Nice read. I'm surprised you're not mentioning Handshake/HNS in your thought process.
My latest for Bombthrower - it's over 10,000 words and spans 2000 years, so put on a pot of coffee, and maybe print it out:
Bitcoin vs CBDC's & The Battle for the Soul of Humanity
https://bombthrower.com/bitcoin-vs-cbdcs-the-spiritual-battle-for-the-soul-of-humanity
Discussion
Funny you’re the second guy to mention Handshake to me this week. I’ve been keeping an eye on that for some time - I think the TLD land rush was a mistake
We were running an experimental resolver at easyDNS which resolves HNS and BNS (Stacks) domains but when I checked this week HNS resolution is busted. Need to fix.
Of course we’ve been involved in ENS since nearly the beginning but it was such a letdown to see them ditch PoW and everything else going on there
Still watching for a naming layer to emerge directly on Bitcoin or an L2 on top.