On The Brink with Castle Island Tieshun Roquerre (Namebase) on the Prospects for Decentralized DNS (EP.185)
Feb 25, 2021
01:03:13
Namebase founder and CEO Tieshun Roquerre joins us for a discussion of Handshake, decentralized DNS, and issues with the current system of domains. In this episode:
- The core technical problem with DNS today
- Why a blockchain for a decentralized DNS system makes sense
- How Satoshi anticipated blockchain-based DNS with BitDNS
- Could a global PoW blockchain system accommodate all of the world's domains?
- How Handshake learned from Namecoin, ENS, and other attempts from blockchain based DNS and alternative root zones
- The distinction between ENS and Handshake
- Handshake's origin and launch – and how it ended up with such diffuse governance
- Where the nexuses of control are in the Handshake ecosystem
- How Handshake PoW security works
- The merits of embracing ASICs
- How the distribution of domains works
- What you can actually do with handshake domains
- The growing interoperability between handshake and decentralized storage like Sia