I'm only getting namecoins because it comes with my bitcoins compliments of BTC Guild. I'd love to use them, but I couldn't even get a local wallet installed properly. For those of us that don't have the time to study a technology's inner workings, I've found Namecoin useless. Give me a simple GUI application that allows me to utilize Namecoin for URL's and that displays all these crazy options. If the average user can't use a technology it doesn't have a chance for mainstream. Bitcoin is still a bit too hard for people outside of this community. Entrepenures that are actually paying for websites to sell goods or maintain a news/social community aren't going to be able to use Namecoin. Its a technology that is iffy for .onion developers. That doesn't say much.
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