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"Sign in with Blockstack" - never heard of that, so won't be signing up. No way to provide sign-in with e-mail & pw? :(
by slater 7y ago
"Sign in with Blockstack" - never heard of that, so won't be signing up.
No way to provide sign-in with e-mail & pw? :(
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoI am really confused how it's supposed to be "decentralized" if you have to have a sign-in with a specific provider to use it. Can you log in if Blockstack-the-company goes down or has a technical issue?
- Walterion 7y agoYour identity is on the blockchain and that is decentralized so even in that case you or anyone can run a separate node to handle them. Also all the auth library is open source so anyone can work on that.
- russdpale 7y agoIts a distributed database, it doesn't matter if the blockstack company takes a long walk off of a short pier.
- Walterion 7y agoIt is free and will not take almost no special info, give it a try ;) The Blockstack auth with assure that your data is secure and encrypted
- slater 7y agoMany things are free to sign up for. Heck, I regularly sign up/join any Show HN-featured site. But there's zero reason for any site not to offer the tried-and-trusted email and password, even just as as a fallback option, especially these days where trust in online stuff is seemingly at an all-time low. Google, Facebook, et al., companies with massively larger, dedicated security departments swore up, down, and sideways that "everyone's data" is "secure" and "encrypted" ";)"