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Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames
- fbelzile 5y agoInteresting to see Tobi Lutke, CEO of Shopify, in this list (#17).
- kelthuzad 5y agoHe moved it into the bio section.
- officeplant 5y agoWe'll have to evolve the automated blocking again. Crypto folks were making it so easy to filter them out for a while.
- rburhum 5y agoSo... how would you go about monitoring to create this dataset with Twitter's API? Just plain searches triggered by a daily/weekly cron job and remember user ids? Or is there something more sophisticated?
- xkucht04 5y agoI’m in that list. It was just a “pose” for my to show affiliation towards ETH/ENS, nothing more. But I believe that sign-in with Ethereum and having decentralised account (something.eth) as oppose to having Google login (your gmail address), will be very beneficial in the near future.
- recursive 5y agoMy main takeaway here is that github has a CSV visualizer.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- rgoulter 5y agoMy favourite less-known GitHub feature is adding `.keys` or `.gpg` to a username will return the user's public SSH keys (or GPG keys).
- dgellow 5y agoYou can also see a commit in a git patch format by adding “.patch” or “.diff” to a commit url.
- RL_Quine 5y agoWhich is the source of some dumb deanonymization exploits!
- riffic 5y agogithub isn't the place to be an anonymized user imo.
- ugjka 5y agoor just don't use the same keys for everything
- freeone3000 5y agoA PGP-signed message is antithesis of anonymity.
- carlos-menezes 5y agoYou can also add `.png` to a username to retrieve the user's avatar, e.g. https://github.com/carlos-menezes.png https://github.com/carlos-menezes.png
- rdw 5y agoPresumably related to this: https://www.roryctait.com/post/why-did-shaq-just-add-eth-to-his-name-on-twitter https://www.roryctait.com/post/why-did-shaq-just-add-eth-to-...
- forgotpwd16 5y agoSo .eth is basically some crypto-related tld and those accounts are like having name.com as username? Why is it significant enough to list the accounts removing it?
- vmception 5y ago> Why is it significant enough to list the accounts removing it? its not
- dewey 5y agoHow is dropping them related to this article about them adding them?
- codetrotter 5y agoSeems relevant to me, as I am not so familiar with all of the details of the Ethereum ecosystem, and the link that parent commenter posted provides some background info.
- bagels 5y agoContext? How long were they with .eth? Did they get hacked, did they get paid?
- systemvoltage 5y agoAlso “Dropping” something can mean removing or adding (“New Nike shoes just dropped!).
- dewey 5y agoNot in this context where there's a "Before" and after column.
- systemvoltage 5y agoCouldn’t see it on mobile, I realized now!
- vechagup 5y agoThat meaning of dropped generally only applies in intransitive contexts. Here we have a thing dropping a thing, suggesting the older meaning of "dropped".
- systemvoltage 5y ago“Removing” is more precise though.
- dmurray 5y agoNo, "X just dropped a new track/album" is something I hear all the time in a music context.
- cormacrelf 5y agoMaybe enough people used that username.eth auto-blocker that their engagement figures dropped a non-negligible amount. My guess is the original list to check reverted usernames against came from https://antsstyle.com/nftcryptoblocker/ https://antsstyle.com/nftcryptoblocker/ Note the stats on that page, before it was shut down: "So far, it has performed 52.8M blocks and 10.6M mutes on behalf of users." That was one of maybe 5 different tools. Compare that to ~200-300M monthly active users. [[~~Assuming everyone who used those tools is a MAU, those usernames were collectively reaching 20% fewer people as a lower bound.~~]] Yeah, I guess this actually is a drop in the ocean. All you can say is that they were reaching 50M fewer eyeballs cumulatively. Of course that's counting everyone more than once, because they block more than one person each. Anyway, I think it's at least plausible that the people in the "growth area" for engagement stopped engaging one way or another. Folks using these tools were most likely in this segment, and the fact that they existed meant people had figured out a simple rule for you could simply avoid listening to & engaging with at all, whether the tools did actual blocking or not. Many of those blocks were presumably people who were fed up with the amount of NFT/.eth content in their feeds, and had been providing some negative engagement (but system doesn't care, that's still engagement). I think there's a thin but possible case to be made that this idea worked and now people have to strip their .eth to stop haemorrhaging engagement. Another more likely theory is that this represents people who have lost interest and no longer want to make it a very visible part of their identity.
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- newfonewhodis 5y agoLine goes up.
- phone8675309 5y agoThey stole my apes, Odo. https://youtu.be/DrbDWq64BNg https://youtu.be/DrbDWq64BNg
- chasemiller 5y agoAnd? Just people sharing their Ethereum Name Service (ENS) names. Still some of the biggest players in the crypto/NFT space on that list.
- dewey 5y agoThe keyword is "dropping". Look at the "Screen name" and "Before" columns.
- twox2 5y agoENS really makes life easier if you're involved in anything where you're transacting in ETH regularly and/or between multiple people.
- Kinchasa 5y agoTis true, I send NFTs and ETH to people all the time using their ENS names. It's like an email address for money and digital stuff. They're dope. Time will tell if it's a fad but it's certainly a trend.
- gkoberger 5y agoFor anyone curious, there was a trend where people were changing their display name on Twitter to their Ethereum Name Service (ENS). It's not a URL (even though it looks like it); the concept was similar to URLs though. You'd point a friendly name to your ETH wallet. The implication of this post is that ETH/ENS is dying or people are caring less. In think in reality, it's probably less exciting... it was just a fad.
- CameronNemo 5y agoSome may have realized that publicizing their net worth is both tacky and painting a target on their back.
- babyshake 5y agoIs there a good way to use a ENS name without exposing your net worth but not needing to rely on the same mixing techniques used to launder funds?
- benmanns 5y agoYou could use a separate wallet for your ENS name.
- throwaway2048 5y agothat doesn't help because all transfers to/from said wallet are public.
- yebyen 5y agoETH is a public ledger. If you publish your address and put your own name on it, any transfers to or from that address will be associated with your public name. This is not something that can be solved. At least not in ETH itself; even privacy coins like ZEC may have a way to make your identity public and make your history transparent – and it works as designed when you do this, your transactions are public. (In this sense, neither does using a mixer really help at all. It would just show that you've received some money and sent it to a mixer as yourself, if the mixer is also a public known entity.) I suppose one way to solve this, is to tell people to look up your ENS name, and then sign a message and share it with them – to present them securely with an address that they can use and verify that it belongs to you, only that it won't be tied to your original identity, except by that message (which you'd have to trust them not to share as well.)
- 5350-uiop-1130 5y agolist of crypto dudebros. wonder if they also removed the lazer eyes from their profile pic.
- skilled 5y agoI was just thinking about this the other day. I think around December there was quite a lot of "buzz" around all kinds of Web3 - mostly NFT - topics. I also think that more people are waking up to the fact that the concept is just too outlandish for a normal person to grasp on a technical level, and a complete ponzi scheme on the other side of the coin.
- exdsq 5y agoWithout starting an a discussion on the technology itself, volume/users are growing and not declining so this isn’t the case
- skilled 5y agoI mean, people want easy money, are you surprised?
- pavlov 5y agoThey're not growing. Trading volumes on OpenSea (a leading NFT platform) are reported to be down 80% from the peak a few months ago.
- mattdesl 5y agoLast month's OpenSea volume was $2.4B, the volume so far for the first nine days of April is $1B.[1] The average volume over the last few months is somewhere around $3B. Certainly the monthly volume and overall interest will rise and fall as all markets do, but total usage over time seems to be growing, and also expanding outside of OpenSea into other chains, protocols, apps (eg: Tezos). [1] https://dune.xyz/rchen8/opensea https://dune.xyz/rchen8/opensea
- josefresco 5y agoIt was funny to me when BoredElonMusk went from being just funny, to seriously and unironically pumping up nft/web3 stuff. He temporarily forgot why we all follow him in the first place.
- rchaud 5y ago".eth" was a crypto in-group signifier, like those childish "laser eyes" profile pic, hideous NFT profile pic, and saying "gm" ("good morning") to each on Twitter daily. Everyone so desperate to show to to others just how far in the future they were living. What's the most current one? "WAGMI"?
- swinglock 5y agoWAGMI has got to be the most cringeworthy and cultlike trend as of yet, but it too has probably been replaced by now.
- blamazon 5y agoFor some reason seeing these acronyms used non-ironically make me giggle uncontrollably. For anyone unaware: WAGMI - we are gonna make it NGMI - not gonna make it
- dgellow 5y agoWhat are they gonna make? I feel out of the loop reading this thread
- eli 5y agoAs with most things crypto, there's actually much less to it than it seems. That said, Hacker News readers shouldn't be surprised that people use jargon to demonstrate membership of an in-group or keep away outsiders.
- mrintellectual 5y ago> That said, Hacker News readers shouldn't be surprised that people use jargon to demonstrate membership of an in-group or keep away outsiders. To say that HN readers use specific keywords or acronyms is inaccurate, given the diversity of topics that make it to the front page. However, the discussions I see take place here are definitely of much higher overall quality than the average comments thread on other sites.
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- asdev 5y agowould be nice to see a column for if the user is verified or not, to know how many verified users are dropping it
- ilamont 5y agoVia the author: The flip side here is that we observed 35,267 accounts with “.eth” in their display names who aren’t on this list (yet). https://twitter.com/travisbrown/status/1511668595826335746 https://twitter.com/travisbrown/status/1511668595826335746
- cableshaft 5y agoSeveral of these still have 'eth' or 'nft' or 'crypto' in their new name, just not '.eth'. One even changed their name to 'nftsdoteth'. Not sure that should really be included on this list. Also seems like a whole bunch changed from '.eth' at the end to '0x' at the beginning. '0x' is how an ETH wallet address (without the ENS domain) begins, so that's still clearly a reference to crypto.
- IncRnd 5y ago0x in and of itself is not necessarily a reference to crypto. In many programming languages 0x at the start of a number means the number is encoded in base 16 (0123456789ABCDEF) instead of base 10 (0-9). see 0xDEADBEEF, 0xCAFEBABE, and for the eternal NFT crowd 0xFACEDEED.
- jrockway 5y agoWhat's interesting to me is that there is also a contingent of people that represent hexadecimal numbers with an "h" suffix, like FACEDEEDh. I always wondered what pushed people one way or the other. I learned 0x first but see "h" most in assembly code listings (which was indeed not my first programming language) and hardware datasheets.
- IncRnd 5y agoThat's definitely true. I think it comes from the preference of the author of an assembler's parser regarding how to recognize a number's base - either by analyzing the string or by forcing the progammer to declare upfront.
- bspammer 5y agoThe prefix seems better to me because you read it first, and also the x is a more clear marker than h because it’s at the opposite end of the alphabet to the rest of the hexadecimal digits.
- 1597 5y ago"h" suffix is a pain in the ass in MASM and probably other assemblers (a leading 0 is required for hex literals that begin with a letter to distinguish from identifiers e.g. mov eax, 0FACEDEEDh)
- legrande 5y agoWould be cool if they were domains and you could use Beaker Browser[0] to view the site. But no, they're essentially a hipster Paypal.me/Revolut.me/Patreon link. [0] https://beakerbrowser.com/ https://beakerbrowser.com/
- TimJRobinson 5y agoYou can set dns records up for them, but browers have to support it. Try Vitalik.eth, it should go to his blog.
- Jonovono 5y agoRemember how Twitter added "NFT" profile pics with the hexagon because NFT people kept bothering them to add it - and then no one used them! I think I saw 3 accounts using them and I was deep into Web3 at that time.
- vechagup 5y agoYou must not follow many VCs. They're _very_ into hexagonal pics and web3 hype.
- phillipcarter 5y agoThe good news is that most are not worth a follow :)
- designcode 5y agoWhy would someone follow VCs lol
- tradertef 5y agoVCs are the main people making many on this web3, nft, sh$tcoin stuff.
- FanaHOVA 5y agoMany of the people on this list, like tobi, have one.
- clpm4j 5y agoI'm still really fascinated/confused by Tobi's demonstrated obsession with crypto/nft/web3. He's obviously not in it to get rich because he's already rich, and he actually has a presumably deep understanding of technology (unlike most of the crypto fanatics), so all I can imagine is that he really must be caught up in the philosophical/cultural trappings of it.
- Biganon 5y ago
- snissn 5y agoso far i went to the first result on the page and it's SHAQ and he changed his name from SHAQ.ETH to SHAQ.SOL (ethereum to solana) so i'm not sure the first assumption everyone's jumping to in the comments that crypto is dead is so valid
- vmception 5y agoI did .sol several months back. I never registered an ENS for that name, or the equivalent on Solana. One of the ironies though is that smart contracts on Ethereum and EVMs are mostly written in Solidity which makes .sol file extensions. Funny for a Solana namespace to use .sol I also did one of the 3, 3 variations in support of various Ohm forks or other trends, many on that list have .eth and a variation of (3, 3) people just went back to something simpler it was a fun, and lucrative, trend now I just have a Kevin as my profile pic, because its hilariously goofy and such an absurd story different projects, mostly NFT collections, are bigger than ever. rotatoooooorrrrr
- elevenoh 5y agoENS is like a mapping to a pgp key - that along makes it interesting on twitter
- cslarson 5y agoI think adding .eth fell out of favor after Brantly Milligan was fired from his job and banned from Twitter.
- phillipcarter 5y ago> was fired from his job and banned from Twitter And it probably also has to do with the fact that he has an enormous share in the governing DAO for ENS, so even being fired from a job doesn't mean he's gone. But yeah, being associated with someone who doubles down on past homophobic and transphobic statements probably isn't all that attractive to a bunch of people
- ryan29 5y agoWow. I hadn't seen that. I just read about it and it reinforces my view that cryptocurrency is appealing to the wealthy because of the promise that whoever controls all the tokens and resources (ie: wealth) controls all the rules. When you look at some of the issues with ICANN at least there's some chance that public opinion can influence them. The .org scandals show this. Imagine if the whole system was "code is law" and the existing executives and board members owned a controlling interest of "vote tokens". I don't understand why people would want a system like that with crypto domains. Do they think that a system where $1 = 1 vote is going to be democratic?
- exdsq 5y ago> Do they think that a system where $1 = 1 vote is going to be democratic? There’s alternatives to this like quadratic voting where you do get more votes with tokens but they tail off quickly, among many other methods
- nikanj 5y agoThey prefer a system where the wealthy have the power, and they're the wealthy. Crypto comes with two promises: 1) You'll have tons of money, from having invested early 2) The government is powerless to control the money
- Hbruz0 5y ago
- douglaswlance 5y agoA huge factor here that no one has pointed out yet: spam bots heavily target people with `.eth` in their handle. It could be the case that many people are removing `.eth` for that reason alone.
- bob55 5y ago
- legrande 5y agoSaw Gary Vaynerchuck (@garyvee) hopping on the web3 bandwagon. His basic message was always 'social media sells shit'. So easy to spot 'early adopter syndrome'.
- basisword 5y agoAnd now he owns one of the biggest digital marketing agencies. Seems like his basic message was pretty accurate.
- labrador 5y agoWhere Lambo?
- jdrc 5y ago.eth has also surely doxxed a lot of ppl who have carelessly used a metamask wallet that has transactions that be traced to their other wallets or transactions
- baby 5y agoNot super interesting. More interesting would be a list of trends observable in usernames.
- firloop 5y agoThis list isn't accurate. I'm in the list (@worm_emoji) and I have .eth in my display name still. Spotchecking reveals a few other friends with .eth still in the display name are on this list.
- HNHatesUsers 5y ago
- norswap 5y agoStrange to see people in this thread seemingly accepting this as face value evidence that the trend is dying. For that, you'd need to also see a chart of people who have added .eth to their name. (I have no horse in this race, I had .eth in my username and then removed it because I decided that I'd rather not encourage people to look into the transactions I'm making, though admittedly it's still easy enough.)
- alexslobodnik 5y agoand yet folks keep registering new ENS names. https://dune.xyz/queries/5676/11222 https://dune.xyz/queries/5676/11222
- 71a54xd 5y agoI'd be very curious to see the source for the scripts this guy is using to generate these csvs! Long running monitoring like this at scale is somewhat difficult.
- nikolay 5y agoLike any domain, all the good names are already taken and listed for crazy amounts - often higher than .com! Long ago, I wanted to get a domain, but the gas was over 10 times the price of the domain Some people told me to register the domain for 10 years and spread the fees over 10 years, which is beyond ridiculous! You're offering something "better" in such a terrible way. I do have a lot of traditional domains and the market for them is going down as well - most people use mobile apps and domains, unfortunately, are losing a lot of their appeal.