🥳Buffrr, co-founder of Spaces Protocol joins the show, Inside Bitcoin Spaces with Jason and Andrew.
In this episode we discuss how DNS is rented. ICANN, registries, registrars can take your name.
A .com is a lease from a registrar, who sits under a registry, who sits under ICANN. You pay every year. They can refuse renewal, seize the name, or change the records.
👉You don’t hold a key that makes the name yours. It's not yours.
People say they “own” a domain the way they “own” a phone number. They mean they paid and it’s in their account. The account can still close.
A Spaces handle is different: the certificate plus the on-chain root. No yearly ICANN bill for that name. Top-level Spaces stay yours as long as you keep using the Space UTXO. Sub handles never expire. Once issued, they stay with the key.
curious@bitcoin is issued, committed as a 32-byte root on Bitcoin, and it does not expire. You truly own your name with spaces protocol, verified on Bitcoin with no middleman.
Certrelay is not trusted, nor should it be. Clients verify against the Bitcoin chain. You already trust Bitcoin with your stack. Same chain holds your name.
We cover BIP-353 and NIP-05 and why they fall short vs Spaces (see NIP-Spaces), why auction bids are burned in OP_RETURN, sub handles vs top-level Spaces, taking a sub handle on-chain, Nacho backups, Robin@bitcoin's Keybase-style verify idea, the next explorer, upgraded spaces marketplace, NIP-SPACES, and the last TABConf.
There is also a hint at a potential wallet adding spaces functionality?
Join us as we chat about this exciting time in Bitcoin. Watch the entire show or if pressed for time, find the topic that interests you the most and click the timestamp on our youtube channel to jump directly to that discussion.
https://youtu.be/bgwz76ffwSY
#Bitcoin #SpacesProtocol #BitcoinNames #Buffrr #SelfCustody #DNS #ICANN #Nostr #Lightning #NachoApp #TABConf #OpenSource #SovereignIdentity #DecentralizedIdentity
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