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Alan Warms in ChainFront

Dec 4, 2017

On Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

Having spent the last year or so digging deep into Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Crypto in general, thought it would be a good time to put down my thoughts on the current hype.

Bitcoin is for real:

Alan Warms in ChainFront

Nov 26, 2018

Mobile number for account recovery is NOT secure, under any circumstances. Don’t use.

TL;DR : Underpinning much of the recovery and two-factor authentication options today are SMS/texts to your mobile phone number. These options rest on the “security” that the carriers…

Darryl Anderson in ChainFront

Jun 28, 2018

A Comparison Of Distributed Ledgers For Tokenization

Alan Warms in ChainFront

Oct 24, 2018

Introducing ChainFront

APIs for centralized private key management, transaction signing, and multi-factor authentication

Over the summer, we wrote a post on the difficulties of getting mainstream users to the blockchain. In keeping with our vision to help developers create usable and…

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Alan Warms in ChainFront

Jul 2, 2018

Let’s Stop Kidding Ourselves — Little Old Lady in Peoria Is Never KNOWINGLY Going To Use a 64 character Hexadecimal Key

A bitcoin private key is 64 hexadecimal characters. It looks like this (SAMPLE DO NOT USE)…

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Alan Warms in ChainFront

Jan 12, 2018

In my last post in December, I made the point that the vast majority of ICOs were extremely risky and unlikely to result in real businesses underlying the associated blockchain and token. Specifically, I raised the following requirements for the tokens to have real value:

Alan Warms in ChainFront

Sep 16, 2019

ChainFront is now Open Source

We launched ChainFront in October of last year to solve one of the largest usability issues for end users of crypto: how to deal with private keys. Expecting mainstream consumers to keep a written backup of either a 36 character hexadecimal string or a 12 word passphrase…

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Alan Warms in ChainFront

Apr 22, 2019

ChainFront Data Sheet

ChainFront was founded in May 2018 by Alan Warms and Darryl Anderson to create software to enable blockchain-based applications. During a blockchain consulting engagement for a top 10 ecommerce company, Warms and Anderson realized that mainstream end-users and corporations would never…

Alan Warms in ChainFront

Dec 13, 2018

ChainFront Developers is Now Live!

The ChainFront Developers site is now live at https://developers.chainfront.io. Developers can go there to register, create accounts, and get instructions on how to create their API key. The ChainFront API documentation also includes examples of code and a Getting…

Alan Warms in ChainFront

Nov 6, 2018

“Managing One’s Own Bank; Managing One’s Own Security”: Reactions to UnChained Podcast on 10-Year Anniversary of Bitcoin White Paper

I am avid listener of the UnChained podcast, hosted by Laura Shin. Not only are there lively informative…

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On Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

Mobile number for account recovery is NOT secure, under any circumstances. Don’t use.

A Comparison Of Distributed Ledgers For Tokenization

Introducing ChainFront

Let’s Stop Kidding Ourselves — Little Old Lady in Peoria Is Never KNOWINGLY Going To Use a 64 character Hexadecimal Key

Corporate ICOs Are Coming

ChainFront is now Open Source

ChainFront Data Sheet

ChainFront Developers is Now Live!

“Managing One’s Own Bank; Managing One’s Own Security”: Reactions to UnChained Podcast on 10-Year Anniversary of Bitcoin White Paper