Ripple Names launched

Ripple names allow you to use identifiers like "~MyName" to identify
yourself on the financial network. Now people can just send payment to
~MyName rather than an address like rpvfJ4mR6QQAeogpXEKnuyGBx8mYCSnYZi.

https://ripple.com/dev-blog/introducing-ripple-names/

Other technologies in this general area include:

DNS:      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS
Namecoin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin

-- manu

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Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
blog: The Marathonic Dawn of Web Payments
http://manu.sporny.org/2014/dawn-of-web-payments/

Received on Tuesday, 29 April 2014 01:33:38 UTC