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You feel a sense of disgust when your mum or spouse looking into your phone, but why is it that it's alright for internet companies or your country to do the same?

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) platforms are emerging from the decentralization movement citing how they will replace the traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) model where Certificate Authorities (CAs) are in charge of controlling the identities, but that will not be the case unless our society becomes more egalitarian. Until then, a hybrid of centralized and decentralized identity systems that are localized shall prevail.

You’ve probably read many articles about ditching the $5 coffee, getting the right brokerage, bank, utility account, etc, and buying the right stocks. This article will tell you if you want to reach financial independence, ignore those articles.

Following the discussion on how Zero-knowledge Proof (ZKP) can be used in the field of civic technologies (CivicTech) and specifically how it can be used by different NGOs to coordinate food distribution to the food insecured, I’ve embarked on creating a demo application to showcase how it can be done as part of my fellowship with RadicalXChange Foundation.

With any task, how to make things work concerned me the most. Learning to do test driven development (TDD) comes a long way to help me make sure the code works as I intended - for both positive and negative examples. However, as I come across the "Representable/Valid Principle" introduced in James Koppel's Advanced Software Design Web Course, I found out that I can write code that that not just does the right thing but also can't do the wrong thing.

Multisig wallets presents a way for different participants to issue a transaction on the blockchain but is that the only way? In this article I explore various options to represent the signalling of the intent for a transaction that requires more than one participant to agree on.