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Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by hanniabu on Saturday July 08, 2023 @08:03PM (#36650001)
With one Ethereum account you can have endless passwords that you don't need to remember
Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by jurynulifcation on Saturday July 08, 2023 @08:06PM (#36650015)
Which is a hilariously awful proposition, especially given how truly security unconscious most wallet applications actually are, along with the... questionable... security policies baked-in to the blockchain.
Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by hanniabu on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:19PM (#36650495)
If you think it's so vulnerable then go hack Ethereum, there's a $225B bounty waiting for you
Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by jurynulifcation on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:57PM (#36650756)
Nah, I'm not an unethical shyster that aims to steal from others. Couldn't you tell by how I'm not bought into crypto?
Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by rcxdude on Saturday July 08, 2023 @08:15PM (#36650073)
oh, like a password manager? or any number of other private key based authentication schemes that aren't attached to a distributed system which spends a lot of time, effort, and complexity, not to mention cost on ensuring double-spends don't appen?