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Re:Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Inte... by deft on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:18PM (#27479682)
This has already been solved, its called Public-key cryptography. Ethereum gave everyone a key, but usability issues have stifled making that useful offchain. ENS isn't needed.
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Re:Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Inte... by bcmillegan on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:35PM (#27480197)
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 isn't needed strictly speaking, but highly useful to make everything human-friendly. It's like saying DNS isn't useful because you can just input a website's IP address.

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