Comment by meowkit | Hacker News Reader

Comment by meowkit | Hacker News Reader

> So I still need a DNS name,

Ethereum Name Service (ENS) https://forkast.news/what-is-ens-ethereum-name-service-how-d...

> After all, a programmer doing the most basic test of a web3 prototype is going to need to get the cryptocurrency, spend the cryptocurrency, and any application will require all users to get the cryptocurrency as well. If this gets abandoned quickly due to the inevitable technical failure “web3” still accomplished its goal of getting more suckers in and extracting their money.

Hard to take serious the rest of the blog when he doesn't seem to be aware of development testnets that exist for exactly the above reason. Or familiar with scaling efforts, or some of the long term ethos of the crypto developer community.

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/networks/#testnets

I dunno, it still looks like a big ponzi scheme in many angles.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> or some of the long term ethos of the crypto developer community.

Do you mean "the code is the contract unless the contract would cause a substantial number of wealthy stakeholders to lose money, in which case the code is no longer the contract" (a stance, I might add, that is _formalized_ by PoS systems, if anyone ever manages to get one online)?

Besides ENS, there is also https://www.hdns.io/

none of these will be resolvable hostnames in an unmodified desktop operating system or networking device with default configuration

The same argument could have been made against TLSv1.3, IPv6 or HTTP 2/3.

See how much of the web you can access on an old IE6 installation.

I don’t think anything behind a LetsEncrypt certificate will, for example.

Companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, et al, are absolutely never going to put this sort of hopeware alternative root into their operating systems.

Why are you still using Internet Explorer® 6 and Safari?

The next OS vendor might.

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