Blockstack ID for Organisations

janreinhard.id.block · June 24, 2019, 10:11am

Hey there

I´d like to create a Blockstack ID for the company I work for. Is the Blockstack ID concept also for organisations?
Thanks in advance!

kind regards,
Jan

thinkverse · June 24, 2019, 11:55am

I don’t want to put words in Blockstack people mouth but I guess yes, an ID is and ID, I don’t think they really care if it’s a private person of an org, I mean dotpodcast.co uses the .podcast ID.

larry · June 24, 2019, 3:38pm

You can create a blockstack ID for whatever you want.

Organization ID’s make a lot of sense. At the moment (as far as I know) it isn’t possible to have a name be owned by a multi-sig address - that would allow multiple people to have control over it in your organization. This might be something that will be enabled with Blockstack’s upcoming smart contracting language. @aaron might have more info on this.

aaron · June 24, 2019, 3:58pm

You can totally use a P2SH multi-sig address for name ownership today! It just requires that you implement a lot of the features of a multi-sig wallet on your own. You’d need to implement a signer class that matches this interface:

github.com

blockstack/blockstack.js/blob/master/src/operations/signers.ts#L8




import bitcoinjs from 'bitcoinjs-lib'
import { hexStringToECPair, ecPairToAddress } from '../utils'


/**
 * @ignore
 */
export interface TransactionSigner {
  /**
   * @returns version number of the signer, currently, should always be 1
   * @private
   * @ignore
   */
  signerVersion(): number;
  /**
   * @returns a string representing the transaction signer's address
   * (usually Base58 check encoding)
   * @private

This could be done using bitcoinjs-lib. However, once you’ve implemented that, the signer would be able to issue PREORDERs, REGISTERs, UPDATEs, etc. I think that the biggest stumbling block will be validating a profile.json object from the multi-sig address.

hank · June 24, 2019, 4:28pm

Another option for an “organization ID” is to use subdomains, and a subdomain registrar. You could register “mycompany.id” and then setup a subdomain registrar to give employees free subdomains, like “hank.mycompany.id”.

I guess this all just depends on your use-case.