About
Some friends and I were exploring blockers to cryptocurrency being accessible and identified that “recovery” (of secrets) was perhaps the number 1 challenge.
In 2017 I’d messed around with Shamir’s secret sharing, and we noticed that we could use this concept in concert with a social network in order to safely store backups. Here’s some art I made describing the process:
We designed a protocol, wrote a specification, and implemented a prototype in Scuttlebutt (a social p2p/ local-first social network).
We presented our work at DevCon 4 and this led to grants from the Ethereum Foundation, further iterations on protocol, user-research, partnership with Briar, a java implementation and more.
Technical
| Library | Description |
|---|---|
| scuttle-dark-crystal | Raw function for running Dark Crystal over Scuttlebutt |
| patchbay-dard-crystal | plugin for Patchbay (a Scuttlebutt client) |