GM Farcasters 🌅 

Today's protocol explainer covers the dilemma between trustworthy and decentralized identities and our solution to the problem.

GM Farcasters 🌅 

Today's protocol explainer covers the dilemma between trustworthy and decentralized identities and our solution to the problem.

https://youtu.be/ISRyNh6Zd8g

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

This is great intro to farcaster name space. Questions:

Is the choice to have separate name spaces driven by previous examples of speculation? i.e. ENS

Would you consider using DIDs for the primary ID? e.g. to enable private credentialing, multi platform interop, binding multiple IDs

May add more questions later

chief conspirator /cryptosapiens, helping creators transform their distribution and monetization onchain, bullish on crypto since 2016

1. there are a few reasons - our simple namespace is easy to type, prevents homoglyph attacks and lets us have a more fair distribution

2. it should be easy to wrap our identity system inside a did if that is useful to people

The primary case for revoking would be if you are not using it at all (inactive account) or impersonating someone

What’s the case for owning and defending a secondary ID? For example, I’ve picked humpty. What case would someone make, or fc, for taking it? And how could I defend against it being taken? i.e. it’s my name.

I've had some discussions with non-FC devs, and one main misunderstandings they have in common is thinking that fname is the primary identifier. Perhaps because FID isn't prominently displayed in current FC clients?