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“Announcing Blockstack: Decentralized DNS and Identity for Blockchain Applications”

Posted on 25. February 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Albert Wenger (USV):

Many things are exciting about Blockstack including the fact that it is fully operational today. But also that it has been designed from the ground up with the capabilities that we would and should expect from such a system, including:

  • name lookups on a decentralized naming system

  • name registrations and transfers without centralized registrars

  • automatic binding of names to owning cryptographic keypairs

  • automatic cache invalidation

  • immunity to DNS cache poisoning

  • robust certificate pinning capabilities

  • resistance to censorship of name registration and resolution

Bit by bit a whole blockchain system comes to life these days.

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