Names
A bWalletX name is alice@bwalletx.com, or $alice for short. It points to one wallet’s identity key. People pay the name, and the money goes to that key.
Signed by its owner
Section titled “Signed by its owner”Your wallet signs a short statement: “this name points to my key, version N”. Our name server hands that signature out with the key. We can’t make that signature for a key we don’t hold.
Before every payment to a bWalletX name, the paying wallet checks it and shows one of three things:
- Signed by its owner. The key’s holder put this name on this key.
- Not signed by its owner yet. A grey note. The payment still works. Wallets sign their names when they next open.
- Bad signature. The payment is blocked.
If a name’s key changes after you’ve paid it before, the wallet stops and asks before paying the new key.
The public name log
Section titled “The public name log”Every change to who a name points to is written to a public, hash-chained log, including changes we make ourselves (marked admin). Read it at https://pay.bwallet.space/api/paymail/name-log. More in Name bindings for developers and at bwalletx.com/name-bindings.
Hand a name to someone else
Section titled “Hand a name to someone else”A handover needs two signatures: the current owner signs a release, and the new owner signs to accept. Our server can’t move a name on its own.
Status
Section titled “Status”- ✓ Owner-signed names, checked before paying
- ✓ Key-change warning
- ✓ Public name log
- ✓ Two-party handovers
- ◻ Daily on-chain anchor of the log
- ◻ On-chain names (OpNS) as the long-term home for names