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<title>Open Alias – LandChad.net</title>
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<header><h1>Open Alias</h1></header>
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<nav></nav>
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<main>
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<h2>The Problem</h2>
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<p>
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Cryptocurrency can be unintuitive.
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After all, look at this annoying Monero address of ours:
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<ul>
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<li><code class=crypto>84RXmrsE7ffCe1ADprxLMHRpmyhZuWYScDR4YghE8pFRFSyLtiZFYwD6EPijVzD3aZiEpg57MfHEr1pGJNPXyJgENMnWrSh</code></p>
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It breaks up pages and looks ugly. When you copy and paste it to send money, you might be paranoid that you somehow added an extra character in there.
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That's all around a bad user experience.
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</p>
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<h3>It would be nice...</h3>
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It would be nice if we could just input someone's email address or maybe a website and send Bitcoin or Monero to that instead.
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So instead of that long jumble, it would be easier to just type in someone's website or email and sending them money that way.
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<h2>The Solution</h2>
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<p>The <a href="https://openalias.org/">OpenAlias</a> standards are just that.
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It uses <a href="dns.html">DNS</a> settings, which you know something about, to link a website or an email address with a cryptocurrency address.
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It allows someone to simply put <code>landchad.net</code> or <code>chad@landchad.net</code> as a payment recipient and that will direct to that long address above.
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The default Monero wallet and Bitcoin's Electrum are already compatible with OpenAlias, as are a growing group of wallet software.
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<h2>Let's do it.</h2>
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Open up your domain registar (<a href="https://www.epik.com/?affid=we2ro7sa6">Epik</a>, if you have religiously followed our tutorials) and open up your DNS settings for the website you would like to add.
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</p>
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Open the <strong>TXT record</strong> section.
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Now, create an entry with text like that below:
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<pre><code>oa1:xmr recipient_address=<strong>84RXmrsE7ffCe1ADprxLMHRpmyhZuWYScDR4YghE8pFRFSyLtiZFYwD6EPijVzD3aZiEpg57MfHEr1pGJNPXyJgENMnWrSh</strong>; recipient_name=<strong>LandChad.net</strong>;</code></pre>
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<p>Obviously change the address to your desired address and you may also give a proper name for yourself (this may be multiple words).
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Note that the entry above is <strong>all one line</strong>.
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</p>
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Now create a new TXT entry and input this text into the <strong>TXT Value</strong> input box.
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Note here that I have create two entries:
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<a href=pix/openalias-01.png><img src="pix/openalias-01.png" alt="openalias"></a>
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One entry's "Host" is left empty, this will allow people to send Monero by merely typing <code>landchad.net</code>.
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The second entry has "chad" as the "Host"; this will allow people to send money to <code>chad@landchad.net</code>, i.e.
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this is how you allow people to connect a Monero address with an email address.
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<h3>Checking to see if it works...</h3>
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Let's check to see if it works.
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In the Monero wallet, we can now type in <code>landchad.net</code> as a recipient:
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<a href=pix/openalias-02.png><img src="pix/openalias-02.png" alt="checking"></a>
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And once we press the "Resolve" button, it automatically turns into that address we gave to the DNS!
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<a href=pix/openalias-03.png><img src="pix/openalias-03.png" alt="It works!"></a>
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Now people can donate Monero to you without having to worry about QR codes or copying-and-pasting super-long public addresses!
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</p>
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<h3>Now with Bitcoin!</h3>
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OpenAlias was originally developed for Monero, but since it's such a good idea, Bitcoin wallets have implemented it as well, so let's add some TXT entries for Bitcoin.
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The OpenAlias TXT records have the same format, except for the <strong>xmr</strong> at the beginning is replaced with <strong>btc</strong> and obviously we use a Bitcoin address instead of Monero.
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<pre><code>oa1:<strong>btc</strong> recipient_address=<strong>bc1q9f3tmkhnxj8gduytdktlcw8yrnx3g028nzzsc5</strong>; recipient_name=<strong>LandChad.net</strong>;</code></pre>
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<p>Add the TXT entries in and save:</p>
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<a href=pix/openalias-04.png><img src="pix/openalias-04.png" alt="bitcoin openalias entries"></a>
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<p>And we can then check that it's working by trying to send money to <code>landchad.net</code> in Electrum.
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See that it automatically appends the address!
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<a href=pix/openalias-05.png><img src="pix/openalias-05.png" alt="electrum resolves an openalias"></a>
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<p>
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And that's it. Now users can easily send your website or email address Bitcoin or Monero without having to worry about hard to read addresses and QR codes.
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</main>
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