Check wiki for older ideas whose time may have come :)

[clockworkgr]

This came up on bitshares DEX telegram group from a community member

A client wants to have a game developed, where each player is given a wallet (to handle an in game currency). My question is how to ensure unique account names? Is there an api to an online block explorer where I could query whether an account name is in use? Or would we need to run a full node and use the cli to query the blockchain itself? Or just fire off create user transactions, and if it doesn't work, pick a different name?

This reminded me that account namespacing had been suggested in the past and goign through the WIKI to find the reference, I saw there is a wealth of interesting tidbits here and there worth evaluating/looking into again.

Account namespacing is discussed by @theoreticalbts under Namespacing here:
https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/wiki/architecture

but there's more interesting stuff on that page and other older wiki pages.

@ryanRfox wanna have a look through?

[pmconrad]

Good ticket, had a similar thought yesterday when I ran across this page: https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/wiki/theoretical-theories

As to the account creation question - looking up existing account names would probably be helpful if they let their users select account names. In case though, they must fire off the create user transaction and wait until it is past the last irreversible block before they can use the account.

[ryanRfox]

Good topic @clockworkgr. Yes, will have a look thru the Wiki to pull out interesting topics and create Issues (or find old ones and revive the discussion).