Re: [bitcoin-dev] A DNS-like decentralized mapping for wallet addresses?

2017-12-19 Thread Hampus Sjöberg via bitcoin-dev
ev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> > *Sent:* Monday, 18 December 2017 10:26 PM > *To:* Douglas Roark; Bitcoin Protocol Discussion > *Subject:* Re: [bitcoin-dev] A DNS-like decentralized mapping for wallet > addresses? > > Have you thought about combining this with BIP-47?

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A DNS-like decentralized mapping for wallet addresses?

2017-12-18 Thread Sjors Provoost via bitcoin-dev
Have you thought about combining this with BIP-47? You could associate payment codes with email via DNS. It would be nice if there was a way to get rid of the announcement transaction in BIP-47 and establish a shared secret out of bound. That would simplify things, at the cost of an additional

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A DNS-like decentralized mapping for wallet addresses?

2017-12-02 Thread Antonis Anastasiadis via bitcoin-dev
Also check the Open Alias project. It's based on DNS+DNSSEC but it offers the usability feature you mention (nice addresses). https://openalias.org/ On 01/12/2017 00:20, mandar mulherkar via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Hello,  > > I am new, so apologies if this has been asked before. > > Here are a few

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A DNS-like decentralized mapping for wallet addresses?

2017-12-02 Thread Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste via bitcoin-dev
https://openalias.org/ 2017-12-01 4:15 GMT+01:00 Lucas Clemente Vella via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>: > The original altcoin, Namecoin, aimed a building a bitcoin-like, > blockchain based decentralized DNS system. Unfortunately it didn't catch, > but it would be the

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A DNS-like decentralized mapping for wallet addresses?

2017-12-02 Thread CANNON via bitcoin-dev
On 12/01/2017 03:15 AM, Lucas Clemente Vella via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Unfortunately it didn't catch, but it would Interesting, I just mentioned namecoin literally seconds before this email arrived. Saying "it did not catch" is not accurate I'd say. It still works great, and namecoin has

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A DNS-like decentralized mapping for wallet addresses?

2017-12-02 Thread CANNON via bitcoin-dev
On 11/30/2017 10:20 PM, mandar mulherkar via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Hello, > > I am new, so apologies if this has been asked before. > > Here are a few questions to start with - > > I was wondering in terms of mass adoption, instead of long wallet > addresses, maybe there should be a DNS-like

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A DNS-like decentralized mapping for wallet addresses?

2017-11-30 Thread Douglas Roark via bitcoin-dev
On 2017/11/30 14:20, mandar mulherkar via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I was wondering in terms of mass adoption, instead of long wallet > addresses, maybe there should be a DNS-like decentralized mapping > service to provide a user@crypto address? A few years ago, I was part of an effort with Armory and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] A DNS-like decentralized mapping for wallet addresses?

2017-11-30 Thread Justin Newton via bitcoin-dev
https://www.walletnames.com Based on a standard that can support blockchain based or traditional ICANN DNS. On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 6:20 AM, mandar mulherkar via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I am new, so apologies if this has been asked before. > >