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privacy: Make email optional
Only 20 stakepools know email addresses of people holding some 50% tickets. I don't know exact percentage, but it is big enough to be a concern.
Email is obsolete, legacy, ancient, anti-privacy comm system. It must not be a requirement for new systems built in 21 century to support the new decentralized finance.
Stakepools shall allow what I call "first party registration", where one is not forced into any 3rd party to sign up with a service. Let users have a choice on their account recovery.
Please add 'privacy' label. Similar to decred/politeia#554. Related to #259.
I've thought about this a bit as well. Seems to me that you could make your wallet your key where you simply prove who you are via signature.
Yes, that would be public key based authentication (#291). As I understand, developers avoid novel authentication schemes to cut costs on research and possible rabbit holes.
But that's not required to drop the dinosaur email requirement. Just allow to use login+password like in good old times.