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102 sats \ 8 replies \ @DarthCoin 13h \ on: Making Bitcoin Speak Human - Spiral Blog bitcoin
  1. Who the hell is still sending onchain txs to a buddy ?
  2. We already have LN address for that, let's not just reinvent the wheel.
This whole BIP 353 is totally useless like BIP 177
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @endothermicdev 10h
You can put a BOLT12 in your BIP353 DNS record and get paid by lightning. lnaddress works but it always felt a little hacky. If I have the option I'd prefer to get a proper BOLT12, complete with blinded paths, signatures, etc..
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102 sats \ 4 replies \ @sime 11h
  1. It happens a lot, but It's obviously not ideal
  2. LN Address depend on LNURL, which depends on an HTTP server. DNS is a little more fire and forget
I don't like that it depends on things you don't actually own, meaning it's not entirely censorship resistant: a. The domain can be taken away from you. b. DNS records can be modified. OK, they mention DNSSEC, which I have zero experience so that angel might be covered.
The spec is more pushing BOLT12 without a webserver that is backwards compatibility to Layer 1.
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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h
So a LNURL server depending on a DNS is not censorship resistant but a BIP353 address depending on the same DNS is censorship resistant.
I do not see the logic here.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @sime 1h
Never said DNS is censorship resistant.
Off topic, but using pubky for DNS is a censorship resistant (it's quite cool, uses DHT that the torrent network uses)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sime 1h
Using pubky with LNURL would be censorship resistant. (I think)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nevermind 3h
Agree
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54 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 11h
I think they are trying to shoot for something where you can give someone one thing (a paynym, an address, a lnurl thing) and it works for all kinds of ways a person wants to pay you.
There is some value to that. I don't mind qr codes though. I'm not sure it is so much of an improvement on just sending qr codes around.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h
The whole thing they want to "fit" Bitcoin in that old antiquated mindset of fiat, where everything must be "verified" or "human readable" by dumb people that can't even read an analog clock anymore...
Bitcoin it have its own way forward and the world MUST adapt to it not the way around. Nobody in the right mind will want to memorize a long bitcoin address, and QR codes are not to make it easy to pay, but to HIDE exactly that address from human eye. That human eye can make mistakes and same mistakes can be made with a scor3sby@scoresby.com instead of scoresby@scoresby.com.
Just imagine how many scams will start spoofing those "human readable" addressee like they try to do today with emails. And why some of them have sucess? Exactly because we've skipped the education of people and we tried to hide these technical things. How many people you see looking into an email header today ? Almost none. Yet they believe any email the receive.
A QR code is just scanned, hardly can be faked. Also Bitcoin is a push system, that means you need an invoice to be paid, not just sending money to an address... An invoice is created and presented to the payer.
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