This is the personal blog of Daniel Buchner, a product designer, software engineer, and open source developer. Currently I work at Gemini on various products.

Where my career has taken me:

• Block - Head of Decentralized Identity
• Microsoft - Worked on Edge browser, created the Decentralized Identity group (Entra Verified ID)
• Mozilla - Led the Developer Ecosystem team, Web standards development

Featured

• Identity Is the Dark Matter & Energy of Our World

  Published: 25 Jan, 2018 |  at  11:44 AM

  Exploring identity as a cosmological analog - proposing that like dark matter and energy in the universe, identity forms the vast unseen infrastructure that powers all our daily interactions.

• Scaling Decentralized Apps & Services via Blockchain-based Identity Indirection

  Published: 12 Jul, 2016 |  at  04:02 PM

  Exploring how blockchain-based identity indirection can address the scalability challenges of decentralized applications and services while maintaining consensus guarantees.

• S(GH)PA: The Single-Page App Hack for GitHub Pages

  Published: 13 May, 2016 |  at  09:41 AM

  A clever hack to enable single-page app routing on GitHub Pages by leveraging the 404.html file and preserving SEO-friendly status codes for crawlers.

Recent Posts

• Demythstifying Web Components

  Published: 26 Aug, 2016 |  at  03:58 PM

  Dispelling common myths and FUD about Web Components by clarifying what they actually are - encapsulated, declarative, custom elements that enable reusable, interoperable functionality.

• Recapping the W3C Blockchain Standardization Workshop @ MIT

  Published: 1 Jul, 2016 |  at  01:52 PM

  A recap of the W3C blockchain workshop at MIT discussing potential Web standards for blockchain technology, particularly focusing on blockchain-based identity authentication.

• The Nickelback Persistence Conjecture

  Published: 25 May, 2016 |  at  09:57 AM

  Debunking the fallacious arguments about data persistence in decentralized systems and why economic incentives in distributed networks are more robust than critics claim.

• The Web Beyond: How blockchain identity will transform our world

  Published: 14 Apr, 2016 |  at  12:32 PM

  A vision of how blockchain-based identity systems could revolutionize daily life through seamless, secure, and interoperable digital interactions across all devices and services.