Check out Blockstack, they're doing something like that. -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. > On Nov 30, 2017, at 2:20 PM, mandar mulherkar via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > Hello, > > I am new, so apologies if this has been asked before. > > Here are a few questions to start with - > > I was wondering in terms of mass adoption, instead of long wallet addresses, maybe there should be a DNS-like decentralized mapping service to provide a user@crypto address? > > This address translation can happen with confirmations from the network. So instead of providing a long string, or a QR code that needs an app, you simply type in a human readable address, and the wallet software converts it to a wallet address. > > Please let me know where I can research this more - if there already is literature about this somewhere. > > thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev