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On 11/30/2017 10:20 PM, mandar mulherkar via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new, so apologies if this has been asked before.
>
> Here are a few questions to start with -
>
> I was wondering in terms of mass adoption, instead of long wallet
> addresses, maybe there should be a DNS-like decentralized mapping service
> to provide a user@crypto address?
Check out namecoin, there is also blockstack as someone mentioned, but I personally feel namecoin is technologically better.
If do not want a static bitcoin address mapped to a username, could use a stealth address (we need more
support for stealth addresses in bitcoin wallets).
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