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The keys are akin to IP addresses, which are also not so human friendly.

People are still trying to wrap their heads around decentralized naming systems. There are lots of ideas, and nothing has stuck yet in a groundbreaking way.

But yeah, the naming problem is independent of what this protocol gives us.



I think the best idea for naming is probably going to be something like giphy or what3words (though their implementation could use work since they're not directly translatable between multiple languages) where a hex address gets encoded in N words which are generally easier for people to grok than N*m (m being 2/4/8 depending on how many hex characters are encoded in which words). Choosing the words is hard though especially as you add more languages.




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