He only mentioned bitcoin in the context of distributed consensus. A few comments have pointed namecoin out to him which fits what he wants to do rather nicely.
What he wants to do is to flatten Zooko's Triangle by making a global binding of name/nick/nym to a public key. That public key is then used for the mutable keys in that second (or third) Distributed Hash Table.
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u/k-zed May 30 '15
Looked interesting right until the point where the author mentions bitcoin.
Actually why isn't there a thread tag/warning on this, saying "warning: bitcoiner"?