Re: Introduction - Manu Sporny

On 7 August 2016 at 20:35, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> Hi Blockchainers,
>
> Having seen Marta's excellent intro email, I thought that it might be
> good to say hi to this community and introduce some of the work my
> organization (Digital Bazaar) is doing in this space.
>
> My name is Manu Sporny, I'm one of the founders of Digital Bazaar and
> its current CEO. Our company has been involved with W3C for the past
> decade or so. We build standards-based turn-key solutions for our
> customers that are in the payments and identity space.
>
> We are the company that founded the Web Payments Community Group (over 5
> years ago), founded the Credentials Community Group, and I have
> also chaired Working Groups and helped create, edit, and get a few
> standards (RDFa, JSON-LD, HTML5+RDFa, etc.) through the W3C process.
>
> Our company is currently heavily involved in the Web Payments Interest
> and Working Groups, Credentials Community Groups, Verifiable Claims
> work, and expects that we may become more deeply involved in this group
> as well.
>
> I already know a good chunk of you in this group and have a good working
> relationship with each. For the rest, I look forward to working with
> this community and helping standardize the bits that make sense over the
> next several years.
>

Welcome!

Your work in this space continues to be phenomenal, and very much under
represented.

Would you be interested in teaming up with a group of enthusiastic block
chainers to in order to spread this technology to something more of a proof
of concept, eg. backed by a real crypto currency?

I think with the right team working together, there would be an opportunity
to innovate in the crypto currency space with a web scale offering (some
that imho is sorely needed), and also potentially attract investment.


>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> JSON-LD Best Practice: Context Caching
> https://manu.sporny.org/2016/json-ld-context-caching/
>
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