Good thing the central claims of the blog post are false. I explained in my top level comment.
The central criticism of ENS in this blog post - that the multisig (in the past) or the DAO (now) could take away your .ETH name - is not true. No one has the ability to take a .ETH name away from someone. The DAO…
Yep. Also note that ENS is a generic naming system, not just .eth names. You can also import in DNS names you already use, e.g. I own brantly.xyz on DNS and also imported it into to ENS:…
Yes, public key cryptography is not new. What's new is that crypto incentives has spurred the creation of a highly competitive industry to improve private key management, and incentives people to get and manage one. ENS…
It does not cost $120/yr. ENS protocol fees are: - unlimited subdomains, free - importing DNS name into ENS, free - for .eth names, based on length: 3 characters, $640/yr; 4 ch, $160/yr; +5 ch, $5/yr For .eth names, you…
FYI, you can still have that exact kind of service with Ethereum accounts, some wallets offer that. It's improving all the time, but there are already and will continue to be many offerings on how to manage an Ethereum…
A decentralized naming system that solves what was previously thought to be an unsolvable computer science problem (Zooko's Triangle) that's open source and self-running, and where funds (that are raised with a minimum…
> There were loads of vendor-neutral identity ideas that all fell flat because nobody wants to sign up just for an identity. Yep, I agree SSO by itself isn't enough of an incentive to use something. A key part of the…
> So the Director of Operations of ENS Domains says Ethereum has solved an extremely solved problem and one of the cornerstones of that solution is... wait for it... ENS Domains. Gotcha. Yep. Note that ENS is an open…
Hey! Author of the thread here. Thanks for your comments! > This is an extremely solved problem. Not with the properties of Sign-In with Ethereum (SIE), which is single, user generated authentication credentials, a…
Good thing the central claims of the blog post are false. I explained in my top level comment.
The central criticism of ENS in this blog post - that the multisig (in the past) or the DAO (now) could take away your .ETH name - is not true. No one has the ability to take a .ETH name away from someone. The DAO…
Yep. Also note that ENS is a generic naming system, not just .eth names. You can also import in DNS names you already use, e.g. I own brantly.xyz on DNS and also imported it into to ENS:…
Yes, public key cryptography is not new. What's new is that crypto incentives has spurred the creation of a highly competitive industry to improve private key management, and incentives people to get and manage one. ENS…
It does not cost $120/yr. ENS protocol fees are: - unlimited subdomains, free - importing DNS name into ENS, free - for .eth names, based on length: 3 characters, $640/yr; 4 ch, $160/yr; +5 ch, $5/yr For .eth names, you…
FYI, you can still have that exact kind of service with Ethereum accounts, some wallets offer that. It's improving all the time, but there are already and will continue to be many offerings on how to manage an Ethereum…
A decentralized naming system that solves what was previously thought to be an unsolvable computer science problem (Zooko's Triangle) that's open source and self-running, and where funds (that are raised with a minimum…
> There were loads of vendor-neutral identity ideas that all fell flat because nobody wants to sign up just for an identity. Yep, I agree SSO by itself isn't enough of an incentive to use something. A key part of the…
> So the Director of Operations of ENS Domains says Ethereum has solved an extremely solved problem and one of the cornerstones of that solution is... wait for it... ENS Domains. Gotcha. Yep. Note that ENS is an open…
Hey! Author of the thread here. Thanks for your comments! > This is an extremely solved problem. Not with the properties of Sign-In with Ethereum (SIE), which is single, user generated authentication credentials, a…
Hey! Author of the thread here. Thanks for your comments! > This is an extremely solved problem. Not with the properties of Sign-In with Ethereum (SIE), which is single, user generated authentication credentials, a…