Names Just Landed on Bitcoin | Bitcoin Has Names Now
Spaces Protocol is live on Bitcoin mainnet. This episode is the weekly show catching up after months of soft launch: what changed, why the team waited, and what to build now that handles can be issued for real.
Mike Carson and Buffrr, with the rest of the core team, kept the subspace design in revision until the path from a zero-knowledge issuance to a fully sovereign name was tested. Testnet was too uneven for that. Blocks arrived late or not at all. Mainnet, even in beta, ran at Bitcoin's pace.
The public launch waited on the supporting software too, including a way to sell names. The point of the episode is that a protocol is a set of rules, not a finished app. Adoption is the work in front: education, and things built on the name.
The host already demoed one at a Nostr meetup. An Nginx proxy that understands Spaces names, a fork of Techno Hippies' freedom browser, and an Nsite gateway so a handle can point at a site spread across servers the way Nostr spreads posts.
Next on the list: ordinary browsers, not only a custom one. A Nostr NIP that replaces NIP-05, so verification is a Bitcoin name instead of a page on a domain you rent. A way to tell a person from a bot. Mail that does not depend on DNS. Inheritance. Anything that needs assurance more than instant signup.
The contrast he keeps coming back to is GoDaddy. A dollar the first year, then $30 renewals on a card you forgot. Spaces is the version where you do not need permission, and you do not have to stay in good standing with a registrar.
https://youtu.be/DZZ4INKBUrQ
#Bitcoin #Mainnet #Spacesprotocol #Nsite
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