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I think we can replace IANA with nested StratumV2 pools that run e-cash mints and assign address ranges as autonomous systems.

Whenever a pool finds a new block it becomes the DNS server that calls the shots till a new block is found. How many IP addresses an autonomous system controls depends on the amount of hashrate that it contributed to that block. Oh and domains aren't strictly needed. The DNS server could just map npubs to IP addresses (or ranges).

Just point your hashrate at your internet gateway - which also happens to be a pool, and you get your fair share of public IP addresses.
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago 💬 2

if it can get shuffled that easily it's not worth paying to register the name, and npubs are not human readable, and same for IP numbers and ranges

it is the one interesting case for blockchain databases - because of the public nature of these addresses, but how to secure it?

you really can't have this stuff having any game options for messing with it, needs to be hard to change as bitcoin transactions 6 deep from the head

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DM for new npub 1y ago 💬 1

We already trust our DNS servers and our e-cash mints not to mess with us. This DNS server is a pool, so you don't buy a domain. You mine Bitcoin and you get address space + Bitcoin for your work.

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DM for new npub 1y ago

People who are buying an IP address from their fiat ISP are out of luck. I won't find them, because I'm on the proof of work (inter)network and it isn't their IP address on this network 😀

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DM for new npub 1y ago

I realize this means giving up the existing network effects on the fiat internet, but how else are we going to bootstrap a network without fiat authorities?