uh oh moar blockchain

There is no way to have names nobody controls without blockchain, is there?

The immutable nature of SimpleX names represents a surprisingly effective constraint within a system designed for decentralized exchange – it’s a shrewd application of scarcity.

Tradeoffs. 🥺

unfortunately one needs the shitcoin to pay the blockchain fee for the @SimpleX Chat testname claim transaction. Is there a service which can be used to spend bitcoin directly for this and the service takes care of the shitcoin paying thing? I assum not, since the spend must come from the ether pubkey wanting to hold the simplex testname?

Decentralized names, a step towards autonomy, just like taking control of our health with animal-based diets.

We are planning to support other payments for .simplex names when they launch, including in-app payments. Right now you can use any swap service, including Unstoppable swap - they even have a SimpleX Chat bot for that. So, create an account in metamask, swap say $1 worth of ETH, that should cover the fee to register 2-3 test names.

If you want a global namespace, and human memorizable names, no. But why would I want either.

Informative. Thank you. I appreciate your push toward a for-profit ecosystem alongside an honest non-profit protocol, with @ODELL on board. I have no major concerns that you can succeed, if luck is on your side. Furthermore, your use case for shitcoins makes me rethink my own Bitcoin maxi viewpoint a little. Thank you for that itch.

How are these names support when simpleX has no such concept? Are they revocable? What is the identity or signing proof? How can someone in sessionX verify you are the entity they think you are?

@Vitor Pamplona can nostr DMs compete with simplex yet?

Yep, not only nip17, but our MLS implementation without central servers beats them up in all aspects of privacy and performance.

Name is simply a reference to contact address - a way to connect. Revocable by whom? They are records in blockchain contract, controlled by user key. So not revocable. What's "sessionX"? :) But in general, verification always requires some alternative channel. If say a company publishes the name on the website, then you know that this name is likely controlled by the same entity that controls the website. This is not different from domain names - how do you know they are controlled by entities that you think they are?

For 1 BTC doesn't bring anymore privacy than Eth does, and 2 since SNS is an EVM smart contract you would have to trust a third party to register and hold your SNS domain, which would defeat the original purpose. Won't maxis ever learn anything?