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summary: 'a standard that allows you to use an email or domain syntax to pay someone instead of an address, eg. donate@getmonero.org or donate.getmonero.org'
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terms: ["OpenAlias"]
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{% include disclaimer.html translated="no" translationOutdated="no" %}
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### The Basics
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The Monero Core Team released a standard called OpenAlias which permits much
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more human-readable addresses and "squares" the Zooko's triangle. OpenAlias
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can be used for any cryptocurrency and is already implemented in Monero,
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Bitcoin (in latest Electrum versions) and HyperStake.
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OpenAlias seeks to provide a way to simplify aliasing amidst a rapidly
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shifting technology climate. Users are trying to cross the bridge to private
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and cryptographically secure infrastructure and systems, but many of them
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have just barely started remembering the email addresses of their friends
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and family.
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As part of the ongoing development of the Monero cryptocurrency project, we asked ourselves: how can we simplify payments for users unfamiliar with cryptocurrency? Monero stealth addresses are at least 95 characters long - memorizing them is not an option, and asking someone to send a payment to <95-character-string> is only going to lead to confusion.
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At its most basic, OpenAlias is a TXT DNS record on a FQDN (fully qualified
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domain name). By combining this with DNS-related technologies we have
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created an aliasing standard that is extensible for developers, intuitive
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and familiar for users, and can interoperate with both centralized and
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decentralized domain systems.
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A standard that allows you to use an email or domain syntax to pay someone
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instead of an address, eg. donate@getmonero.org or donate.getmonero.org.
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More information can be found on the [OpenAlias
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website](https://openalias.org)
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