Separate Naming and State: Why Your Bitcoin Shop Should Not Live Only on a Rented Website
On January 9, 2025, block 878,479, a curious@bitcoin video carried a title that is easy to skip and hard to replace: SEPARATE NAMING AND STATE.
The description asked the practical version. How do you accept bitcoin for goods and services if the website is still centrally controlled?
That is the adoption question.
Not @imagine sitting in claim for a second day. Not the burn clock kissing one full coin. Those were the pictures on the explorer.
The idea underneath is older than Spaces Protocol and is why naming on Bitcoin keeps coming back.
Money already settled on a chain nobody can quietly edit. The storefront, the invoice label, and the “find me here” string still sit on DNS, a host, and a registrar.
Spaces Protocol is the attempt to pull the name off that stack and leave the page free to move. Read More: https://bitbane.com/separate-naming-and-state-why-your-bitcoin-shop-should-not-live-only-on-a-rented-website/ #Bitcoin #DNS #Storefront #BitcoinExplorer
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2026-10-03 18:13:35 UTC
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