Nacho is the mobile keystore that issues and manages sovereign Bitcoin names on Spaces Protocol. It's not a traditional wallet. It holds the keys for your handles so you can register a name, attach records, and prove ownership against Bitcoin without sending or receiving coins.
In this episode we walk through how Nacho works today and why Spaces Protocol is positioned to become the default naming standard on Bitcoin.
A handle like curious@bitcoin is issued under a top-level Space. The top-level Space itself (such as @bitcoin) is won through an open auction on Bitcoin.
Verify yourself: https://explorer.spacesprotocol.org/@bitcoin
Once the handle is issued, the operator commits a 32-byte root on Bitcoin that proves the handle exists in the set. The handle owner receives a certificate that lets anyone verify ownership against that root. Once issued, the name is non-revocable. No registrar, no yearly fee and no authority can take it away if you hold the keys.
✍️Why Nacho is a keystore rather than a wallet, and how a single seed phrase backs multiple handles
✍️Adding records (Bitcoin address, Lightning, Nostr npub, website, socials) that resolve to one name verified on Bitcoin
✍️Upcoming bidirectional verification with zkTLS so linked X, Telegram, or GitHub accounts can be checked without trusting a central server
✍️The new explorer that indexes both on-chain roots and off-chain records
✍️Why Spaces succeeds where earlier naming systems did not: open auctions with burned bids, no premine, and Bitcoin as the sole root of trust
Spaces does for naming what Bitcoin did for money. Names live off-chain for scale, but every proof is checked against Bitcoin. No middleman can freeze or revoke what the chain has confirmed.
https://youtu.be/5lo_shdgdr0
#Bitcoin #zktls #spacesprotocol #index #bidirectional #nost #lightning #nacho #keystore #handle
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