Joel Thorstensson

A New Funding Model for Open Source Open source has a funding problem, but the solution does not have to be closing the code.

Web3 means Freedom Software It's been over 10 years since the inception of Ethereum and the idea of web3 as a decentralized internet.

DIDs are a Dead End This article is a summary of my learnings from working with the Decentralized Identifiers standard, first at the uPort project where we designed the first DID method on Ethereum and contributed to the DID spec itself, and later as CTO…

Ethereum Websites will Redefine Internet Security 2025 August 26 When you visit a website there's an unspoken agreement that the publisher establishes with you: I’ll show you the right content — but I can change it whenever I want.

Introducing, Simple Page 2025 August 11 I'm excited to finally share a new way to publish websites on Ethereum!

Wrangling Dapp Data with CAR-files 2025 April 3 One of the challenges with building dapps on Ethereum is that there is no easy way to store, update, and read data.

Generative DID Maximalism 2023 May 8 Trustless interoperability between a large number of DID methods is impossible.

Incentivizing Machine Learning 2023 Feb 7 With the introduction of chatGPT and image models such as stable diffusion, the immense usefulness of machine learning have started to really sink into public consciousness.

An introduction to complex adaptive systems 2018 Feb 16 The world is an interesting place, and oftentimes when we learn more about it we also learn that we know so little about it.