WE WILL NAME
That is the title of a January 18, 2025 video from the channel curious@bitcoin, and it is also the simplest way to describe what Spaces Protocol is for.
Bitcoin already lets you hold money without a bank. It does not, by itself, give you a name a person can say out loud.
Spaces Protocol is the naming layer that fixes that: community identifiers and human-readable handles anchored to Bitcoin, with no registrar in the middle.
The clip is not a keynote. It is a Saturday market check at block 879,789, with ordinary fees, a look at live auctions, and a plain argument for why naming on Bitcoin matters more than another round of collectible flipping.
The host walks through bids, rollouts, and cheap punycode names, then asks the obvious question. If a domain, a wallet name, a Nostr username, and a digital ID can live on the most secure proof-of-work chain, why are people still renting those names from someone else?
https://bitbane.com/we-will-name/ #Bitcoin #Naming #WeWillName #SpacesProtocol
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