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

[Bitcoin5oot]

Do you guys have any social media accounts?

Also, what do you do to advertise and market the project?

I invite you to showcase it on the BitcoinRoot project for the general crypto audience to notice your project.

[romerosilva]

Very good, take my doubts related to the domain name.

[domob]

Info: About the actual situation of the Namecoin project please see this summary!

Correction: For the personal view about the situation of the Namecoin project by someone who's not been involved in the project/community so far, see that link.

[estenity]

Info: About the actual situation of the Namecoin project please see this summary!

Correction: For the personal view about the situation of the Namecoin project by someone who's not been involved in the project/community so far, see that link.

any response to enlighten us ?

[estenity]

thanks so much for clarifying.

[hornetsnest]

Namecoin should dump all that .bit shyte and concentrate on being just a currency like the bitcorn

[nutildah]

Namecoin should dump all that .bit shyte and concentrate on being just a currency like the bitcorn

 

-1 Merit

[hornetsnest]

Namecoin should dump all that .bit shyte and concentrate on being just a currency like the bitcorn

 

-1 Merit

Thats my first merit with a  - minus

Salute

[lin_lin]

Trade of namecoin has been suspended on livecoin.net . Is it renew of namecoin or problem of  livecoin.net?

[STT]

and concentrate on being just a currency

Because we need another duplicate ?  Its better every project recognises and works towards the utility they want to enable, if it already exists in Bitcoin then you are not likely to especially succeed when so many are already out there following the same tracks hoping the same thing.   Theres a good graph that goes some way to explaining why BTC manages to continue on as the main blockchain despite the alternatives and I believe its related to security quite strongly, having the longest most established chain.   Namecoin does have the years on its side at least so should be more credible then many.

[gartmah]

namecoin announced an updated version of Electrum NMC v3.3.9.1 which included some innovations and bug fixes https://www.namecoin.org/2020/04/17/electrum-nmc-v3.3.9.1-released.html

[mafia]

Would this be similar to .crypto and .eth TLD?

[domob]

Would this be similar to .crypto and .eth TLD?

Similar yes, except this is much older and fully decentralised (while at least .eth has a backdoor, I don't know much about .crypto).

[BayAreaCoins]

FreeBitcoins.com is syncing Namecoin right now and we intend on listing NMC on our "XChange".

We should be rocking and rolling by the end of the week I'd imagine... assuming she syncs decently!

*tips hat at domob*

[versprichnix]

FreeBitcoins.com is syncing Namecoin right now and we intend on listing NMC on our "XChange".

We should be rocking and rolling by the end of the week I'd imagine... assuming she syncs decently!

*tips hat at domob*

Has FreeBitcoins.com disposable deposit addresses?

[mishax1]

Similar yes, except this is much older and fully decentralised (while at least .eth has a backdoor, I don't know much about .crypto).

Correction: The Namecoin blockchain is fully decentralized, the Namecoin project itself got hijacked by a guy called Jeremy Rand. Namecoin is his playground, and he thinks the community would have to guzzle what he dishes! Be aware of! See again this thread!

And PS: Everyone should know, that the Electrum-wallet is a light weight wallet without own database, so there are some Electrum server running which are providing the blockchain. So surely this is no longer a real decentralized peer-to-peer network. At the moment there's a server/client model you can call in the best case an hybrid solution! So congrats once again to “J.R.”, who provided "his" Electrum-wallet, leading away from the decentralized nature of the Namecoin-project!

So Namecoin no longer being maintained by the original development team?  since when?

[domob]

Similar yes, except this is much older and fully decentralised (while at least .eth has a backdoor, I don't know much about .crypto).

Correction: The Namecoin blockchain is fully decentralized, the Namecoin project itself got hijacked by a guy called Jeremy Rand. Namecoin is his playground, and he thinks the community would have to guzzle what he dishes! Be aware of! See again this thread!

And PS: Everyone should know, that the Electrum-wallet is a light weight wallet without own database, so there are some Electrum server running which are providing the blockchain. So surely this is no longer a real decentralized peer-to-peer network. At the moment there's a server/client model you can call in the best case an hybrid solution! So congrats once again to “J.R.”, who provided "his" Electrum-wallet, leading away from the decentralized nature of the Namecoin-project!

So Namecoin no longer being maintained by the original development team?  since when?

Namecoin is still being maintained by the same team and developed with the same direction and goals in mind as for the last couple of years.

[BayAreaCoins]

FreeBitcoins.com is syncing Namecoin right now and we intend on listing NMC on our "XChange".

We should be rocking and rolling by the end of the week I'd imagine... assuming she syncs decently!

*tips hat at domob*

Has FreeBitcoins.com disposable deposit addresses?

We have disposable accounts... I think that's safer than having multiple addresses linked to a single account.

If you'd like a new deposit address, just create a new account.

In the future we probably will add disposable accounts for people that more easily want to keep up with their altcoin history + have a little more blockchain privacy.

[BayAreaCoins]

Our arena is live and ready to rock n roll:  https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/BTC_NMC

As our XChange grows, this will give our "Swap" tool liquidity to work with.  Swap allows users to do market orders on XChange without signing up for an account with us.  It's a lot like Shapeshift used to be.  Namecoin is listed here as well of course.  https://freebitcoins.com/swap/

Both XChange and Swap have API's for people looking for automation or additional privacy (no javascript).

Gl and Hf.  Hollar at me if y'all need me or have updates or have any questions.

Thanks!

[PatrickMacH]

Namecoin should dump all that .bit shyte and concentrate on being just a currency like the bitcorn

As the term “Namecoin” suggests, the primary purpose of the blockchain is to register/resolve domain names and identities. By the way: If we won't get the .bit TDL finally established and widely accepted, then the whole project might come to an end at the latest when someone comes up with the idea to register the .bit TDL in the regular ICANN namespace, with about 200,000 USD you are in! These are peanuts for interested investors! At the moment the .bit TDL is only a pseudo top level domain and just tolerated, but without any legal protection! Just as warning to the nerd “J.R.” squatting on namecoin.org claiming to be the incarnation and “owner” of the Namecoin project! The original creator and developers of Namecoin have left the sinking ship already years ago, so it's finally time to get a new crew before it's too late!

For sure, we all would love to see ICANN donating the .bit TLD to the Namecoin project, but for this to happen, Namecoin needs to meet the legal requirements of ICANN first, which is conflicting to the aim of the project.

The developers of Namecoin have always been actively promoting the principles of this project, so don't blame them for the fact that .bit TLD has not established, yet.

There has never been public pressure on ICANN to support this project for the sake of free speech. That's not the fault of the Namecoin developers.

Sidenote:

Since 2015 there is a fork of Namecoin because the .bit TLD was never established: SixElevenCoin

Since that date, blockchain registered domain name objects of 611coin are published using the anonymous SLD .611.to.

611coin is an accepted #cryptocurrency #blockchain domain namespace. The SLD .611.to is listed in the Public Suffix List which is used by major Browser and SSL authorities.

And like Namecoin, 611coin is an Open Source project: GitHub 611project