Nick Ris@nickris

founder MISSION, bringing digital trust to the world - wandering/wondering brit

Joined April 2008
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Nick Ris retweeted
jack
@jack
Jul 21
we're launching BUZZ! a new groupchat platform for teams of people and agents of all sizes, built to reduce our dependency on slack and github. model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source. 🐝 buzz.xyz

Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place.

Come test the early stages with us.

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I have a horrible sneaking feeling we forgot about David Blaine in a perspex box somewhere
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Nick Ris retweeted
Dock Labs@dock_labs
21 May 2024
Decentralized Reusable ID is a significant technological breakthrough, yet it's still surrounded by confusion. In our recent live roundtable, top experts—@EmLindley, @james_monaghan, and @NickRis—joined us to demystify this powerful technology. Watch: piped.video/I9tlM-dTHW0
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I am often asked whether SSI, verifiable credentials or identity wallets are a good fit for a particular use case, and my answer is usually "it depends on which benefits of this technology are relevant in this situation". Here's a handy cheat sheet 🧵.
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A thread about our depraved healthcare system, and a plea. In 2021, my friend Carole was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer. A single parent with two kids, she had just turned 43. In 2017, she had watched her brother Chris die of the same cancer. He too was in his 40s.
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Nick Ris retweeted
b3ta@b3ta
2 Sep 2023
Congratulations to @TheWeebl for 20 years of Badger Badger Badger b3ta.com/links/20_Years_of_B…

20 Years of Badgers

Posting on b3ta first as this is where it all started. hope you enjoy it.

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Rate limiting views 🤣🤣🤣
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Genuinely surprised to find out Yahoo is still in business
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Nick Ris retweeted
LeBron James
@KingJames
31 Mar 2023
Welp guess my blue ✔️ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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cutest captcha yet.. although they missed a trick not doing a st patricks day theme
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#FAIL
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Can Pay, Won’t Pay. It’s none of Facebook’s business who I am (they are entitled to know _what_ I am, but that’s different story.
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G’night Maxi. Cheers for the tunes. bbc.com/news/entertainment-a…

Faithless lead singer Maxi Jazz dies aged 65

The dance musician, who was best known for singles including Insomnia and We Come 1, died on Friday.

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In least surprising news ever.. company that adopts killer B2C sales techniques to sell a shit product fails…
Luke Sophinos
@lukesophinos
21 Dec 2022
A high flying mattress company turned down a $1B acquisition. 2 years later it lost 75% of it's value and sold to private equity. The rise & fall of Casper Mattress 👇
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I'm too old for this shit
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Nick Ris retweeted
Chairman
@WSBChairman
23 Nov 2022
Not only has the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman, not been arrested for stealing billions of dollars, but he is speaking at a @nytimes business summit. The justice system is so broken.
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Nick Ris retweeted
tae kim
@firstadopter
9 Nov 2022
This reads like a parody, but it’s on the Sequoia website. What a joke sequoiacap.com/article/sam-b…
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The 2022 #Hyperledger Global Forum is underway and I anticipate a lot of great discussion about #SSI, #decentralizedidentity, #HyperledgerIndy, and #HyperledgerAries. For a preview, see this post just published by @dhh1128 (Daniel Hardman). daniel-hardman.medium.com/re…

Response to Kaliya’s “Being Real” Post

A notable critique of Hyperledger Indy, Hyperledger Aries, and AnonCreds was published by Kaliya Young (Identity Woman) last week. The post…

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Thank you Ma’am, for everything.
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