Recently, an article I wrote for Bitcoin Magazine talked about how we can use DNS underscore scoping to better abstract Lightning addresses and even create a de facto specification that could work on any resource (like a wallet or a smart contract) across all blockchains.
Impact of Rogers network outage
As you may know (unless you don’t because you have no internet), the Canadian provider Rogers is experiencing a nationwide network outage affecting internet, mobile payments, phone service, etc. Core services here at easyDNS are unaffected. We have some reports that customers attempting to pay for services are unable to do so (seems confined to […]
Our New Terms of Service Make it EASY-er to screw you
It seems like every tech company in existence has updated their terms of service over the last year, and we realized that we haven’t done that yet. Even worse, when we reviewed our own Plain English Terms of Service it became readily apparent that they were too transparent and understandable. That makes it difficult to […]
Using DNS to validate crypto addresses in fundraisers
Whether it’s for trucker protests or defending against an invasion: crypto addresses need to be validated Fundraising via cryptocurrency is officially a thing, in fact it has been going on for years. It burst into the public awareness with the Canadian trucker protest in Ottawa, when Bitcoin fundraising platform Tallycoin started up a fundraiser for […]
We’re using Bitcoin to assert our right to free speech, assembly and travel
It’s time to reclaim our rights from out-of-touch politicians All human rights come down to one: Choice. — Robert Breedlove Update Feb 11, 2022 12:20pm A State of Emergency has been declared in Ontario and the situation is evolving quickly. The announcement also included an imminent end to the provincial vaccine passports. So far we […]
The Great Google Rug Pull…
Free services always come with a day of reckoning… It was the late great FOSS pioneer Atul Chitnis, one of the first 100 clients here at easyDNS, who acquainted me with the idiom: If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. Nowhere could that be more true than with a company whose entire business […]
