Part 2: Handshake Network, Namebase & A Censorship-Resistant Internet w/ Tieshun Roquerre (Ep. 0073)

This crypto podcast is the second of a two-part conversation with Tieshun Roquerre, co-founder and CEO of Namebase, an exchange and registrar for Handshake (HNS) domain names. Handshake domains can be used for websites, apps, or crypto wallet addresses. Namebase facilitates their auction and registration on blockchain, where they are resistant to censorship and other forms of tampering.

The conversation is split into 5 chapters:

The origins of Handshake and Namebase

Handshake's ecosystem

Handshake from an investor’s perspective

How to acquire a Handshake domain

Namebase’s future

The first two chapters were covered in Part 1. This part covers Chapters 3, 4, and 5.

It also covers:

How HNS is like an index fund & buying domains is like picking stocks

How Handshake enables full-stack decentralized applications

Strategies that bidders have employed to win name auctions

Why Namebase surfaces mempool information

How lockups work: the bid and the blind

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