Identify Blockstack Users Within Gaia for Block Survey Migration

[andresgalante]

Block Survey is migrating away from Hiro's hosted Gaia Hub and needs a way to identify Blockstack users within Gaia. Specifically, we need to:

• Translate a user's domain name into their Gaia hub address.
• Access any APIs or methods that can help with user identification in this context.

Current Findings

• All Block Survey customers use the https://blocksurvey.io/ domain.
• Users have .btc or .id.blockstack domains.
• Some users do not have BNS names and are identified only via their wallet seed phrase.

Example User IDs

• compressstudio1.id.blockstack
• daniavorszky.id.blockstack
• david.id

Next Steps

• Investigate how to resolve user domain names to Gaia hub addresses.
• Determine the best approach for identifying users who lack BNS names.
• Estimate the effort needed:
  • Optimistically: 1-2 days for research and coding, followed by 1-2 days for DevOps and script execution.
  • Realistically: ~1.5 weeks.

cc: @zone117x

[andresgalante]

Here are the file names which will be there on BlockSurvey users Gaia:

mysurveysindex.json
blocksurvey_pgp_profile.json