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It’s time bitcoin had a way to specify human-readable names for payment instructions.

LN Address has demonstrated the utility of such names, but it’s time to take it beyond just lightning and remove the dependence on HTTPS/CAs.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1551

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Mark E. Jeftovic 1y ago

You had me at “DNS”.

Would love to dig into this (no pun intended)

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Matt Corallo 1y ago

The DNSSEC proof validation can also be played with at http://http-dns-prover.as397444.net/

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Mark E. Jeftovic 1y ago

DANE could play a role here to provide transport layer encryption without needing to trust a CA

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Matt Corallo 1y ago

It could, but luckily we don’t actually need any transport encryption to send money to people over bitcoin :)

That prover does support TLSS though, if it want to use DANE for something.