I tried to contact vince by PM and on IRC without success (PM : I didn't receive a response, IRC : we don't leave in near timezones i guess), but gsan had some contacts with him.
What i can say is this project needs visibility, organisation, documentation, tools and a central web site to find/manage all this, and this can't all be done by 1 person (consequence is a wiki + a forum).
* Vince has forked the bitcoin client and
launched namecoin.
* I've started by creating a
DNS bridge for .bit domains and then the
dot-bit project. I did not chose the name '
namecoin project' because there was no namecoin.tld available (i discovered later that someone else
had reserved some of them and i proposed to switch to this domain name).
* gsan has started the
second .bit DNS server and written the
draft for the domain specification* Some
miners are sellings namecoins* People have reserved around
500 domainsHere is a little summary of people involved in namecoin currently (sorry if i miss some).
So, i can't really say we are partners, and i would be happy if we can claim it both, but would it change something ?
If you want to make some donation to a person directly, because you think his personnal invest is significant for you, you can donate to him directly. If you think that donating to this project may help more, you can do it. Or you can do both :p
If you ever asked this to clarify things for
the BitDNS bounty, i hope you have enough informations to make your own decision (i cannot be judge and jury).
Vince, any comment about all that ?
