Hello community,

I have been working on open web architectures since the early ’90s, with a focus on security, privacy, cryptography, and standards. I collaborated with Netscape to develop SSL and co-authored the IETF TLS internet-draft that is now at the heart of secure commerce on the web. My recent focus is on engines of trust, specifically blockchains, digital assets, smart contracts, smart signatures, and decentralized self-sovereign identity. This work centers on digital civil liberties and human rights. I write about these topics on Twitter as @ChristopherA and sometimes address larger topics on my Life With Alacrity blog.

If you like my advocacy, my point-of-view, and my writing, as well as my travel to support local communities, my talks for those communities to bootstrap their own work on blockchain and digital identity, and my work with organizations such as Blockchain Commons, Rebooting the Web of Trust, and the W3C Credentials CG, I invite you to sponsor me.

Plus, it's a way to plug into an advocacy network that's not focused on the "big guys". Most of the large corporations have full-time people representing their desires in the various standards orgs, making it hard for small companies and lone developers to fully participate. I work to represent smaller developers in a vendor-neutral, platform-neutral way, helping us all to work together.

You can become a monthly patron on my GitHub Sponsor Page for as little as $5 a month; and your contributions will be multipled, as GitHub is matching the first $5,000! Alternatively, you can support my efforts by sponsoring Blockchain Commons and our vision of the open web via a monthly GitHub Sponsorship or with Bitcoin via our BTCPay contribution page, Bitcoin contribution.

But please don’t think of this as a transaction. It’s an opportunity to advance the open web, digital civil liberties, and human rights together. You get to plug into my various projects, and hopefully will find a way to actively contribute to the digital commons yourself. Let’s collaborate!

-- Christopher Allen <[email protected]>, Github: @ChristopherA, Twitter: @ChristopherA