Haha, exactly, now the fun part.

The immediate use case is simple: use your handle like a Bitcoin Linktree.

Point it to whatever you choose. Different types of Bitcoin addresses, a Lightning offer, a silent payment address, social profiles, a website or anything else.

One clean name that resolves to your current records. All verified by Bitcoin itself. Full bidirectional zkTLS coming soon so you can't point to random socials or fake accounts.

Next step is wallet integration. Type a spaces name and it resolves to a Bitcoin address.

Similar to what we have with BIP353, except BIP353 relies on the DNS tower of custody and can rug users at any time. Obviously spaces is much better, your handle is committed to Bitcoin, the record is verified against the on chain root and no company or person sits in the middle.

Nostr is another great and easy use case. Nostr clients can resolve long npubs in verified spaces names. We have something like this with NIP05, but NIP05 depends on a single file hosted on a website believe it or not.

There's no cryptographic proof of ownership with our current solutions BIP353, NIP05, even DNSSEC, they all introduce real security issues.

Spaces replaces trust with proof. It's an elegant improvement and straightforward for clients to implement.

Websites an apps can offer 'log in with spaces'. The ownership of the space is proven by a private key, not an email and password.

As companies attempt to offer subscription plans and have users own nothing, tools like Bitcoin, nostr, spaces are giving users control over their money and identity.

Spaces can even function as a more secure alternative to traditional DNS. A website can continue to resolve normally at it's regular domain, let's say stacker.news - while the same content resolves through a spaces name stacker@news

Even cooler, a browser that supports spaces resolution can load a hidden site that requires 0 trust in any registrar or certificate authority. Essentially creating an entirely new internet that is much more censor ship resistant.

There's really a ton of possibilities and now that the protocol is finally built out, all these fun tools can be built.