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

[caston]

vinced: Other than the DNS code what are the major things you did to namecoin to make a new block?

[grue]

vinced: Other than the DNS code what are the major things you did to namecoin to make a new block?

you can check his commits

[caston]

ok is it ever likely to be merged in such a way that you could one the one daemon  to mine  bitcoin, namecoin or testcoin?

[gigabytecoin]

FYI: khal has opened up http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page for anybody that's still interested in namecoin!

[tuxsoul]

Hi,

I will like create a debian/ubuntu package from namecoin.

* Can you suggest one short and one full description.

I have checked the git repository, but tags are from bitcoin not of namecoin, if you check one tag (any), you will see the bitcoin code only.

If possible get tags for namecoin only, to know the code of each release ?

not oficial debian/ubuntu packages, read more ...
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2207

Greeting's.

[caston]

Namecoin difficulty varies using the same algorithm as bitcoin.  I started the difficulty at 512 to account for GPU mining being available.

Just got this today:
./namecoind getinfo


{
    "version" : 32100,
    "balance" : 1000.05000000,
    "blocks" : 2843,
    "connections" : 3,
    "proxy" : "",
    "generate" : false,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "difficulty" : 290.98376578,                 <---- Has it gone down it is it my fault for using the old version?
    "hashespersec" : 0,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1304239257,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

[grue]

    "difficulty" : 290.98376578,                 <---- Has it gone down it is it my fault for using the old version?

difficulty is just like bitcoin. if the block generation speed is too slow, it's decreased.

[khal]

The 512 value was an arbitrary choice. 290 is now the real difficulty :
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9

[grue]

The 512 value was an arbitrary choice. 290 is now the real difficulty :
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9

now it's
589.64331461

[caston]

The 512 value was an arbitrary choice. 290 is now the real difficulty :
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9

now it's
589.64331461

thanks for that.. I managed to do a couple of blocks at the old value.. has it gone up due to people actually mining it or has it just been changed again by someone?

[caston]

I do have another suggestion as well although this might be hard to get it to play nice with what's out there already but if we are going to have namecoin we also need to remember that IP addresses have their own ICAN known as IANA. We also need IPcoin.

[khal]

You can find latest linux binaries of namecoin here. They include the patch to see generated coins still not mature.
We are still waiting for someone to build a recent windows version

[edit: thanks grue]

[grue]

Latest Windows binaries (2011-05-11) last commit: Wed May 11 02:12:41
http://min.us/mvfHZcE
SHA-1: 720DBFD0DCA254CB621F498A3EDE08E4B6F65E63

[caston]

thanks I now have the latest Linux version

[phathash]

"internet" and "namecoin" don't show up in a name_scan. Why so?

[khal]

"internet" and "namecoin" don't show up in a name_scan. Why so?

name_scan limits to 500 results by default. Use :

Code:

name_scan "" 10000

[caston]

Hi I went to register rejuvepedia.bit.

So far I have reserved it with ./namecoind name_new d/rejuvepedia.bit

Now the next part confuses me a bit *no pun intended*

./namecoind name_firstupdate d/<name> <rand> <longhex> '<json-value>'

What do I enter for json-value?

At the moment I'm using the domain name rejuvepedia.org and if possible I would like rejuvepedia.bit to point to the same page.

best regards,

Chris

[khal]

Hi I went to register rejuvepedia.bit.

So far I have reserved it with ./namecoind name_new d/rejuvepedia.bit

Now the next part confuses me a bit *no pun intended*

./namecoind name_firstupdate d/<name> <rand> <longhex> '<json-value>'

What do I enter for json-value?

At the moment I'm using the domain name rejuvepedia.org and if possible I would like rejuvepedia.bit to point to the same page.

best regards,

Chris

rand = short hex number returned by the name_new command. longhex is the long hex returned.

For json-value, you can follow this :
http://dot-bit.org/HowToRegisterAndConfigureBitDomains#How_to_configure_your_domain

Short and simple example (simply put the ip of your server instead) :
'{"map": {"": "10.0.0.1", "www": "10.0.0.1"}}'

Then, you must add rejuvepedia.bit on the configuration of your webserver (in apache if you have access directly, or on the web interface where you add your domains)

[caston]

Then, you must add rejuvepedia.bit on the configuration of your webserver (in apache if you have access directly, or on the web interface where you add your domains)

Hi khal,

Is this likely to work on nearly free speech (http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net)

thank you

[caston]

I just thought of another question. Where do your registration fees go?