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privacy: Make email optional #274

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xaur opened this issue Nov 7, 2018 · 2 comments
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privacy: Make email optional #274

xaur opened this issue Nov 7, 2018 · 2 comments

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@xaur
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xaur commented Nov 7, 2018

Only 20 stakepools know email addresses of people holding some 50% tickets. I don't know exact percentage, but it is big enough to be a concern.

Email is obsolete, legacy, ancient, anti-privacy comm system. It must not be a requirement for new systems built in 21 century to support the new decentralized finance.

Stakepools shall allow what I call "first party registration", where one is not forced into any 3rd party to sign up with a service. Let users have a choice on their account recovery.

Please add 'privacy' label.
Similar to decred/politeia#554.
Related to #259.

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I've thought about this a bit as well. Seems to me that you could make your wallet your key where you simply prove who you are via signature.

@xaur xaur changed the title Make email optional privacy: Make email optional Nov 17, 2018
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xaur commented Feb 10, 2019

Yes, that would be public key based authentication (#291). As I understand, developers avoid novel authentication schemes to cut costs on research and possible rabbit holes.

But that's not required to drop the dinosaur email requirement. Just allow to use login+password like in good old times.

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