Re:Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io
by riffraff on Monday March 31, 2014 @02:42PM
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please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is not really decentralized.
It's a single authority that owns a namespace in namecoin and is giving out sub-names.
It's decentralized in the same way a twitter account is.
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Re:Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io
by jnbiche on Monday March 31, 2014 @02:53PM
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No, you're wrong. It's entirely decentralized. Have a look at the spec:
https://github.com/onenameio/onename
Anyone running a full Namecoin node (ie, anyone running Namecoin client) can register an identification.
OneName is providing a convenient web portal to this key-value store on Namecoin, so their business model is somewhat analogous to Blockchain.info's (or perhaps they have another business model in mind, who knows?).
Re:Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io
by vertex-four on Monday March 31, 2014 @04:54PM
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Nobody can own namespaces. They're "just" acting as a middleman for buying names in Namecoin in a namespace they've defined themselves, but anyone could bypass them and buy their own names in that namespace.
The annoying thing is, we already have a namespace for identities, it's standardised and documented on the wiki. They came in and defined their own namespace for no good reason.