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

[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

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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?

[coinpr0n]

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?

AFAIK it works ... you need a browser extension and they were working on lightweight version a while back that might be out already.

[deepceleron]

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?

It works now to the full extent possible, but domain names registered in Namecoin will never be available to the common person as simply a dot bit unless someone were to spend the $100K to buy the .bit top level registrar name, and someone running the .bit domain still would undermine the decentralized trust that the blockchain provides.

With configuration to hook your local computer's DNS to the namecoin blockchain, your local computer can look up namecoin domain names as dot.bit or any other tld you want. There are also various sites on the web that make namecoindomain.otherdomain.com work, or block explorers that allow you to look up the data stored in domain names more easily than running the software yourself.

[Elwar]

Wouldn't there be a way for someone to set up a server that acts as a DNS that includes namecoin domains?

Then you just point your computer DNS to that computer...what am I missing here?