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Good thing the central claims of the blog post are false. I explained in my top level comment.

The central criticism of ENS in this blog post - that the multisig (in the past) or the DAO (now) could take away your .ETH name - is not true. No one has the ability to take a .ET…

Yep. Also note that ENS is a generic naming system, not just .eth names. You can also import in DNS names you already use, e.g. I own brantly.xyz on DNS and also imported it into t…

Yes, public key cryptography is not new. What's new is that crypto incentives has spurred the creation of a highly competitive industry to improve private key management, and incen…

It does not cost $120/yr. ENS protocol fees are: - unlimited subdomains, free - importing DNS name into ENS, free - for .eth names, based on length: 3 characters, $640/yr; 4 ch, $1…

FYI, you can still have that exact kind of service with Ethereum accounts, some wallets offer that. It's improving all the time, but there are already and will continue to be many …

A decentralized naming system that solves what was previously thought to be an unsolvable computer science problem (Zooko's Triangle) that's open source and self-running, and where…

> There were loads of vendor-neutral identity ideas that all fell flat because nobody wants to sign up just for an identity. Yep, I agree SSO by itself isn't enough of an incentive…

> So the Director of Operations of ENS Domains says Ethereum has solved an extremely solved problem and one of the cornerstones of that solution is... wait for it... ENS Domains. G…

Hey! Author of the thread here. Thanks for your comments! > This is an extremely solved problem. Not with the properties of Sign-In with Ethereum (SIE), which is single, user gener…

Hey! Author of the thread here. Thanks for your comments! > This is an extremely solved problem. Not with the properties of Sign-In with Ethereum (SIE), which is single, user gener…