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…

A Comparison Of Distributed Ledgers For Tokenization

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)…

Case Study: BigMart

BigMart (fictional) has announced they are launching a project to track the provenance of food that they sell in their stores — from farm and feedlot through distributors all the way to the individual retail outlet. To do this, they’ve implemented a private blockchain within their ecosystem of…

Case Study: EcommerceCoin

EcommerceCoin (fictional) has launched a stablecoin, on the Stellar blockchain, to be used in ecommerce and physical retail. Retailers are excited to use the coin because of low transaction fees, compared to major credit cards. Use of the coin also creates significant marketing and…

Case Study: StorageTokenIO

StorageTokenIO (fictional) has announced they are launching a project to provide inexpensive data storage by taking advantage of the vast amount of unused hard disk space in corporate and consumer devices. They are launching a new coin, called StorageToken, that will be earned by…