Oddbean

Ethereum Tyranny Agenda: Ethereum Name Service is now integrated with Google search. You can search an .eth name and get the balance. It's sad to see the ETH community cheer on the coming surveillance to rip away our freedoms. The purpose of decentralized systems & cryptocurrency is to resist the banks and big tech, which should trigger an adversarial response. These VCs that back ETH projects, often have a history of funding the centralized oppressive systems and rebellion simultaneously. Here's the agenda: 1. Farcaster's Warpcast now requires tokens to enter each community. 2. Force people to use KYC exchanges to get these tokens the devs print 3. Farcaster doesn't pay the hubs to store the data, so not only can the devs leech all the money, but there's no incentive to resist a takedown if you make no money to keep content up. Therefore, 4. The empire can track who is speaking on "censorship resistant" platforms and cancel them tech-wise or in-real-life. 5. And if the ETH devs resist, they risk having their coins delisted from KYC exchanges. This forces compliance

blockchain-based domain name service is actually a good idea. it's probably the only non-retarded NFT-like use-case I have ever seen, and it's the second thing anyone ever managed to do with any blockchain. I wouldn't discount the whole idea because some developers are misusing it, just like they misused NFTs to sell pictures of cartoon kittens. ideally, the NFT should store attributes that point to IPFS resources, eepsites, or blinded cryptocurrency addresses.

I 100% agree with you bro. That's why I'm shocked to see that Brave Browser REMOVED support for IPFS. Ethereum name service costs $3 to update, who is going to pay this for each blog post? That's why we keep our static PGP key on SimplifiedPrivacy.eth but no other content However, Solana names are cheaper to update, and faster to access queries. But Brave was the only one resolving those names. This move by Brave shows the industry doesn't get it. They are happy about Google search balances, but not the real use case of websites.

hey I actually replied too quickly before, you can serve up the json file for the name... but the nostr client would need to be configured to check it off ENS. Even if you made it, you'd have to convince your fellow nostr family members to use it as well. The good news though is Session messenger already works like this now

yup. I also bought a SNS domain instead of a ENS domain. it's far from perfect and nobody seems to care to make it better despite how useful it can be but I was still very excited for an opportunity to play with it. I can't even issue SSL certificates against it. it is just redirecting to a traditional domain, and only in brave browser.