Everything You Didn’t Know About the Handshake Naming System — How this #blockchain Project Will…
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Everything You Didn’t Know About the Handshake Naming SystemHow this Blockchain Project Will Disintermediate the Keepers of the InternetThe project was conceived by the people who brought you Purse and Private Internet Access.Handshake, despite popular misconception, is not a blockchain project that seeks to decentralize existing #dns infrastructure in its entirety. That’d be biting off something much more than any #cryptocurrency-backed system could chew. Indeed, it is part of the reason why the predecessors of Handshake have not seen true adoption.According to the project paper,“The Handshake naming protocol differs from its predecessors in that it has no concept of namespacing or subdomains at the consensus layer. Its purpose is currently not to replace all of DNS, but to replace the root (...)