Consensus-Unique Name Tokens — Identity Binding and Verified Resolution
On Bitcoin, nothing in the base protocol stops two different people from each broadcasting a valid-looking claim to the same human-readable name, so an app that lets users send money to "archie" instead of a long address has no built-in way to know whose claim is real. Without a way to settle that fight by the rules of the network itself, someone ends up trusted to arbitrate it, which reintroduces the single point of failure usernames were meant to avoid.
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