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| hardman-zooko-and-houdini-a-flatland-parable | paper | Zooko and Houdini: A Flatland Parable | https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/zh.html | Daniel Hardman | quiet | 2026-10-15 | 2024-06-20 | 2024 | intro | informative | public | A primer by Daniel Hardman that uses a Flatland parable to argue that Zooko's triangle (an identifier can be at most two of secure, decentralized and human-friendly) dissolves once human-friendliness is treated as local to each user, like entries in an address book. It recommends discovering identifiers through attributes people choose and resolving to secure, decentralized identifiers when a protocol runs. For readers thinking about identifier naming and usability. | Daniel Hardman | 1.1 | hardman-papers | 1 | 0 |