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

[BayAreaCoins]

Note further that I won't maintain any ongoing discussion in this forum any longer, so troll postings will be ignored!

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[biolizard89]

New article on Namecoin TLS dev: https://www.namecoin.org/2021/01/14/undocumented-windows-feature-external-name-constraints.html

This is the first part of a three-part series that goes more in-depth on the topics covered in my Grayhat Monero Village presentation.

Part 2: https://www.namecoin.org/2021/01/15/external-name-constraints-in-certinject.html

And Part 3: https://www.namecoin.org/2021/02/02/ctlpop-populating-windows-authroot-certificate-store.html

I might write a bonus Part 4 later, which would correspond to the bonus addendum from the presentation.

[hornetsnest]

wen real moon..wen distribution of manna? why no 1k NMC yet? lambo need a changin..widows and orphans need feeding

....meanwhile

Biohazard Biolizard is a stone groove....he is the most righteous dood.May the force of the Almighty God rest upon our righteous bro :-)

[shtako]

Its actually sad that Namecoin isn't listed on any tier 1 exchanges now. Almost 10 years old. Merged mined with bitcoin. Actively developed.

Namecoin will be around 10 years from now as well. Most other coins and projects won't. Lindy.

[biolizard89]

ncdns v0.1 Released (big new feature is system-wide TLS support on Windows): https://www.namecoin.org/2021/02/05/ncdns-v0.1-released.html

Also I ported the name_update GUI to latest Namecoin Core.  https://www.namecoin.org/2021/02/16/namecoin-core-name-update-gui.html

[BayAreaCoins]

Its actually sad that Namecoin isn't listed on any tier 1 exchanges now. Almost 10 years old. Merged mined with bitcoin. Actively developed.

Namecoin will be around 10 years from now as well. Most other coins and projects won't. Lindy.

I absolutely agree.

Although, it seems most of the "Cryptocurrency hype" for exchange volume chasers thus far is for new projects... I think that the "old coin hype" is coming soon though.

[Gash]

Its actually sad that Namecoin isn't listed on any tier 1 exchanges now. Almost 10 years old. Merged mined with bitcoin. Actively developed.

Namecoin will be around 10 years from now as well. Most other coins and projects won't. Lindy.

We need to start selling namecoin domains. I happen to own a pair of those. One is called "bebenda.zunda" while another one is a domain I wanna sell to synoptic weather bureau called "weather.lalala". I think if we get people to stir some noise around domain thing which is unique to namecoin, we will be rewarded by attention from crypto community. Disclaimer: Im not selling bebenda.zunda for less than 6 btc.

[BayAreaCoins]

Disclaimer: Im not selling bebenda.zunda for less than 6 btc.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the significance behind bebenda.zunda?

[benzi]

Have the devs thought of shooting a coin request to Bittrex to add Namecoin as they have Peercoin and litecoin. So why not add namecoin too could be an OG revival sort of thing that could stir up a bit of attention amongst the pile of new shiny crap

https://www.reddit.com/r/Namecoin/comments/b9xlpp/adding_namecoin_to_exchanges/
    
How can we add Namecoin to exchanges like Binance, Bittrex or Bitfinex?

"Personally I think my time is better spent on adding Namecoin to decentralized exchanges like Bisq. That said, I certainly don't have any objection to other people spending time lobbying centralized exchanges to list Namecoin."

I agree, but just a thought.

In all honesty I prefer Namecoin being quietly developed than to have high market attention for now, than have the developers being bombarded with speculators. You think the Ethereum developers are genuinely happy with development as the coins making new highs  


https://twitter.com/halvves/status/1363905211002220548/photo/1

and I guess when they say used to love Namecoin project. Translation because coin went down in price, but doesn't screenshot reasons why namecoin is not loved. At least they screenshot ethereums dns issues so I give em that.

[omarabid]

What about having a WNMC a wrapped Namecoin. Then people can exchange it in Uniswap and the likes.

[Elwar]

Are we able to connect to Namecoin domains via Brave somehow the way they have .onion capabilities built in?

[biolizard89]

Nightly Builds of ncdns and certinject are now available, for the #reckless among you who want to help us test new features or find new bugs.  https://www.namecoin.org/2021/03/04/nightly-builds-ncdns-certinject.html

[hornetsnest]

 

I have tested ALL the electrum versions to date .......very important work for when $NMC leaves the station on its last journey to $$instamoon

[biolizard89]

Namecoin Core 0.21.0.1 and ncdns v0.1.2 are released.  Among other things, the new Namecoin Core release features UX and security/privacy improvements to the RPC API; the new ncdns release fixes compatibility with ASLR/PIE on Windows 10 and paves the way for scalability improvements in Namecoin's TLS support.

https://www.namecoin.org/2021/03/07/namecoin-core-0.21.0.1-released.html

https://www.namecoin.org/2021/03/11/ncdns-v0.1.2-released.html

[ToxicDartFrog]

I've been kinda out of the loop with things ever since BTC-e/Wex went down but have tried to keep my eye on this coin. The idea behind it is solid and it's got a long history as well as still being an active project. Curious why it's not traded on more platforms? Only place that seems to have much volume right now is Coinex.

Would be nice to try and get some hype going. Not so much for the price action (though I would like that too lol) but more because with all the cancel culture crap and deplatforming etc the concept of decentralized DNS couldn't be more appealing.

[benzi]

Apparently Namecoin is dead  ...

https://twitter.com/SDLerner/status/1378341586527002626



Looks good to me

https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/namecoin/hashrate-chart

and so the Namecoin fud continues.....

[hornetsnest]

Apparently Namecoin is dead  ...

https://twitter.com/SDLerner/status/1378341586527002626



Looks good to me

https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/namecoin/hashrate-chart

and so the Namecoin fud continues.....

Fud is good..keeps the price down

[ToxicDartFrog]

Looks like someone trying to load up on Coinex. Hmmm...

I wonder if any of the bigger exchanges plan to pick up this coin again? Appears that most of the volume is strictly on Coinex and AltCoinTrader. Would love to see NMC get the attention that it deserves considering it is still an active project and all.

[Trade Runner]

Today Namecoin celebrates its 10th anniversary! On Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 00:26:41 (GMT/UTC), the Genesis block (block 0) was generated - and the very first fork of Bitcoin and thus the world's first alternative cryptocurrency was born! Namecoin, along with Bitcoin, was and is primarily intended as an alternative Domain Name System (DNS) for websites, with the goal of becoming independent of regular ICANN domains with Top Level Domains (TLD) such as .com, .net or .org.

As a key/value store, Namecoin allows any record on the blockchain such as identities and whatever data up to a size of 255 bytes for the key (255 ASCII characters such as numbers and letters, i.e. the name of the record like a domain name) and additional 520 bytes for the value (520 ASCII characters, e.g. the DNS configuration of a domain). So in total a key/value pair can contain 775 bytes or 775 ASCII characters (see record with TxID b5a1d922cb66299ced3856b8b112201f798b81dee31a4483e935f43866bb5554 as an example).

Today, Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 00:30:02 (GMT/UTC) we mined block 554960. So including the Genesis block, we got 554,961 confirmations of block 0. During these 10 years, a total of 5,584,201 TxIDs (transactions) were written to the blockchain, including the so-called Coinbase transactions for newly mined blocks that credit the miner's wallet with the reward. Subtracting the Coinbase transactions, 5,029,240 TxIDs were issued, so 5 million transactions for transferring coins and creating and updating names. On average, these are 10 TxIDs per block including the Coinbase transactions (or 9 TxIDs per block excluding the Coinbase transactions) and 152 blocks per day over the last 10 years.

[sun.king]

Big Deal.  SRSLY!