Ethereum Name Service & The Internet Naming Revolution w/ Brantly Millegan (Ep. 0065)

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Welcome to this conversation with Brantly Millegan, Director of Operations at Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a non-profit that allows users to register human-friendly addresses for sending money and interacting with smart contracts. For example, ENS lets Alice shorten her 0x-prefixed Ethereum address (something like “0x4cbe58c50480…”) to “alice.eth."

This conversation with Brantly is split into 3 chapters:

An explanation of what naming systems are

How ENS works and what users can do with it

A Q&A; covering ENS' competitors, future use cases & more

The episode also covers the following:

How blockchain makes ENS censorship-resistant

Programming ENS names with smart contracts

The difference between .eth and ENS

Why ENS is no longer creating new TLDs

How ENS is funded

Trading a .eth name like any other NFT

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