TABConf 7, held October 13-16, 2025, is a technical Bitcoin conference, meant to ensure that the Technical Accessible Bitcoin Community is Open source, Novel, and Fun (TABCONF!). Their mission is:
To create a forum for protocol and application developers to collaborate, debate, and innovate on Bitcoin.
Christopher Allen was invited to support a new decentralized identity track at TABConf 7 and made two presentations, one on “Beyond Bitcoin: Engineering Exodus Protocols for Coordination & Identity” and one on the “Sad State of Decentralized Identity (and What To Do About It)”.
Media & Slides
Beyond Bitcoin:
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Sad State:
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Beyond Bitcoin: Five Patterns to Create an Exodus Protocol
- Operate Without External Dependencies
- Encode Rules in Mathematics, Not Policy
- Make Constraints Load-Bearing
- Preserve Exit Through Portability
- Work Offline and Across Time
The Sad State: Why Decentralized Identity is Losing
- Technical standards met geopolitical reality
- Corporate capture of “decentralization”
- Builder’s Dilemma: pure but irrelevant vs. adopted but compromised
See the slides for more!
For More on Beyond Bitcoin
- Musings of Trust Architect Article (Forthcoming)