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I am mining in Slush's pool, and read that I can get "free" Namecoins if I can provide an address.
After doing some Googling, there are posts recommending registering an account on Crypto X Change, but the site has been closed down long ago.
The default Namecoin client doesn't seem to be very user friendly.
Can anyone advice me on the best way to get started with Namecoin?

You just have to start the namecoin client and you get your wallet automatically.
It's pretty similar to bitcoin.

Either get the namecoin-client (if you actually want to use your namecoins),
or an account at vircurex.com (if you just want to trade your namecoins for bitcoins)

I clicked on namecoind.exe, a console pops up. A few seconds later, the console just disappeared and nothing happened....

Vircurex seems to charge a huge amount on withdrawal....
My whole Bitcoin wallet consists of 0.0002 BTC....

I created an account on btc-e.com and just park my namecoins there.

Thanks. The fees seem more reasonable for btc-e.com

thanks, very useful!

if u wanna namecoin "offline" client try:
http://dot-bit.org/InstallAndConfigureNamecoin

There is a namecoin client and a GUI also but take care because the wallet cannot be encrypted. You can put it in a truetype container or encrypt it with 7z.
They are less namecoins than bitcoins and it is a great idea behind it. Now you can buy them cheap and one day they could be as valorous as bitcoins.

Thanks, I was also wondering about namecoin wallets.

From what I've read on his site there aren't many being made anymore and he is phasing them out. I think he said only 7% of the pool is still working in a way that generates namecoins.

Are you talking about BitMinter?

the problem with namecoin is downloading the blockchain. it's a pain.

do they even worth something?

In this thread it was suggested to use vircurex as the target for mining income. But when i log into vircurex and see the deposit addresses i see on the bottom that they claim they cant credit coins that are generated. It would have been ideal to use it for bitparking.com but now im not sure. Is it only that they dont like it or doesnt it work really to mine directly on these addresses?

Otherwise... is there a wallet i can use that can receive devcoin, groupcoin, namecoin, ixcoin and i0coin? I dont really want to download each wallet and each blockchain.

EDIT: My bad... when mining at bitparking its not the same like solomining. Coins from bitparking are sent, so can be credited... sorry...

Mine btc and get name coin at the same time.

 I was also wondering about namecoin wallets

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236375.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=58821.0

You can try this free online namecoin wallet:

http://nmc-wallet.com/?re=10923

after long time why this thread alive again now I have namecoin wallet through cryptsy.com and its working ok for me

nice try, 呵呵
Jan 3rd: domain registered
Jan 5th: amateurish copy of ftc-wallet.com trickster site (http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=2436.0) uploaded
Jan 7th: announcement (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=403688.0) at the chinese section
Jan 8th: announcement here at the altcoins

Jan 14 scam...

21/01/14 22:24:35 3237960e09f9cd95a597c34d20873a3556f9d17d7b1b210850e749c52ef1b5f3 ~1.4049 received 158214 N7x5BvG1YEn9R7htwKMTwwzNpVeUmQJwN9
20/01/14 13:37:55 f5d2927806243055eaae40a56a8fa838ce6c9f7a62c222898f3cc8fae4feaf1a 0.0700 received 157986 N7x5BvG1YEn9R7htwKMTwwzNpVeUmQJwN9

TOTAL SCAM!!!

They got me for 12 NMC.  I reported them to namecheap.com and evos.com.

Good luck to me. 

Source BETA:

https://github.com/namecoin-qt/namecoin-qt

Binaries (lion+, windows)
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/3aa8ukj7v6m5d/Namecoin-qt

if anyone would like to donate for the work done on the QT (and further development, state request), it would very much appreciated :

NMC: N5Nw4uk8NNd3UcoJ9jPD5Towdxr9wyGuN6
BTC: 19wDA8D9fnYdp71DhQygWYktHnmW4ygTN9



for more information about namecoin :

http://dot-bit.org/FAQ
http://namecoin.info/

Nice try.

If anyone would like to donate for the work done, it should be done to the official donation addresses which can be found on http://namecoin.info/.