namecoins

[hbstout]

What wallet accepts namecoins?  What are they anyway?  Can they be converted to bitcoins? Help please.

"A Total Newbie"

[Muhammed Zakir]

First of all, welcome to the forum.

What wallet accepts namecoins?

You can use namecoin-client if you want to use your namecoins and it will be more secure or open an account at any exchanges like cryptsy.com , if you want to trade it.

What are they anyway?

Namecoin is an altcoin , it is an alternative for BTC.

Can they be converted to bitcoins? Help please.

Yes, it can be converted to BTC and other currencies. Use exchanges like cryptsy.com .

P.S. Some useful links:- Namecoin website : namecoin.info , announcement(ANN) on this forum : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236375.0

   ~~MZ~~

[Buziss]

What wallet accepts namecoins?  What are they anyway?  Can they be converted to bitcoins? Help please.

"A Total Newbie"

You can download the official wallet on http://namecoin.info/?p=download
NMC is the very first fork of bitcoin.
You can convert it to bitcoin on all altcoin exchanges.

[TinEye]

Namecoin started on a good idea, but failed to go anywhere. There are now 2.0 projects which aim to do what namecoin did and much more.

Merge mining with BTC meant that it was something which miners mined for free and sold for extra profit.