DOM Wallet has added new Bitcoin Culture features, including The Register of Names and a new entry in the Ruins section, giving users new ways to explore and interact with Bitcoin history.
Available through BitcoinCulture.xyz, The Register of Names presents hundreds of names linked to Bitcoin, including people, institutions, protocols, memes and other historical references. Users can search the collection and seal a name onto a real Bitcoin block.
Some names are connected to blocks associated with key moments in Bitcoin’s history. Genesis is linked to block 0, while the first Bitcoin transaction is recorded on block 170. Other blocks are available for users to claim and name.
Each seal costs 0.05 ICP, with the project stating that the ICP used is burned. This ties the naming feature into the broader burn mechanics used across the DOM Wallet experience.
The update also adds QuadrigaCX to the Ruins section. The Canadian cryptocurrency exchange collapsed following the death of founder Gerald Cotten in December 2018, after customers were left unable to access funds held by the platform.
A subsequent investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission found that several of QuadrigaCX’s Bitcoin cold wallets had already been emptied before Cotten’s death. The investigation also found that cryptocurrency had been transferred to accounts controlled by Cotten and used for trading activity.
The new Ruins entry, titled “QuadrigaCX: the vault that died with one man”, presents the exchange’s collapse as a warning about custody and the risks of relying on centralised control.
For DOM Wallet users, the update brings together two different ways of engaging with Bitcoin history. The Register of Names lets users permanently associate names with Bitcoin blocks, while Ruins records events that have shaped how the cryptocurrency community thinks about custody, ownership and trust.
The additions continue DOM Wallet’s focus on combining on-chain tools with ways to explore and record cryptocurrency history.
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