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

[Tomatocage]

Shouldn't this be in Alternate Cryoptocurrencies?

[phelix]

Shouldn't this be in Alternate Cryoptocurrencies?

Today, yes. But this is a thread of historical value. Above people event planted the rumor vinced could be an alter ego of the great Satoshi himself. 

Also it's so messy in the Altcoins section these days. 

[lunarboy]

Shouldn't this be in Alternate Cryoptocurrencies?

Today, yes. But this is a thread of historical value. Above people event planted the rumor vinced could be an alter ego of the great Satoshi himself. 

Also it's so messy in the Altcoins section these days. 

Far too many Alt errr Egos 

[virtualmaster]

This is a preview:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/40390855/namecoin_wallet.html
Logo, domain, translations will come and may be other features also.

[marcus_of_augustus]

Shouldn't this be in Alternate Cryoptocurrencies?

No. Namecoin is special since it was designed as a complement for bitcoin (data storage, naming spaces, etc) not a competitor (merged-mining).

And besides it has been in this section since April 2011 and now you want to move it?


snailbrain:

Namecoin-qt - based on Namecoin 3.50 + Latest Bitcoin-qt

Awesome. I think this alone will be sufficient to revive interest in namecoins and its vision. Make sure it is well-tested, I can help with that ...

[snailbrain]

Shouldn't this be in Alternate Cryoptocurrencies?

nmc deserves it's own section <3

[phelix]

[...]
How's this for a plan? I need the following RPC calls added:
- importprivkey
- dumpprivkey
- importaddress (from codeshark's PR, I can dig the number if needed)
- listunspent
- createrawtransaction
- decoderawtransaction
- getrawtransaction
- sendrawtransaction
- signrawtransaction
- signmessage
- verifymessage
- listaddressgroupings (I can live without this one, but it is useful)

I also need all the tx to be available for querying, not just those for wallet addresses (I think that's already the way it is).

I have a new idea. These would be most important imho:
- importprivkey
- dumpprivkey
- signmessage
- verifymessage

[...]
i'm sure some more people are holding huge stacks of nmc,
they should step-up, join together, make a foundation or something to manage the bounties and pay someone
[...]

There is a little known Namecoin Marketing and Development Fund:
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=473&p=2694


I was not even aware there is a Namecoin subreddit now: http://www.reddit.com/r/namecoin

[nelisky]

[...]
How's this for a plan? I need the following RPC calls added:
- importprivkey
- dumpprivkey
- importaddress (from codeshark's PR, I can dig the number if needed)
- listunspent
- createrawtransaction
- decoderawtransaction
- getrawtransaction
- sendrawtransaction
- signrawtransaction
- signmessage
- verifymessage
- listaddressgroupings (I can live without this one, but it is useful)

I also need all the tx to be available for querying, not just those for wallet addresses (I think that's already the way it is).

I have a new idea. These would be most important imho:
- importprivkey
- dumpprivkey
- signmessage
- verifymessage

What? Where did you take that those would be the most important *for my needs*?

So, in a nutshell no, that will not be enough, not even close to it, for my needs. I will, however, be glad to tip anyone that pushes those 4 rpc calls into namecoin.

[phelix]

[...]
How's this for a plan? I need the following RPC calls added:
- importprivkey
- dumpprivkey
- importaddress (from codeshark's PR, I can dig the number if needed)
- listunspent
- createrawtransaction
- decoderawtransaction
- getrawtransaction
- sendrawtransaction
- signrawtransaction
- signmessage
- verifymessage
- listaddressgroupings (I can live without this one, but it is useful)

I also need all the tx to be available for querying, not just those for wallet addresses (I think that's already the way it is).

I have a new idea. These would be most important imho:
- importprivkey
- dumpprivkey
- signmessage
- verifymessage

What? Where did you take that those would be the most important *for my needs*?

So, in a nutshell no, that will not be enough, not even close to it, for my needs. I will, however, be glad to tip anyone that pushes those 4 rpc calls into namecoin.

hehe.

I am wondering what is the best way to go forward. Try and rebase on v0.8 or improving the current codebase? Rebasing would probably be a hell of a lot of work. Is there any good library we can build on by now?


edit: here goes the idea: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=210876 [NMC] Brainstorm: File Signing

[twobits]

I have a new idea. These would be most important imho:
- importprivkey
- dumpprivkey
- signmessage
- verifymessage

Oh, these will be first at least in what I am working on.  Really for no other reason then they came first, so they will be easy to work into the code as I work up the timeline.   At the moment though I just got done putting in some fixes for the coinbase.   Now I have no real way to test these.  So,  is anyone running testnet these days for namecoin?  Anyone up to helping to test? Or anyone have a networked connected box/vps I can use to run it on the testnet?

[phelix]

I have a new idea. These would be most important imho:
- importprivkey
- dumpprivkey
- signmessage
- verifymessage

Oh, these will be first at least in what I am working on.  Really for no other reason then they came first, so they will be easy to work into the code as I work up the timeline.   At the moment though I just got done putting in some fixes for the coinbase.   Now I have no real way to test these.  So,  is anyone running testnet these days for namecoin?  Anyone up to helping to test? Or anyone have a networked connected box/vps I can use to run it on the testnet?

Seems to be running, I got two connections. http://testnet.explorer.bit (http://testnet.explorer.dot-bit.org) also shows a block from yesterday.

[snailbrain]

please help test:

DO NOT USE AS MAIN WALLET

Namecoin-QT Alpha 0.1 - based on Namecoin 3.50 + Latest Bitcoin-qt Warning - you may lose NMC
Source + Win bin

Make sure you Backup your wallet
Make sure you Backup the Block Chain (re-downloading = nightmare)
Send Coins at your OWN Risk.. please test with small amounts

Known Bugs:

sendtoname (via console) crashes client on my win7-64.. the original namecoind 3.50 does the same for me (but seems to be working for others?)
Sending Coins - 2 days ago I sent coins which show as unconfirmed in transaction history, possibly due to corrupt blockchain (in-proper shutdown possibly was the cause), as has been working ever since.. but, please test thoroughly and carefully with "small amounts"
Encrypt Wallet is not working, do not use.

I cannot accept any responsibility for loss of coins - please test at your own risk.
but
Please help assist/debug.. NMC > Any Alt coins, and BTC imo

http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p0rm1buz48a2vu8,8j2ydrcnyrbuiwm/shared
note: readme/licence stuff missing atm, will sort asap

THIS IS ONLY FOR TESTING

[snailbrain]

You should provide a git repository.

we will eventually..

[snailbrain]

Why not now? It allows people to easily review the changes.

Dumping tarballs and binaries is not how you do development, especially open source.

working on it.. sorry, be patient <3

[marcus_of_augustus]

Why not now? It allows people to easily review the changes.

Dumping tarballs and binaries is not how you do development, especially open source.

heheh, Satoshi might argue with you ... in an ideal world everyone would know perfect git and write essays about philosophy behind minor modes... but let's not be too anal shall we? ... and at this point namecoin will take whatever dev work it can get.

[lunarboy]

This is awesome stuff guys can't wait to see it in action.  

Edit.

The first of these three reasons is where I hope namecoin to be developing into.

http://reason.com/archives/2013/05/20/the-top-3-things-i-learned-at-the-bitcoi

Edit 2.

I pledged 100nmc a few pages back for a OSX GUI and am more than happy to send that to a Bounty Address. There used to be one over on dot-bit but we've been under pretty heavy spam recently so not sure where to put it?
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=948

[snailbrain]

I pledged 100nmc a few pages back for a OSX GUI and am more than happy to send that to a Bounty Address. There used to be one over on dot-bit but we've been under pretty heavy spam recently so not sure where to put it?
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=948

should just need compiling for osx (someone can do it)

github
thanks for the help moa + arsenische

Github removed, re-doin

some issues compiling, hopefully will sort tomorrow... and community is helping with tidying it up..

it's time for NMC

[virtualmaster]

it's time for NMC

Yes.
The Golden Age of Namecoin is coming.

[virtualmaster]

Please vote for Namecoin, let's get OpenDNS to support .bit address:
http://ideabank.opendns.com/story.php?title=NameCoins_as_a_DNS_Lookup

[snailbrain]

sorry github will have to wait (I'm not the coder, it will be put on github when complete, he is a busy man)

Latest Namecoin-qt + Win Binaries
(should compile in linux/osx)

should be working bar Encrypt Wallet (fix soon)

Still Use with Caution

Namecoin-qt
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/b8qo76o7d8w6vda,l1lohaglao45023/shared