[NMC] Namecoin News Thread

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Namecoin is a decentralized key/value storage system with integrated currency based on Bitcoin technology. It is being used as a decentralized DNS system (.bit) and has the potential for a ton of other things like a web of trust, voting, personal id, bonds, etc.. More here: http://namecoin.info http://dot-bit.org

Like Bitcoin means freedom for money Namecoin means freedom for information.

A lot of things have been going on behind the scenes lately. This thread is meant to be a comfortable way for you to stay up to date. It will be locked all the time and only contain the essence of crisp official announcements so you can safely activate the watch feature for this thread.

Comments and discussion about Namecoin is of course very welcome and goes here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6017

If you would like something to be posted in this thread PM this account. It is currently held by me, phelix, though this might change.

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Namecoin TLS (Transport Layer Security, = https / SSL) implementation for Firefox: http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4285#p4285


Coming up: Namecoin-QT v4.0

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Namecoin-QT v3.63 with fancy GUI, in GUI name registration and much more

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236375.0 - unofficial beta for now, be safe.

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A quite good introduction to Namecoin (thanks to lunarboy for the suggestion):

http://www.coindesk.com/what-are-namecoins-and-bit-domains/

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Finally the official release: Namecoin with GUI (Namecoin-Qt) vQ.3.70

http://namecoin.info

Thanks to snailbrain, thecoder and all other contributers!

sha256 sources tag "vQ.3.70b" namecoinq-vQ.3.70b.zip 3d329138a13f55114187cb278af950d280eaa5522c5f9bae6c42a5ed6a1d7f6e
sha256 win binary namecoin_win_v0.3.70b.zip 42c2cec9f4345ea03e74557c88151e37570e6a791f18dc89dd6f34a36c3f3719


Cheers to the fans but we have to keep the news thread clean

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Namecoin with GUI (Namecoin-Qt) vQ.3.71c
A small fix concerning the format of registered .bit domains.

http://namecoin.info

Thanks to snailbrain, thecoder and all other contributers!

sha256 sources tag namecoinq-vQ.3.71c.zip 38f6d8259e30600574b051b0444428d5e241e4c0df046e84480dae2721bb39d1
sha256 win binary namecoin_win_vQ.3.71.zip 560c315184d006948930849f5bf9f7889db6cc0802e6ea3a9186896fc9a15b7b

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A severe bug has been found in the name verification code.
Do NOT buy names from anybody you don't trust 100% until it is fixed.

More info here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=310954

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Out now: Namecoin-Qt & daemon with the name enforcing bug fixed.

Github: https://github.com/namecoinq/namecoinq/tree/vQ.3.72

Source archive: https://github.com/namecoinq/namecoinq/archive/vQ.3.72.zip
sha256: 7a47611cd4dff27fbf64ccff9ef524ec33046993a2e9cb3efcb978ef1077d5dc

Windows binary: http://namecoin.info/files/namecoin_win_vQ.3.72.zip
sha256: 462bb3f71780a22da11c69589410a98227c429821391a9389aea45ef046be58c  

This is what the fixed version will do:
* the name database is rebuild enforcing strict ownership of names
   --> if you install this version you can once again trust the key-value pairs 100%
      
* to retain compatibility bad name operations are allowed in blocks for a while but are completely ignored
    
* after block 150k bad transactions are disallowed in blocks
   --> this is a potential hard fork so everybody needs to have updated by then

Thanks to:
libcoin of kraken.com for finding and reporting the bug and also for helping with the fix.
thecoder and snailbrain for the fix.
khal and everyone else verifying, testing and supplying patches.
all donators and moral supporters.


Stronger than ever: Namecoin - freedom of information

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Do not use Namecoin with the (uncommon) option "rpcssl=1" (this is to use rpc over ssl) as it is affected by the Heartbleed openSSL bug. See http://heartbleed.com/ and http://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?p=10775#p10775
If you only use Namecoin locally and did not change your config file you should not be affected.

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In case somebody missed it:

Softfork upcoming with block 212500 (around New Year's Eve). Pool operators and solo miners please update to v0.3.80 asap. Regular users are recommended to update, too. See the Release notes.

http://namecoin.info

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Namecoin is affected by the Consensus Bug. Be careful and wait for confirmations.

https://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2354

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Important: Miners must update their clients

see https://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?p=15265&f=2

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 A vulnerability was found in Bitcoin Core. It allows an attack from malicious peers in the local network via UPNP. Namecoin is affected, too, so everybody should turn off UPNP until further notice (see Bitcoin link).