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

[ry474k3]

Hello namecoin community. I have tried all the latest electrum wallets for windows on windows 10 OS but cannot get any connection. It is set to auto connect. Any ideas why this is happening?
Thanks

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[UsernameNumber7]

Probably cuz your using Windows 10 OS?

No, really just download the Wallet and Blockchain, the Namecoin Blockchain is only 6 GB currently...........


Bitcoin Blockchain size is something like 300 GB or more IDK


Or you just wanting Electrum for the 13 Word Backup?

[ry474k3]

Probably cuz your using Windows 10 OS?

No, really just download the Wallet and Blockchain, the Namecoin Blockchain is only 6 GB currently...........


Bitcoin Blockchain size is something like 300 GB or more IDK


Or you just wanting Electrum for the 13 Word Backup?

The wallet I downloaded is for windows and tried the 3 types for windows OS standalone/portable/installer so not sure why windows 10 would be the issue.

I don't want whole blockchain but only lite wallet to keep the coins I bought off the exchange so using the passphrase/seed code is the one I need.The older 3.3.10 wallet I first sent the coins to worked initially before but no longer works now because it won't connect either so not sure what the problem is.

[benzi]

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/01/ukraine_icann_domains/

Prepare yourself Namecoin.....

[biolizard89]

Hello namecoin community. I have tried all the latest electrum wallets for windows on windows 10 OS but cannot get any connection. It is set to auto connect. Any ideas why this is happening?
Thanks

Which version?  4.0.0b0?  Some of the servers were reportedly down when you posted that, but at least two should be back up now.  Is the issue still happening?

In other news:

• We added a new protection against forgetting to renew on time.  This one was a massive team effort, encompassing a bunch of Namecoin developers, as well as our friends from Tor, Mozilla, Monero, Cyberia, and Cyphrs.
  
• I'm adding another abstraction layer to ncp11, which makes Namecoin's TLS interoperability easier to audit.
  
• The Netherlands government (via NLnet) is funding Aerth and me with an additional 30k EUR for TLS development.
  

[ry474k3]

Which version?  4.0.0b0?  Some of the servers were reportedly down when you posted that, but at least two should be back up now.  Is the issue still happening?

Yes it is this version. I had previous version 3.10 which used to work and then updated to this 4.0 version which worked at first but after some time when I went to use it then it would not connect so tried the older version again which also would not connect either.

I will try again this evening and will report back accordingly.

Thanks.


I still cannot get electrum to connect. I have manually went through each server also but nothing works and am stuck on block 518352. Bitcoin electrum works fine so not sure what the problem is.

Is there a list of working servers available?

Thanks

[ry474k3]

Guys I got it to work eventually on a friends computer who has windows OS so it must have been my machine giving some issue.Strange though because I used 2 different machines I had and neither worked but my friends did.We could only get the 3.10 version to connect though but 4.0 would not connect.I think it might be because older versions of windows or something.

[mishax1]

Namecoin is my stablecoin 

[d5000]

Namecoin is my stablecoin 

Indeed, one of the few coins which went positively through this bearish week Better than TUSD

Seems NMC is still in a bull market since early/mid 2021. It even reached a 4-year high in April. Could indicate that it's seriously undervalued ...

[BayAreaCoins]

Namecoin is my stablecoin 

Indeed, one of the few coins which went positively through this bearish week Better than TUSD

Seems NMC is still in a bull market since early/mid 2021. It even reached a 4-year high in April. Could indicate that it's seriously undervalued ...

We have had a few namecoin trades this week on FreeBitcoins.

Still looking for more liquidity:  https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/Namecoin

[lin_lin]

Indeed, one of the few coins which went positively through this bearish week Better than TUSD

Seems NMC is still in a bull market since early/mid 2021. It even reached a 4-year high in April. Could indicate that it's seriously undervalued ...

  - There was pump to 9000 sat in early 2021 . Now cost of NMC is 7000 sat<9000sat.  But without this pump  you are right.  NMC cost growth from 1500 to 7000 sat.

[biolizard89]

We've just released ncdns v0.3.  This release adds Tor Browser configuration to the Windows installer, along with the usual round of assorted bugfixes and code quality improvements.  Huge thank you to NLnet, the Netherlands government, and Cyphrs for funding this release, and huge thanks to the various code contributors, including Hugo, Redfish, Lola, Yanmaani, and Nicolas.  https://www.namecoin.org/2022/05/27/ncdns-v0.3-released.html

In less exciting (but still good) news, I fixed DNS over TCP support in the Golang DNS seeder, which should improve reliability of the DNS seeds for Namecoin Core.  https://www.namecoin.org/2022/05/22/go-dns-seeder-tcp.html

[LeMrDepression]

Hi,

NMC is a new project to me and I have downloaded the Namecoin Core Wallet on my Mac and the client say: "Connecting to peers" since 2 days (It still at 0%).

Can you help me please?

Thanks

- Mr. Dépression

[nutildah]

There's been a lot of debate recently on Twitter among self-professed "NFT Historians" about whether or not "d/bitcoin" is the world's "first NFT", and whether Namecoin names or domains can be classified as "NFTs".

Its become kind of a big deal as people are now paying thousands of dollars for re-registered Namecoin assets; most notable of which are Punycodes, Twitter Eggs and early Namecoin identities.

Kind of interesting to watch it unfold.

While I'm coming around to accept the idea that, OK - even if domains and names expire they can still be considered "NFTs" - one thing that bugs me is that a lot of the pro-"Namecoin assets are NFTs" crowd references this Uwe Martens guy as an "OG Namecoin dev"...



He went by the name Trade Runner on this forum.

Today I entered the CoinMarketCap Group with 9750 members at the moment. I linked a new Namecoin channel, mentioning Namecoin as a currency and DNS blockchain service. As nonprofit channel and project surely no spam! At first the Combot deleted my posting automatically due to restrictions of new users, where posted links within 24 hours get blocked, even if these links are just internal to other groups.

I repeated the posting without links, noticing, that I opened right now this channel with group, which could be found just searching for "Namecoin". Then the moderator with the troll name "Crypto professor 👨🏻‍💻 CMC listings are free 🆓 I will never Dm you for funds." deleted this second posting manually. The public conversation followed:

Uwe Martens (26.02.2020 11:15:08 CET)
Got deleted manually evidently. I'll leave this group again. Bye!

Crypto professor 👨🏻‍💻 CMC listings are free 🆓 I will never Dm you for funds. (26.02.2020 11:15:28 CET)
Great
We don’t need shillers

Uwe Martens (26.02.2020 11:17:32 CET)
Well, I'm just an admin and web developer within the blockchain sector, but I see that such relevant infos are unwanted here! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hopefully this conversation had at least a little entertainment factor for the community! The new Namecoin project itself I'll present here shortly in another thread.

Just wondering if domob or biolizard89 could chime in on whether they know if this guy has ever actually contributed anything to Namecoin since this was posted:

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.

Saw a lot of accusations from this guy on the forum, reddit, telegram, and now twitter, but have yet to find any actual code.

[biolizard89]

Namecoin Core 22.0 is released; the Manage Names tab is back!  https://www.namecoin.org/2022/08/02/namecoin-core-22.0-released.html

There's been a lot of debate recently on Twitter among self-professed "NFT Historians" about whether or not "d/bitcoin" is the world's "first NFT", and whether Namecoin names or domains can be classified as "NFTs".

Its become kind of a big deal as people are now paying thousands of dollars for re-registered Namecoin assets; most notable of which are Punycodes, Twitter Eggs and early Namecoin identities.

I would draw a distinction between "NFT's" and the "NFT community".  I think it's pretty clear that Namecoin names meet the literal definition of NFT's.  Long before the term "NFT" entered the lexicon, I would explain the difference between Bitcoin and Namecoin to newcomers by saying that the "coins" in Bitcoin are fungible (notwithstanding the criticisms the Monero community would justifiably make) while in Namecoin they are not.  The problem is that the community that has latched onto the term "NFT" is largely made up of scammers, get-rich-quick speculators, and other people that I don't want hanging around Namecoin's spaces.  In particular, we're seeing what are basically blockchain spam attacks from that community, where they've artificially inflated the resale value of historical names in the d/ namespace such that it is now profitable to mass-squat on them with zero intention of ever using these names for real websites.  I've been told by multiple good-Samaritan squatters that they have been repeatedly approached by people from the NFT community who are asking to buy high-value names for "collector" purposes; all of those good-Samaritan squatters told the NFT "collectors" to get fucked.  This behavior from the NFT community is harmful and AFAIK none of the Namecoin community is happy about it.

(What's the betting on whether any of these NFT collectors who are buying up Punycode domains have any idea that there's an open ticket on Namecoin's GitHub for blacklisting Punycode domains on the application layer due to security concerns?)

Kind of interesting to watch it unfold.

While I'm coming around to accept the idea that, OK - even if domains and names expire they can still be considered "NFTs" - one thing that bugs me is that a lot of the pro-"Namecoin assets are NFTs" crowd references this Uwe Martens guy as an "OG Namecoin dev"...



He went by the name Trade Runner on this forum.

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Just wondering if domob or biolizard89 could chime in on whether they know if this guy has ever actually contributed anything to Namecoin since this was posted:

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.

Saw a lot of accusations from this guy on the forum, reddit, telegram, and now twitter, but have yet to find any actual code.

Daniel's statement remains accurate as far as I know, unless "contributions" includes wasting developers' time on things that don't involve code.  By the way, that "Devoted One" user whom you screenshotted DM'ed me on Twitter saying he wanted to fund Namecoin development, a bit of discussion happened, and then he ghosted as soon as I said he would need to pay the funds into escrow up-front.  I can't *prove* that he was trying to scam the Namecoin developers into adding features he wanted without paying us, but he's not really doing a good job of making me think otherwise.

[nutildah]

Thanks for the response. It is enlightening to get some insight on these issues from an actual developer.

I had trouble wrapping my head around the idea that "tokens that can expire" at first, and there remains debate as to whether re-registered assets are the same entity as the pre-expired one (with compelling arguments on both sides). But your assessment gives me the final push of conviction I needed to accept them as NFTs.

It is unfortunately true that there is a shystery element that is attached to much of NFT salesmanship. Funny how nobody re-registering or buying these early domains has plans to make websites for them. You probably heard the story of the owner of d/bitcoin refusing a multi-million dollar offer for it.

On the upside, the whole "Historical NFT" movement has brought a lot more attention to Namecoin.

In any case, thanks for your continued dedication to keeping this project moving, and to domob as well. Realized earlier today I've been commenting in this thread since 2014. Looking forward to trying out the new version of Core.

[werghb4562]

Happy Halving Day

[BayAreaCoins]

We are about sold out of Namecoin due to steady buys.  Please feel free to list some for sale, I sold some for 10% over "market" price today.

https://altquick.com/market/Namecoin

[realdantreccia]

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't want to get involved in any politics and just want to develop tech.  But let me clarify two things:  First, I've not been involved in any edits of the Namecoin wikipedia page in at least the last year or two; I am contributing to Wikipedia only under my typical username "domob".  Second, I have personally not received any of the Handshake funds and won't in the forseeable future either.

Yeah well you certainly deserve your share of HNS or the $10.2 Million they promised to FOSS - especially since its not very revolutionary. Just a better auction platform and who cares if they're able to be used in root zone with ICANN. I prefer bit-dns myself. If i was to use a phonebook to call somewhere I didn't want my calls traced to so people could spy on all my personal data and doings - I would liken that to how I would use bit-dns in the future web/metaverse. To route myself somewhere that others can't come and steal information and content from me. A place I own and I built the roads to get to. Namecoin, Devcoin, Bitcoin - began the first ever pool (merge mining too) at pool.devcoin,org on Jan 1, 2012. Now Namecoin moved from Huntercoin to Chimaera (now XAYA) and the metaverse/web3 gaming and socialized markets. Well Devcoin still merge mines with Namecoin and Bitcoin too - and the Galactic Milieu is like the Sandbox but beat it by quite some years in when it began developing its metaverse, rulesets, etc and when the founder of Devcoin - markm - also decided to make a whole treasuries system with blockchain coins and eventually they will all meet in 3D immersive UI - sort of like Huntercoin did, and Xaya does better imo (Unity - GSPs - XayaX - Polygon - MetaMask login and cross-grid (like that Second Life VR term? ) commerce and registry of universal accounts with universal balance sheets across all game channels. Vertically in-game and horizontally across infinite games. Blockchain and network agnostic. That's where we are headed. Can't wait til you all actually discuss Galactic Milieu with me - I know many a time MarkM hung out in Huntercoin/Chronokings topics to explain and even pioneer ideas that later Daniel quoted he was thinking of for a diff implementation... a Namecoin-based OpenID alternative/compatible "NameID" - the rest is history. I am excited to see when you are all done RPG-ing the heck outta me tho I do enjoy figuring things out based on your commitments to keep the public informed! FOSS > The Truth Being Told to You. It's more rewarding and invesing in the project to learn oneself.

[cornhodlr]

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't want to get involved in any politics and just want to develop tech.  But let me clarify two things:  First, I've not been involved in any edits of the Namecoin wikipedia page in at least the last year or two; I am contributing to Wikipedia only under my typical username "domob".  Second, I have personally not received any of the Handshake funds and won't in the forseeable future either.

Yeah well you certainly deserve your share of HNS or the $10.2 Million they promised to FOSS - especially since its not very revolutionary. Just a better auction platform and who cares if they're able to be used in root zone with ICANN. I prefer bit-dns myself. If i was to use a phonebook to call somewhere I didn't want my calls traced to so people could spy on all my personal data and doings - I would liken that to how I would use bit-dns in the future web/metaverse. To route myself somewhere that others can't come and steal information and content from me. A place I own and I built the roads to get to. Namecoin, Devcoin, Bitcoin - began the first ever pool (merge mining too) at pool.devcoin,org on Jan 1, 2012. Now Namecoin moved from Huntercoin to Chimaera (now XAYA) and the metaverse/web3 gaming and socialized markets. Well Devcoin still merge mines with Namecoin and Bitcoin too - and the Galactic Milieu is like the Sandbox but beat it by quite some years in when it began developing its metaverse, rulesets, etc and when the founder of Devcoin - markm - also decided to make a whole treasuries system with blockchain coins and eventually they will all meet in 3D immersive UI - sort of like Huntercoin did, and Xaya does better imo (Unity - GSPs - XayaX - Polygon - MetaMask login and cross-grid (like that Second Life VR term? ) commerce and registry of universal accounts with universal balance sheets across all game channels. Vertically in-game and horizontally across infinite games. Blockchain and network agnostic. That's where we are headed. Can't wait til you all actually discuss Galactic Milieu with me - I know many a time MarkM hung out in Huntercoin/Chronokings topics to explain and even pioneer ideas that later Daniel quoted he was thinking of for a diff implementation... a Namecoin-based OpenID alternative/compatible "NameID" - the rest is history. I am excited to see when you are all done RPG-ing the heck outta me tho I do enjoy figuring things out based on your commitments to keep the public informed! FOSS > The Truth Being Told to You. It's more rewarding and invesing in the project to learn oneself.

I vote Dan should join the namecoin team.