# Ethereum based forum accounts: good idea or...not so much?

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**Category:** 💡 Ideas\
**Created:** [October 14, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://tec.mycostack.xyz/t/ethereum-based-forum-accounts-good-idea-or-not-so-much/668 "2021-10-14T19:39:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamara](https://tec.mycostack.xyz/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@Tamara](https://tec.mycostack.xyz/u/Tamara)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://tec.mycostack.xyz/t/ethereum-based-forum-accounts-good-idea-or-not-so-much/668/1 "2021-10-14T19:39:13Z")

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While registering on the Gnosis forum, I saw the option to create an account using an Ethereum address. I decided to try it because, why not. 🤷‍♂️

My “why not” reaction is not exactly a deep analysis so I wonder what the community thinks. Is that a feature we would consider for our forum? What might you consider are the advantages or disadvantages of doing so? Is it even possible with Discourse (I _think_ that is what they are using too but have not confirmed).

![Screen Shot 2021-10-14 at 9.30.00 PM](https://web.archive.org/web/2026im_/https://forum.tecommons.org/uploads/default/original/1X/724b04a647fb9a2825004df368a631e3e10e7b52.png)

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![Screen Shot 2021-10-14 at 9.30.17 PM](https://web.archive.org/web/2026im_/https://forum.tecommons.org/uploads/default/original/1X/8995bcabfde73e4bbc431dab4ae9ba05d357fa2c.png)

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**Author:** ![ZeptimusQ](https://tec.mycostack.xyz/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f19dbf/32.png) [@ZeptimusQ](https://tec.mycostack.xyz/u/ZeptimusQ)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://tec.mycostack.xyz/t/ethereum-based-forum-accounts-good-idea-or-not-so-much/668/2 "2021-10-15T12:14:05Z")

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This is awesome tam! Get that feature would grant us the option to create an account without the need of Google or any similar company

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**Author:** ![gideonro](https://tec.mycostack.xyz/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@gideonro](https://tec.mycostack.xyz/u/gideonro)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://tec.mycostack.xyz/t/ethereum-based-forum-accounts-good-idea-or-not-so-much/668/3 "2021-10-15T21:29:07Z")

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Interesting. It’s smart having Ethereum as an option to sign-in. That way we don’t block any curious explorers in the shorter-term, but actively bridge our community to where we want to be over time. I wonder how hard it’d be to start pressing all our toolmakers to make this possible.

Here’s one possible implementation, with WalletConnect support. I can’t tell if this is what Gnosis used though:

[https://talk.fission.codes/t/ethereum-login-for-discourse/70](https://talk.fission.codes/t/ethereum-login-for-discourse/70)

[https://github.com/fission-suite/discourse-web3-login](https://github.com/fission-suite/discourse-web3-login)