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> However they can easily fix this by offering an official "directory" which allows you to sign up by email/username and stores the username This is already th
by greenshackle2 9y ago
> However they can easily fix this by offering an official "directory" which allows you to sign up by email/username and stores the username
This is already the case, you can associate your ID with a user name. Perhaps their FAQ should be updated.
EDIT: It's mentioned in the announcement:
> Support of an Ethereum blockchain as a distributed public user database
- Rjevski 9y agoSo here we are again, using yet another obscure technology for a very simple problem solved years ago: a key value store. Will I have to pay with ETH to have an username linked to my ID?
- moosingin3space 9y agoA decentralized key-value store that is tolerant to an active adversary is not a "very simple problem". A block-chain is actually a reasonable solution for this, see [1]. Not to say it's perfect, for sure. [1]: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/ http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittor...
- greenshackle2 9y agoThanks, was about to say. If there is a simple, non-obscure solution to this problem, I'd like to know what it is.