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

[cyberterrorist]

Daniel Kraft received a 5,000 Ethereum offer for d/bitcoin, not $750,000 as you claim.

It's ironic that you, who has been repeatedly called a troll and a noob by Jeremy Rand and Daniel Kraft, are now defending Daniel.

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.

There may be some truth to what Daniel Kraft and BayAreaCoins claim about you, because your fake Namecoin channel on Telegram https://t.me/namecoin grew from 840 "members" in September 2021 to 3,200 "members" in a year.

our main Telegram group @namecoin. I recently kicked several hundred accounts that were inactive for more than 6 months, so we have "only" around 840 active members at the moment (while the "community" around "J.R." aka biolizard89 stucks at 14 members on their main IRC channel on libera chat).

"Trade Runner" appears to be buying Telegram subscribers.  You should not be on BitcoinTalk after reading the feedback on your profile and your posts in this topic.  Your first public post about Namecoin was made in March of 2020.


You've arrived at Namecoin, just like COVID.  Perhaps you're ill or something.  Buying phoney followers for your phoney Telegram channel, where you only became admin in August of 2020.

As BayAreaCoins stated, "Trade Runner" you are a troll who should be banned from BitcoinTalk.

[domob]

As far as I know, the offer for d/bitcoin was 250 ETH, and it was declined.  Do you have any proofs for your claims to the contrary?  If not, then those should be discarded as purely FUD.

Regarding the Handshake money:  It was claimed for the Namecoin team (and I believe the Handshake guys actually meant it to be distributed to past contributors, not to the project for the future).  I personally declined to receive any of that money.  Namecoin got also some reserved names on Handshake (bit for sure, and perhaps namecoin as well, I don't remember the details), which I claimed using namecoin.org DNS.

As TradeRunner already stated, I see myself mostly as code maintainer for Namecoin (and also that at the moment mainly because Namecoin is the codebase on which the Xaya project is based).  I do not want to get involved in politics, and also do not want to voice or support any strong opinion about any non-technical issue.

[cyberterrorist]

Don't lie, Daniel Kraft.  You claimed you were only willing to talk technical, then came here to talk yourself out of stealing millions of dollars, but you did not answer any technical issues I raised.  For instance, hard coding d/ dd/ id/ and idd/ into Namecoin Core and removing the "Name" wording from Namecoin to use it as a DomainCoin, IdentityCoin because you based Xaya on the Namecoin codebase.

Since you claimed bit/ on the handshake, you should transfer me all domain names like namecoin.org and go fuck yourself along with Jeremy Rand on the handshake blockchain where you can register xaya.bit and build it there instead of degrading Namecoin.

I can merge auxpow from upstream Bitcoin and keep it safe, there is no need for you in Namecoin, better register domob.bit, xaya.bit, and wikileaks.bit on handshake and never look back, now that you own bit/ on handshake, why are you wasting our time here?

Daniel Kraft, you're a domain squatter who has been sitting on domains for years and trying to sell them for thousands (sometimes millions) of dollars.  You also offered the d/0 key/value pair for $5,000 personally to me.  You're nothing but a filthy criminal.

Let the Namecoin project go and enjoy your new handshake.  You can now start squatting .bit domains on handshake right away because you own bit/.  Handshake also includes auctions by default, allowing you to make a quick buck.

I will manage namecoin.org and the github repository.  You can retain your access to the repository for 1 year, but not the domain name namecoin.org.

Don't even try to argue with me, Daniel; you know I'm correct.

Bitmessage: BM-2cWShToKXN8oZnSQiTap7r6yQ9R3BXv5Q3

[domob]

I asked for proofs about your claims (that there was an offer for d/bitcoin of 5000 ETH, or that the owner was actively trying to sell).  You didn't provide any, and instead continue to just spread claims and FUD.  No use discussing any further.

[cyberterrorist]

Once again, you did not respond to anything technical.  You can either respond appropriately or close your mouth and go to the handshake blockchain for your xaya.bit, as I mentioned earlier.

Daniel Kraft, what FUD are you referring to?  Show me anything I said that isn't true.  You're absolutely hilarious.

[BayAreaCoins]

As BayAreaCoins stated, "Trade Runner" you are a troll who should be banned from BitcoinTalk.

I've never said anyone should be banned from Bitcointalk.

TradeRunner had a little "ban BAC" campaign going for a while, but that was fruitless and backfired something fierce.


I suspect Cyberterrorist and TradeRunner are the same users.  I appreciate the kinder approach to me this round because I'm way crankier than Domob or Jeremy .

So thank you!

Needless to say, taking money doesn't make someone a bad person.  If you can sell it, sell it... if it feels right.  *shrug*

Also, I don't do anything for Namecoin, except, provide a platform that allows people to buy & sell NMC with BTC if they wish.


If you don't like the way something is going, then make it yourself.  The best project will continue forward.  There is no need to try to strong-arm a .org from someone.  That's not a great look.

Do your own thing, do a good job, earn trust, use donations well, and you will replace "them" naturally.

[cyberterrorist]

I'm sure you said something along those lines, and if I look closely, I can find where you asked others to report him.


No.  We are not the same individual.  Fortunately.


Yes, I agree with you on the domain issue.

Also, I don't do anything for Namecoin, except, provide a platform that allows people to buy & sell NMC with BTC if they wish.

That is entirely correct; I adore your exchange; it is by far the best, if not the only, exchange for Namecoin.

[cyberterrorist]

I demand that the Namecoin project post a statement on namecoin.org stating that Uwe Martens is not affiliated with the Namecoin project in any way.

He continues to mislead people into believing that namecoin.org is nothing more than Jeremy Rand's "personal blog" and that namecoi[Suspicious link removed]o (namecoin(dot)pro) is the only legitimate website.

He dupes people by pretending to have 3200 members in his fake "Namecoin community" on Telegram.  He obviously buys followers.

I request that Jeremy Rand send an email from jeremy@namecoin.org to abuse@telegram.org requesting that his fake channel, which he has been using for two years to attack anything and everyone connected to Namecoin or expose his scam, be deleted.

[cyberterrorist]

You are a con artist scumbag, and your scam is now doomed; I guarantee that your phoney Telegram "community" with 3200 members will be deleted.

Everything you've linked to so far has been written by someone else.  You're a mentally ill individual.

[cyberterrorist]

You should stop spamming this topic; you've been doing it for the past two years.

You're unwelcome in the Namecoin community, and you'll have to live with it for the rest of your life.

[cyberterrorist]

You're unwelcome in the Namecoin community, and you'll have to live with it for the rest of your life.

Which community? The 14 dead accounts in J.R.'s IRC channels? Or the 12 members, which are currently online in his Subreddit? Oh no, I got it, you are the community! Please more of this projections!

We're not dead, just unresponsive to con artist trolls like you.  We are a real community, unlike your phoney Telegram channel with 3200 "Namecoin users."

I've been listening to your nonsense for two years and have had enough.  Others have tried to explain things to you nicely, but I'm not going to be one of them.

[cyberterrorist]

Others can read, so instead respond to the questions about yourself.  None of those you quoted are aimed at you. 

Meanwhile, those directed at you and your fictitious community, as well as scams and Namecoin impersonation, go unanswered.

[BayAreaCoins]

That is entirely correct; I adore your exchange; it is by far the best, if not the only, exchange for Namecoin.

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words.  

We've been slaving away for almost free since 2018/2019!  I'm pretty proud of her.

Day by day in every way, we are getting better and better.

[cyberterrorist]

More proof that Danial Kraft is a charlatan.

According to Daniel Kraft's official website, https://domob.eu, he claims to be the creator of the id/ Namespace in Namecoin.

Use of the id/ Namespace example: https://namebrow.se/name/id/domob/

Looking at the blockchain record for id/ (the Namespace) https://namebrow.se/name/id//, you can see that it has been owned by BM-2cXeN1HuY8h7nYAkPj1mny4Ki4wywPorwM since at least June 22, 2013, 6:31 p.m.


What is the significance of this?

This demonstrates that Daniel Kraft is currently squatting on approximately 11,000 names in the d/ Namespace that he is attempting to sell.
Not only is he attempting to sell the squatted names, but he is also attempting to extort between $3,000 and $5,000 for each name.

It should be noted that the d/ Namespace is still used today to obtain .bit domains.  That is, if you want a .bit domain, you must pay Daniel Kraft thousands of dollars.

He is also squatting in the id/ Namespace with around 280 names, such as id/a, id/b, id/c, id/schatz, id/schatzi, and even id/satoshi.

At this point, Namecoin's only option for survival is to abandon the use of the d/ Namespace, which is squatted by the criminal gang of phelix, Daniel Kraft, and Jeremy Rand, who are running around like headless chickens pretending to be "Namecoin Developers" when they are squatters who only maintain Namecoin to make a buck.

God I fucking hate domain squatters.  The scummy underbelly of the major TLDs and now in Namecoin as well.

You guys are suck fucksticks, I hope you die.  Well, if it's not you, it's some other cockgobbler doing it, so might was well make a buck, huh?

[gio3442]

I don't see why this has to be made into a personal dispute.
Namecoin has more serious problems to deal with rather than someone squatting domains.
Namecoin's brand value is literally being stole by a couple of for-profit corporations attempting to patent .bit domains and us as a community couldn't even get together to file a letter of protest for 50$ so the patent office is made aware of Namecoin's prior use of the technology.

Now this, this is an existential threat for bitcoin. People are going to look up the history of decentralized domains and it would of been erased by corporations if we don't act.
If you want to preserve Namecoin's protocol, go ahead and hard fork.

The biggest issue here, and what's enabling all these problems, is that nobody bothers anymore. The community left Namecoin to be forgotten and the few people bothering maintaining it (maybe rightly so) are taking many decisions without asking anyone, occasionally prioritizing personal gain. Make no mistakes though, it's not their fault for looking into personal gain. They're using the protocol to advance their personal interests but nowhere does it say that this isn't allowed. Instead of whining, WE should be taking action.

Keep in mind that personal benefit is vital to advancing anything. Even not for profit FOSS development orgs have people working in salaried positions and money to go around from grants. But do keep in mind, that as things stand, no matter how many domains someone squats, without demand, the protocol is bound to fail. So if anyone was even squatting 100% of Namecoin domains, there's very little to gain, let alone for development incentives. Protocol sustainability wasn't very well thought out in Namecoin sadly.

Ask yourself this.
Do you have a developer by your side?
Do you have a good idea how to make the protocol more trustless and self-sustained while preventing squatting?
If yes, build it. Fork it.

I can tell you with certainty that if you can find someone to develop this and devise a plan, pools holding the majority hashrate for NMC would support the hard fork.
Namely antpool, f2pool, viabtc and kucoin pool and any miner with ties to China would 100% support this fork (same way they did with BCH, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin GOD, ETC... You get the idea. ). These are still a tightly knit community so if they stood to gain anything they would support the fork and the new NMC would 100% become the winning chain, effectively returning the squatters to null.

As of the community, between the 10 people that even remember what Namecoin is, I'm sure many would welcome such changes. But that doesn't even matter anyway because Namecoin as it stands is dead community-wise. If anyone bothered to revive it in the slightest, the new community of users would overpower any old one.

TL;DR:
The issue isn't the few people left deving for Namecoin, it's the lack of a community. If you care, build something better and a hardfork is almost 100% guaranteed to receive support.

[cyberterrorist]

I don't see why this has to be made into a personal dispute.
Namecoin has more serious problems to deal with rather than someone squatting domains.
Namecoin's brand value is literally being stole by a couple of for-profit corporations attempting to patent .bit domains and us as a community couldn't even get together to file a letter of protest for 50$ so the patent office is made aware of Namecoin's prior use of the technology.

Now this, this is an existential threat for bitcoin. People are going to look up the history of decentralized domains and it would of been erased by corporations if we don't act.
If you want to preserve Namecoin's protocol, go ahead and hard fork.

The biggest issue here, and what's enabling all these problems, is that nobody bothers anymore. The community left Namecoin to be forgotten and the few people bothering maintaining it (maybe rightly so) are taking many decisions without asking anyone, occasionally prioritizing personal gain. Make no mistakes though, it's not their fault for looking into personal gain. They're using the protocol to advance their personal interests but nowhere does it say that this isn't allowed. Instead of whining, WE should be taking action.

Keep in mind that personal benefit is vital to advancing anything. Even not for profit FOSS development orgs have people working in salaried positions and money to go around from grants. But do keep in mind, that as things stand, no matter how many domains someone squats, without demand, the protocol is bound to fail. So if anyone was even squatting 100% of Namecoin domains, there's very little to gain, let alone for development incentives. Protocol sustainability wasn't very well thought out in Namecoin sadly.

Ask yourself this.
Do you have a developer by your side?
Do you have a good idea how to make the protocol more trustless and self-sustained while preventing squatting?
If yes, build it. Fork it.

I can tell you with certainty that if you can find someone to develop this and devise a plan, pools holding the majority hashrate for NMC would support the hard fork.
Namely antpool, f2pool, viabtc and kucoin pool and any miner with ties to China would 100% support this fork (same way they did with BCH, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin GOD, ETC... You get the idea. ). These are still a tightly knit community so if they stood to gain anything they would support the fork and the new NMC would 100% become the winning chain, effectively returning the squatters to null.

As of the community, between the 10 people that even remember what Namecoin is, I'm sure many would welcome such changes. But that doesn't even matter anyway because Namecoin as it stands is dead community-wise. If anyone bothered to revive it in the slightest, the new community of users would overpower any old one.

TL;DR:
The issue isn't the few people left deving for Namecoin, it's the lack of a community. If you care, build something better and a hardfork is almost 100% guaranteed to receive support.

Creating a hard fork is not required.  For many years, software updates were also completely unnecessary.  You can continue to use the previous versions without any problems.

Only a hard fork with extremely high registration and transaction fees and completely rejecting Namecoin transactions from current nodes can prevent squatting.

Squatters are only a problem in the d/ Namespace, but it is important to remember that Namecoin is not restricted to the use of the d/ Namespace.


Uwe Martens, who continues to spam his childish website on this topic, promoting the fictitious TLDs he just made up, is a prime example of how things can go wrong.  According to him, the spam website he linked to above is a "specification" for the entire Namecoin community, where he declared that XY TLDs belong to XYZ Namespaces.  Everything was "specified" by him, just as authoritarian leaders issue decrees.

Although Namecoin allows such authoritarian con artists to operate, their chances of success are massively diminished by the fact that anyone can register a Namespace and create their own TLD.


Example:
Someone registers the Namespace flower/ and assigns the .flo top-level domain (TLD) (same as the current .bit formula)
The next person comes along and says, "Fuck this, I'll make a better one," and registers the nature/ plant/ animal/ Namespaces, assigning them the .nature, .plant, and .animal TLDs, respectively.


The only problem that can occur when registering namespaces for your applications is that the Namespace already exists or that it already exists with the value you want to register.

For example, suppose you want to create a biology application and use the bio/ Namespace, but someone has already registered the bio value, which is bio/bio, in that namespace.
You're already doomed in this case unless you use the longer Namespace and register the bio in the biology/ Namespace, resulting in biology/bio.

The desired outcome of your application is to own the Namespaces bio/ and biology/, as well as to register the values bio and biology such as bio/bio, bio/biology, biology/biology, and biology/bio.  Then and only then will you be able to assign the .bio and .biology TLDs.

[nutildah]

But every BitcoinTalk member should know that even Satoshi Nakamoto contributed on this project

Nope, without convincing proof that satoshi is vinced, he did not.

He simply chimed in his thoughts in an ongoing discussion about BitDNS, which preceded and is entirely separate from Namecoin. This, along with the most vocal bagholders of re-registered names touting you as an "OG Namecoin dev", are two of the most embarrassing misconceptions in the entire Historical NFT space.

Its great if you want to build on Namecoin but please take your historical revisionism elsewhere.

[cyberterrorist]

But every BitcoinTalk member should know that even Satoshi Nakamoto contributed on this project

Nope, without convincing proof that satoshi is vinced, he did not.

He simply chimed in his thoughts in an ongoing discussion about BitDNS, which preceded and is entirely separate from Namecoin. This, along with the most vocal bagholders of re-registered names touting you as an "OG Namecoin dev", are two of the most embarrassing misconceptions in the entire Historical NFT space.

Its great if you want to build on Namecoin but please take your historical revisionism elsewhere.

 


I don't believe Uwe Martens' comments on BitcoinTalk meet the bare minimum for inclusion here.  These are completely incorrect nonsense, and he spams his childish Microsoft Word made websites almost every time he makes a comment; the most recent comment alone contained two links.
He not only has no knowledge of the subject, but all of his comments are written specifically to promote his websites, which have nothing to do with Namecoin.

Namecoin is a community-developed open source software.  Uwe Martens, on the other hand, is a con artist who pretends to be a developer by constantly harassing the Namecoin community and spamming his trash websites not only on BitcoinTalk but also on WikiPedia (o_links_are_spam_and_not_relevant]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Namecoin#The_added_namecoi[Suspicious link removed]o_links_are_spam_and_not_relevant).

My opinion is similar to BayAreaCoins', BitcoinEXpress', and biolizard89's, and it will not change in the near future.

This topic should not be about spamming and promoting fraudulent websites.

Edit:
I can't link to the relevant section of the Namecoin talk page on WikiPedia because BitcoinTalk automatically replaces all text that contains the namecoin pro domain with namecoi[Suspicious link removed].  I wish they would also remove all of his comments with a [Suspicious text removed].

By going directly to the Namecoin talk page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Namecoin, you can see Uwe Martens and his spam that has been removed by WikiPedia admins.

Uwe Martens' failed hostile takeover of the Namecoin project:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Namecoin&diff=1043531325&oldid=1043302032

[cyberterrorist]

It's clear that with every new development there are coming the envious, even if the latter can do nothing but spread FUD. While they have been banned from all other communities, BitcoinTalk is their last resort where they can keep trolling, that's nothing new at all.

Nope, without convincing proof that satoshi is vinced, he did not.

He simply chimed in his thoughts in an ongoing discussion about BitDNS, which preceded and is entirely separate from Namecoin.

You shouldn't assume I didn't see your FUD a few weeks ago, but everyone embarrasses themselves as best they can! All I can say in response is that you haven't contributed anything to the Namecoin project so far - other than sending merits here and spreading FUD. So on topic, Satoshi is not vinced. Before you keep spreading FUD, you should start reading at the initial post of this thread: Namecoin is a naming system based on bitcoin with a few modifications.  It is inspired by the bitdns discussion. Namecoin wasn't created out of thin air, and undoubtedly Satoshi's contributions were the most important, as cited especially with regard to the proposal of merged mining. Last but not least, just for the readers, it should be noted that Namecoin is a fork of Bitcoin, and the original additional code that made Namecoin from Bitcoin code were just an additional 400 lines of code to define the name operations. "Namecoin", by the way, was just one of the names for the project, and there were other synonyms for the same project in parallel, but I won't go into details here.

This, along with the most vocal bagholders of re-registered names touting you as an "OG Namecoin dev", are two of the most embarrassing misconceptions in the entire Historical NFT space

I don't care how others are referring to me, but we already had this funny discussion on Twitter/Discord/Telegram. Some contributors joined the Namecoin project in 2015 and you probably wouldn't complain if they were referred to as "OGs", but like I said, I don't care. I joined in July 2018, as you can see on the blockchain. From then until now I have registered many assets as a registrar on behalf of other community members, on May 19, 2019 I opened a huge to-do list on GitHub, and they are still working on the list.

The community left Namecoin to be forgotten and the few people bothering maintaining it (maybe rightly so) are taking many decisions without asking anyone, occasionally prioritizing personal gain. Make no mistakes though, it's not their fault for looking into personal gain. They're using the protocol to advance their personal interests

Comments like this have a good reason, and as a side note, unlike some other contributors, I haven't been begging for funds out of the pots of the European Commission, while I would squat silently on a huge Handshake airdrop worth about $ 2 million USD, dedicated to the development of Namecoin, laundered against Bitcoin in the meantime. As declared in the NFT auction notifications, the proceeds from the auctions will be taken to fund the development and maintenance of the new Namecoin DNS apps, which work on the mainstream browsers for desktop and mobile devices in HTTPS mode. Something what the Namecoin community haven't ever seen running until today.

What exactly are OGs?  I'm not sure.  "Namecoin OGs" are something I've never heard of.  If this is referring to squatters, they should market themselves as dick-handlers or DHs.

You can create your own binaries and distribute them under a name other than Namecoin.  Instead of trolling the Namecoin community, why not create your own "UweCoin"?  You call yourself a developer, but I have yet to see a single bug fix or improvement to Namecoin from you.

I can assure you that you will never become a Namecoin developer.  If you were a "developer," as you claim, you would have sent a pull request with your changes to GitHub in 2019, but you didn't and won't because you're nothing more than a useless annoying noob who is constantly arguing and spamming your disgusting website, which discredits the entire namecoin community.

To me, attacking nutildah, who merited your posts, seems completely stupid.  You should see a psychiatric professional as soon as possible.

[realdantreccia]

Buy signal - on.