Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On

Re:Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Inte... by bcmillegan on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:24PM (#27480124)

> 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 source self-running protocol, i'm really the dir of operations of True Names LTD, the non-profit that de facto manages. Funds raised from .ETH name registrations/renewals don't even go to TNL but to an Ethereum community multisig (never spent, but plan is to use it for long-term ENS dev funding). I'm thinking about these things precisely because I'm working on the project.

>'Average' people aren't into crypto. They increasingly are

>Anyone want to try to explain asymmetric keypairs to mother-in-law who's in her 70s and needs help applying Windows patches?

You don't have to, just like you don't have to explain to her how TCP/IP works. You just have an account and it works.

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Re:Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Inte... by vmception on Friday June 11, 2021 @09:55PM (#27480689)

And TCP/IP wasn't the only protocol floating around until it was

So another point for not worrying about a mother-in-law in her 70s as various solutions get tried and more stacks get added to the stack

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