Also in crypto: who on *earth* is still buying useless fake domains in November 2022?
@seldo 🖐️
I actually end up using them daily!
(Sorry if that was a rhetorical question and you weren't actually curious)
@vincent No I am genuinely fascinated, what on earth do you use them for? They don't do anythign.
So ENS is just like DNS in that you can have many types of records:
- You can use a record to point to an address, so that instead of seeing 0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045 you have vitalik.eth. Almost all apps support this, ex: https://etherscan.io/address/vitalik.eth
- You can use it to point to content on IPFS (a bittorrent-like thing without tokens). Brave supports it natively, otherwise you can also bridges like .limo or .link. Ex: https://ethereum.eth.limo/
- You can point to a twitter account too, and there are extensions that do the equivalent of the "rel=me" verification of mastodon but with .eth domains
There is more type of records, but those are the ones I use daily
@seldo I do have lots of friends who have one, and when we split bills we use them to settle things.
In non-financial things, I'm excited for communication apps like https://status.im/ where ENS can be use as a portable identity (and ENS subdomains can now be issued without involving tokens) and everything can be made serverless and open. It's not quite production ready though
Also use it to learn some maths 😜 https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2019/09/22/plonk.html
@vincent Okay, got it, you don't use it for anything.
@seldo That's about right, except for all the things I'm using it for, I'm not using it for anything.
I don't want to change your mind or anything, but I'm curious why you see it as a hopeless technology?
@vincent Because you, a user so enthusiastic about the technology that you can't admit you don't use it for anything, still can't find anything to use it for.
@vincent Less glibly: ENS is a scam. It does nothing DNS can't do, except it costs money. It is not more decentralized; a cabal of 7 people completely control every deploy and could shut the whole system down. It's just completely superfluous and improves nothing about the status quo.
@vincent I know how it works, but what do you *use* it for. Do you do anything with it other than buy/sell crypto?