📅 Original date posted:2011-12-16
🗒️ Summary of this message: Namecoin is a decentralized system designed to map names to other things, making it a perfect starting point for constructing a zero-trust namecoin resolver.
📝 Original message:On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Khalahan <khal at dot-bit.org> wrote:
> Namecoin is a peer-to-peer generic name/value datastore system.
> Don't forget it's not limited to .bit usage ! So, directly mapping
> things to .bit url would not be the optimal way of using namecoin.
>
> Namecoin is specificaly designed to map things to names in a fully
> decentralized way. So, it's the perfect starting point to map names to
> other things (a public bitcoin address, an url, etc)
> You won't have all the advantages of namecoin when using other systems
> like DNS and HTTP(S) as the first entry point.
How can one construct a zero-trust (or nearly zero trust) namecoin
resolver without having a copy of the ever growing complete namecoin
block chain?
The bitcoin lite node mechanism will not work because a peer could
return stale records or no-result and you would have no evidence of
their deception. (In the case of lite bitcoin nodes, telling you
about old transactions is harmless because you control your own
transactions).
Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] /
npub1f2…crwet
2023-06-07 02:48:26
in reply to nevent1q…dluh
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