<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Andrew Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com" target="_blank">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 03:34:31PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:<br>
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> obvious way to make an open gTLD registry work is with a notary log at the<br>
> heart of it.<br>
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</span>You may wish to check out the "namecoin" project.<br>
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Best regards,</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Yes, it is a great idea but please loose the damn coin business.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Its like US academia in the 1950s where vast amounts of first class work became utter dreck because of fixations with the ideology of Freud and Marx.</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The Harber and Stornetta notary chain is very powerful. I really hope we don't have people avoiding it in future because of one poorly chosen application.</div><br></div></div><br></div></div>