Offline-verifiable blockchain-notarized certificates or badges

[Bryan Ford]

Dear Open Badges folks,

I just published a blog post that might be of relevance to anyone interested in supporting blockchain-notarized Open Badges (e.g., via Blockcerts) in the future, and would like those blockchain-notarized badges to be verifiable offline or peer-to-peer while preserving the decentralized security (no single point of failure/compromise) of the blockchain model:

  How Do You Know It's On the Blockchain? With a SkipChain.

  https://bford.github.io/2017/08/01/skipchain/

Hope you find it relevant and interesting, and any feedback/discussion (here or by E-mail) is always welcome!

Thanks

Bryan

[Nate Otto]

Hey, Bryan --- have you connected with the developers working on the blockcerts tools and proposed extension to Open Badges yet?

Nate Otto

Director, Open Badges, Concentric Sky

concentricsky.com