Twitter’s decentralized social network project finally has a leader
Image: Bluesky Bluesky, the Twitter-funded effort to create a decentralized social network standard, has finally found a project lead - the creator of Happening, Jay Graber. Bluesky and Graber have also begun hiring for the project's first developers, meaning the slowly gestating project might finally become a bit less blue sky" and a bit more real.
Besides experience leading the work on Happening's event organizing features, Graber worked on Zcash, a cryptocurrency created by the Electric Coin Company that uses zero-knowledge cryptography to secure transactions. Graber was also one of the authors of a report Bluesky published in January detailing its research into decentralized web systems.
I'm excited to announce that I'll be leading @bluesky, an...