Michael Boyd

cofounder of @trinsic_id

[Riley Hughes 🛴 @rileyphughes]

Thrilled to launch the first identity acceptance network, with over 60M end-users 🚀 

With CLEAR, Yoti, Airside (Entrust), Dentity, Argos, Parallel Markets, and a dozen other world-class IDV companies as founding partners

ID acceptance is key infra for an AI-powered future 👇

[Trinsic @trinsic_id]

Today Trinsic is launching the first identity acceptance network in partnership with dozens of world-class identity providers including @Clear, @getyoti, @enterIDVerse, @AirsideHQ an Entrust Company, and @dentityme.

Businesses can use Trinsic to verify 60,800,000 people 10x faster than a from-scratch identity verification, while also reducing fraud.

[parth @parth220]

Last night, I was targeted for a sophisticated phishing attack on my Apple ID.

This was a high effort concentrated attempt at me.

Other founders are being targeted by the same group/attack, so I’m sharing what happened for visibility.

🧵 Here’s how it went down:

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

‼️BREAKTHROUGH speedup up quantum factorisation with Shor algorithm! Reducing requirements. Instead of 2n (logical) qubits, n/2 needed. What does this mean? To break the (today very strong) RSA-2048 cipher, only 1700 qubits are needed instead of ~5000. https://t.co/ctJLsjB1DP

[DHH @dhh]

This is somehow more mind-blowing to me than the image generation stuff. I just tested it with three different sound prompts, including a Danish rap, and they were all imminently passable, if not outright good. The future sounds awesome. https://t.co/QCWHTIvPfO

[Riley Hughes 🛴 @rileyphughes]

Excited to launch Trinsic Connect🎉🚀

1-click identity verification powered by 1. Our reusable ID platform 2. Partnerships with world-class IDVs 3. Passkeys

After 6 years in identity, this may be best UX of any verifiable credential solution I've seen. Here’s how it works 👇

[Michael Boyd @michael_boyd_]

I understood his every syllable more deeply than you can imagine

[Alex Cabrero @KSL_AlexCabrero]

This may be my best interview ever. I asked this guy who was snowboarding at @BrightonResort today how the powder snow was at the top. The full story runs tonight on @KSL5TV at 6. #ksltv #kapowblosh

[Sam Goto @samuelgoto]

I'll never stop working until I make "login with olive garden" to websites a reality!!! :)

[Michael Boyd @michael_boyd_]

@patriciamou_ How do you like the chair? I've been interested in trying a cross-legged chair

[Michael Boyd @michael_boyd_]

@nateliason I'd submit 'placefulness' is the defining attribute of a healthy mindfulness. Esp for people prone to excessive introspection, to be aware of where one is in space and time creates more groundedness than attempt at any deeper insight.

[Michael Boyd @michael_boyd_]

@amix3k thank you for continuing to ship updates to @todoist! Love the latest feature to track task lengths. I'm still a happy user more than 5 years in.

[Michael Boyd @michael_boyd_]

@LLeifermann @trinsic_id We support did:ion and supported did:indy for the past 5 years - we found did:web is easiest to understand and use for app builders to make things people want. It's meant to be a bridge to the more decentralized did methods with time

[Michael Boyd @michael_boyd_]

If you haven't subscribed to this newsletter yet and are working on verifiable credentials - I highly recommend!

[Michael Boyd @michael_boyd_]

@vibronet Vittorio, we've only met a few times but I've always appreciated your positivity, humor, and clear-headed viewpoints on all sorts of topics. Thank you for all of your contributions to our field. We'll all be keeping you in our thoughts over here.

[Phil Windley @windley]

If you’ve been wondering about WorldCoin and the Orb, this I’d an excellent thread 🧵 on the #privacy problems of a centralized, biometric database as a form of universal identifier.

Universal identifiers are a 20th century solution to identity that have no business in the digital world we’re creating. More in my book. 😉 https://t.co/x4i0jSX8kq

[Michael Boyd @michael_boyd_]

Reminds me of John Boyd's (the fighter pilot) advice. "In the military, you can either do something or be someone". Same exact thing applies to building foundational software products

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

What you focus on is what you improve. Most founders don’t build great products because they focus on things that aren’t important like investors, hiring, pitch decks, tweeting, press, their peers, etc. The best founders focus on their customers, their product, and their health. It’s easier to raise money, hang with startup investors, hire employees, sling decks, tweet, get on a Forbes list, and brag to your friends than it is to build a good product. Don’t let fear convince you to focus on what’s easy. Embrace the hard task of caring for your users and you maximize your chances of success. Understand that 90%+ of founders around you won’t follow this advice. Act like the average startup founder - get the average result. At YC our core goal is to help you strive for excellence and accomplish an extraordinary outcome.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Invented the accelerator. Probably the most successful female investor in Silicon Valley history. Wrote one of the best books about startups. But notable? Well, Wikipedia isn't so sure.

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Reddit launched on this day in 2005.

[Anastasia @AnastasiaU]

1/ I really worry about state power and identity.

Most Americans have only anecdotal experience of identity-based persecution, so it doesn’t feel real and there’s a sense of “it can’t happen here”.

[Riley Hughes 🛴 @rileyphughes]

Met with a CTO today who spent $x00k trying to make AnonCreds v1 (aca-py) work. The lack of scalability crippled their product, they had to throw it all away.

Nobody likes saying these things publicly, so we're left with just unsubstantiated marketing claims. Tis a shame, we really would all be better off with a bit more transparency.