<div dir="ltr">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 most logical choice for the name registry database.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-11-30 20:20 GMT-02:00 mandar mulherkar via bitcoin-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" target="_blank">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello, </div><div><br></div>I am new, so apologies if this has been asked before.<div><br><div>Here are a few questions to start with - </div><div><br><div>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?</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>This address translation can happen with confirmations from the network. So instead of providing a long string, or a QR code that needs an app, you simply type in a human readable address, and the wallet software converts it to a wallet address.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know where I can research this more - if there already is literature about this somewhere.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks!</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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