Miners should promote Dot-Bit

[Bitcoin++]

As you probably know, the ASICs you use to mine Bitcoin can be used for merged mining with Namecoin as well. Namecoins are primarily used to register .bit domains.

If this domain becomes more popular, NMC will raise in price, and so will your mining profit.

Let us all think of ways to promote Dot-Bit 

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[Glizlack]

+ 1000000  Its been pushed from time to time. I believe there are some chrome extensions to make .bit pages transperatnt to the novice user. I think that would help greatly if we could push enough to have it directly  (without any end user) in browser ready to go.

steve

[ranlo]

+ 1000000  Its been pushed from time to time. I believe there are some chrome extensions to make .bit pages transperatnt to the novice user. I think that would help greatly if we could push enough to have it directly  (without any end user) in browser ready to go.

steve

If this is the goal, I think trying to bring Mozilla and Google on-board is important (as these are two of the more popular browser creators and are both pro-open source).

[Taras]

Wow! Someone other than myself cares about .bit! I don't know what to say. Completely amazed.
I really hope it goes further, people on the trollboxes talk about how NMC is a "retardcoin" [sic.]

[ranlo]

Wow! Someone other than myself cares about .bit! I don't know what to say. Completely amazed.
I really hope it goes further, people on the trollboxes talk about how NMC is a "retardcoin" [sic.]

I followed it a little, but the problem is how it works. It's great in theory, but I view it as being like Tor (not "dark," but rather not something that everyone and their mother can utilize with ease). For this to work, everyone should be able to access .bit addresses without having to do anything special.

[Bitcoin++]

Is there any online proxy, sort of like Anonymouse.org, that enables a .bit page to be viewed in a regular browser?

If yes, instead of linking directly to say http://example.bit you'd link to something like http://someDotBitProxy.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://example.bit
A browser plugin (of which 0.0001% of us would download) could ignore the proxy and go directly to .bit.

[ranlo]

Is there any online proxy, sort of like Anonymouse.org, that enables a .bit page to be viewed in a regular browser?

If yes, instead of linking directly to say http://example.bit you'd link to something like http://someDotBitProxy.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://example.bit
A browser plugin (of which 0.0001% of us would download) could ignore the proxy and go directly to .bit.

I think people said that creating an addon wouldn't be possible (it was either FF or Chrome it wouldn't be doable in, or maybe neither?), so I don't think that's doable either.

If we could get the browser devs on board they could just add the functions into FF/Chrome.

[eozdem]

there is also http://dotp2p.io/  we should care about it too ...

[-ck]

The reality is miners only care about NMC because they see it as a way of increasing their income from mining. They don't really care less about what it was designed for so don't expect them to become dot bit advocates. 

[elliwilli]

It would be nice but as ckolivas said, it is probably doomed to failure, miners mine because most of them are only in it for the money and whilst they would eventually profit from it there is little short-term reward for doing so.