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

[worldinacoin]

It is a pity Namecoin did not kick off at all, or all of us can be using dot bit easily

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[deepceleron]

Namecoin is not dead. It just did what other scamcoins won't, and moved its conversation to its own forum.

https://forum.namecoin.info/

[phelix]

Namecoin is not dead. It just did what other scamcoins won't, and moved it's conversation to its own forum.

https://forum.namecoin.info/

Exactly.

Everybody thinking Namecoin is inactive please just take a look here: http://zmoazeni.github.io/gitspective/#/timeline/namecoin

[ShapeShift.io]

ShapeShift has added a buy/sell feature to the real time market data website CoinCap.io! You can now buy or sell Namecoin straight from the market data website. Learn more about this here: http://bit.ly/1UVFZ7m

[bitcoinrocks]

Is there a Namecoin slack channel?

[phelix]

Is there a Namecoin slack channel?

No but there is #namecoin-dev on freenode and http://gitter.im/namecoin/lounge  (bridged)

[Elwar]

With Onename switching to Bitcoin, will Namecoin be used at all for OpenBazaar?

[phelix]

With Onename switching to Bitcoin, will Namecoin be used at all for OpenBazaar?

Not that I know of. Onename and OpenBazaar both belong to the same VC company. Onename never answered my question about their business model so it smells like they will monetize lookups to their server (for "decentralized" data).

[btc_enigma]

I like this project . One of the few altcoins that make sense and are useful. Sad to see onename and other projects move away from namecoin.
Just curious , has the bitcoin core pruning feature -prune been ported to namecoin ? This allow to run nodes with minimal hard disk requirement

[phelix]

I like this project . One of the few altcoins that make sense and are useful. Sad to see onename and other projects move away from namecoin.

Here is our answer to that: http://blog.namecoin.org/post/130158040415/onenames-blockstore-is-much-less-secure-than
And here the ongoing discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3mwtw8/onenames_blockstore_is_much_less_secure_than/

Just curious , has the bitcoin core pruning feature -prune been ported to namecoin ? This allow to run nodes with minimal hard disk requirement

We are now stay in sync with Bitcoin. I don't know if anybody has yet tried pruning. With the Namecoin blockchain still being way smaller it is a lower priority and we rather want to go towards SPV.

[domob]

Just curious , has the bitcoin core pruning feature -prune been ported to namecoin ? This allow to run nodes with minimal hard disk requirement

We are now stay in sync with Bitcoin. I don't know if anybody has yet tried pruning. With the Namecoin blockchain still being way smaller it is a lower priority and we rather want to go towards SPV.

I agree with phelix that pruning is much less important for Namecoin than for Bitcoin.  It should, however, work "out of the box" the same way as it does for Bitcoin.  (But I've not tried it so far.)

[Guido]

is this site trustworthy?

http://namecoin-wallet.com/

is it run by namecoin people as in namecoin.info etc

not going to try until some of the namecoin hero members say ok
thanks

[domob]

is this site trustworthy?

http://namecoin-wallet.com/

is it run by namecoin people as in namecoin.info etc

not going to try until some of the namecoin hero members say ok
thanks

I didn't know it before.  It claims to not have access to the coins on the About page, meaning that the private keys would be handled locally in JavaScript.  On the other hand, it writes about "free" and "instant" payments, which sounds more like a hosted wallet (which fits to the fact that they want your email address on registration).

I would say you should take care and not put more money on it than on some random exchange, if any at all - but maybe someone else knows more details and can correct me here.

[cassini]

namecoin-wallet.com uses the same template including the same typos as ppc-wallet.com and dash-wallet.com.
Both have been identified as scam, see
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/375ywp/dashwallet_scam/
and
https://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2361.0

[LiveCoin]

Hello
We would like to invite Namecoin traders at our exchange livecoin.net
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

[vane91]

Please remember than there isn't any trusted namecoin online wallet.

For your security only use namecoin software from namecoin.info on a safe computer,
or signed beta wallets from trusted members at forum.namecoin.info.

Always check the hash, you can do it by uploading the software to virustotal.com

Build your own from source at github and reporting bugs is encouraged.

As for online exchanges, btc-e have the best liquidity and kraken is trusted.

R.I.P crypsy and cex.io trading.

[deepceleron]

PLEASE READ: Over the last few months ShapeShift has had various reports of various scamming accounts being created on our social media accounts, as well as copy cat websites. With this becoming more of an issues over the last month, we would like to make a few notes about how to avoid falling victim to these scammers. Please read our blog post about this so to protect your Namecoin transactions: xxxxxxxxxx

Another way to protect yourself is not to click on shortened links that may hide malicious sites.

[iCEBREAKER]

Please remember than there isn't any trusted namecoin online wallet.

For your security only use namecoin software from namecoin.info on a safe computer,
or signed beta wallets from trusted members at forum.namecoin.info.

Always check the hash, you can do it by uploading the software to virustotal.com

Build your own from source at github and reporting bugs is encouraged.

As for online exchanges, btc-e have the best liquidity and kraken is trusted.

R.I.P crypsy and cex.io trading.

Polo is good, if low volume.

[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

[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.