needs to start over with how such permissions are granted and managed zdnet.com/article/your-p…

Starting today, Microsoft's Authenticator no longer supports passwords. But all the coverage of this change claims that Authenticator still manages #Passkeys. As it turns out, that's only in certain edge cases. Here's the scoop: zdnet.com/article/micros…