BTCR is the grand-daddy of DID Methods. Created by Kim Duffy, Christopher Allen, Ryan Grant, and Dan Pape, it uses the bitcoin ledger to create DIDs without requiring any changes to bitcoin. We talk with the creators to get the scoop on BTCR and what’s next. 

https://diddirectory.com/btcr 

References

• A Rubric for Decentralization of DID Methods  
  • https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/final-documents/decentralization-rubric.pdf
• Bech32 
  • https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bech32
• Bitcoin Core D
  • https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin 
• BTCR DID Method
  • https://w3c-ccg.github.io/didm-btcr/
• BTCR implementation
  • https://github.com/SpidChain/spidchain-btcr 
• BTCR Playground 
  • https://weboftrustinfo.github.io/btcr-tx-playground.github.io/
• DID:doge
  • https://github.com/spruceid/did-doge 
• DID Methods
  • https://w3c.github.io/did-spec-registries/#did-methods
• DID Method Rubric v1.0
  • https://w3c.github.io/did-rubric/
• JSON-LD libraries
  • https://github.com/dcdpr/jsonld-cpp 
  • https://github.com/digitalbazaar/jsonld.js 
• Legendary Requirements 
  • http://legreq.com/
• Lib Bech 32
  • https://github.com/dcdpr/libbech32 
  • https://github.com/dcdpr/libbech32-java 
• Lib Tx Ref
  • https://github.com/dcdpr/libtxref-java 
  • https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/txref-conversion-js
  • https://github.com/dcdpr/libtxref-java
  • https://github.com/dcdpr/libtxref 
• Pacific Pug Rescue
  • http://www.pacificpugrescue.org/ 
• RWOT/Rebooting The Web Of Trust
  • https://www.weboftrust.info/ 
• RWOT2 New York 
  • https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot2-id2020 
• RWOT4 Paris 
  • https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot4-paris 
• W3C Credentials Community Group
  • https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/

Hosts: Joe Andrieu, Eric Schuh, and Erica Connell

Producer: Erica Connell

Executive Producer: Joe Andrieu

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