[announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin

[S3cco]

Will Namecoin Market Capitalization be over $7M at the end of 1st half 2016? Yes or no? Dare to bet in Bitcoin?
https://www.betmoose.com/bet/namecoin-over-7m-market-cap-end-of-1st-half-2016-1534?ref=scacco

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[Poloniex Matthew]

The point here is to validate ownership of names, not restrict the total number of names or in the system to an arbitrary upper limit, right?

If so, would it be possible to tie in the difficulty of the proof-of-work to be based on the number of new name requests seen in the past two weeks?  That is, the more requests, the easier the difficulty of hashing a block, and the more quickly blocks are generated?  POW would also obviously have to be tied into the amount of processing power being thrown at the network as well.

[phelix]

The point here is to validate ownership of names, not restrict the total number of names or in the system to an arbitrary upper limit, right?

If so, would it be possible to tie in the difficulty of the proof-of-work to be based on the number of new name requests seen in the past two weeks?  That is, the more requests, the easier the difficulty of hashing a block, and the more quickly blocks are generated?  POW would also obviously have to be tied into the amount of processing power being thrown at the network as well.

The way it is implemented there is the currency in between.


btw: Help needed testing this Namecoin id/ pgp keyserver: https://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2476

btw2: The rebased client is humming along nicely. There is an external rpc GUI frontend for name operations with the new client available (nameGUI, includes experimental secure name trading). Even the manage name tabs might come back to the new client.

btw3: There is a roadmap now (work in progress) that shows some of things that are currently going on: https://github.com/namecoin/meta/blob/master/roadmap.md

[m4nki]

Following with interest.

[Fire Rabbit]

I wonder if this coin will ever take off. 

[bigs21024]

I wonder if this coin will ever take off. 

m i wish i had some of the

[avariahb]

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[bitcoinpete]

Big price hike in Namecoin somebody know whats cooking?

[cassini]

Big price hike in Namecoin somebody know whats cooking?

Looks like the usual pump-and-dump pattern that starts with unrelated altcoin news (here: Ethereum) and later spills over to other altcoins (this time PPC and NMC).

However, there could also be some rich investors in Asia^{capital flow control} and Europe^{Quantitative Easing}. They are starting to look for alternative storage of value, and therefore invest in altcoins with a robust infrastructure and an up-to-date Core codebase.

[mishax1]

Someone said it has something to do with https://zeronet.io/

[iCEBREAKER]

Someone said it has something to do with https://zeronet.io/

What an elegant extension of Namecoin.

DotBit lives!!!   

[Elwar]

I have some namecoins, I would rather the coins become commonplace than worry about the price. I invested in NMC because I can see it as a great tool for the future of the Internet.

Hopefully the .bit domain becomes commonplace.

[marcus_of_augustus]

Someone said it has something to do with https://zeronet.io/

What an elegant extension of Namecoin.

DotBit lives!!!   

looks like they are going the right way about it so far, so easy to get your own secure site up.

[Frogman]

could we see a $100 namecoin in the near future?

[cyberhacker]

could we see a $100 namecoin in the near future?

quite possible.  the wind is coming for the next generation of internet.

[mishax1]

could we see a $100 namecoin in the near future?

Not if we see the Bitcoin at 100$ instead.

[Elwar]

Namecoin is about 6 months behind Bitcoin as far as halving right? So we will get a good indication of the price trend by what Bitcoin does the second half of this year.

[Frogman]

Namecoin is about 6 months behind Bitcoin as far as halving right? So we will get a good indication of the price trend by what Bitcoin does the second half of this year.

ummm i thought it was like 3 years behind bitcoin

[Elwar]

Namecoin is about 6 months behind Bitcoin as far as halving right? So we will get a good indication of the price trend by what Bitcoin does the second half of this year.

ummm i thought it was like 3 years behind bitcoin

Yep, I have no idea where I got that number from. Last halving was 2014 so I imagine the next NMC halving is around 2018.

[Frogman]

Namecoin is about 6 months behind Bitcoin as far as halving right? So we will get a good indication of the price trend by what Bitcoin does the second half of this year.

ummm i thought it was like 3 years behind bitcoin

Yep, I have no idea where I got that number from. Last halving was 2014 so I imagine the next NMC halving is around 2018.

does anybody know anything about this coin as far as plans for the .bit domain? shouldnt this coin be worth at least 100 bucks by now. who is in charge of making the .bit domain thing happen?