Who is Brian Behlendorf?
Brian Behlendorf has dedicated his career to connecting and empowering the Free Software and Open Source community to solve hard technology problems and have a positive societal impact. He has assumed roles as a startup company founder, as an advisor to the U.S. government, as a board member at various non-profits and consortia, as a YGL and employee of the World Economic Forum, and as an investor. In 2020, he advanced the development of Hyperledger including launching a security tokenization platform, and creating a version with Chinese characteristics
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When discussing digital identity and secure transactions, he said “We’re moving towards much more self-managed, self-sovereign distributed digital identity, which would not have been possible without distributed ledger technology. I know that’s a big recurring theme here that we’re hearing, and now you’re seeing legitimization in the form of the central bank’s recognizing the technology inside. So I’m feeling a tipping point,”
Picture source: David Maung/Bloomberg, via Getty
When discussing digital identity and secure transactions, he said “We’re moving towards much more self-managed, self-sovereign distributed digital identity, which would not have been possible without distributed ledger technology. I know that’s a big recurring theme here that we’re hearing, and now you’re seeing legitimization in the form of the central bank’s recognizing the technology inside. So I’m feeling a tipping point,”
Picture source: David Maung/Bloomberg, via Getty