Topic: [announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 11. (Read 596107 times)

If you are banning people who bring nothing to the table then you are going to have to ban yourself.

At least TradeRunner is making substantial improvements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIfzyYT1Oho

There are different classes of 'things'. Some are properly controlled and restricted, some not.

It doesn't really matter whether anybody can download a movie or music for free. If you can't download one movie or music then download another.

Things like food are on the other end of the spectrum from movies. It is fine to take measures to increase a stranger's access to food, if you feel charitable, but restricting their access to food is proper grounds for war.

Scientific information is like digital food. If you restrict a group's or person's access to scientific information you are impeding their future survival.

Your comparison to socialism is asinine. There are no scientists worldwide, zero, who need income from articles to survive. Much less any in Vietnam. If a scientist claims he will starve if people don't buy his or her articles, he or she is lying and should be working at some other job anyway.

I don't really care whether that person uses Namecoin, it seems like an appropriate use of Namecoin, but it isn't my business what somebody else does to further their idea.

Your defense of copyrights as applied to science articles paints you as a corporate hack. You should re examine your philosophy in that regard or return to developing when you are a little older and less prone to the influence of corporate propaganda.

You have been doing good work which I'm glad somebody is doing, but that's as silly a comment as I've seen recently.

She is supporting open access to subscription science articles/journals.

At present it is expensive for amateurs to get some material. A lot is available at sites like PubMed https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ and other specialty sites, but a lot of material is hidden from easy access by financial barriers.

This is an extension of colonial attempts to maintain power in the melting pot, and prevent tribal entities and smaller countries from getting on equal footing.

If you live in a remote part of Vietnam, and your kid asks you for a way to access a $30 article you could say "okay, lets go without food for three days'.

In the U.S. a poor person would tell his kid '$30??? are you crazy? That's almost three packs of cigarettes. Go cut grass for an afternoon and make the money yourself'.

A two tiered system is best, where people with plenty of money can simply log in to a site with no worries and get whatever articles they want for an amount of money that is trivial, and people in less moneyed places or situations can take a trivial risk to get equivalent access.

The alternative, if people want to force a single tier, is zero subscription services after things shake out.

That girl's objective is open access to science information, and anybody should support that.

There are a lot of things a developer could do to promote her project. Create a Namecoin clone/fork with a small premine and give it to her to create a network containing only science journals, she could use the premine to buy long term server space, and supporters could use her coin. She would have more real regular users on her network then most coins have, if it were a secure network. If her coin were completely interoperable with Namecoin browser extensions and a person could flip back and forth between 'networks' without regard to 'currencies' it would give a practical touch to the pathetic digital economy.

We need more people willing to sell Namecoin for any price and people willing to buy Namecoin for whatever price.

That's what makes a market!  Thankfully, Namecoin has several different arenas to choose from even now.

https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/Namecoin

It's just unimaginable to me that we live in a world that values NFT Punk MS Paint drawings more than Namecoin... it has to be short-lived.  I expect big things for Namecoin still.

Right well anyways.

Good to see there's still active development in this coin even though the trade volume is almost nil. Given what just happened with Counterparty (XCP) recently, anything's possible for one of the first, functional altcoins. Here's hoping it enjoys some sort of renaissance.

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.

Obviously something big going on behind the scenes with a lot of money.

This person makes an interesting point. Alternatives to centralized dns need to be simple, and maybe usernames would appeal to people.

https://aaronparecki.com/2020/09/24/21/

https://nameid.org/

Have any of the Namecoin camps, either the main group or Trade Runner, been in contact with this lady?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit

She seems to have dealt with hns

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/01/14/sci-hub-leaves-handshake-blockchain-after-2-days-citing-centralization-concerns/

Her project would be the best to help remove politics from the internet.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/8/22220738/twitter-sci-hub-suspended-indian-court-case

And she would help split the 'dns' argument into smart people vs stupid people so things could move along faster.

Are you any relation to the mighty Sunny King? .asking for a friend

After this DOGE explosion then folks would catch on to AUX pow.  Right?

NMC, UNO, ix, i0, xmy

is this really a healthy coin, because there are so many in this decade with the launch of coins that are not healthy and also of poor quality

Yep.  Specifically Andrew "rasengan" Lee.  (There seems to be some dispute over whether London Trust Media Holdings was involved in Andrew's takeover of Freenode; looks like Andrew may have sold some companies to an Israeli malware company prior to this takeover.)  The same Andrew "rasengan" Lee who was an active participant in scamming Alexandra Elbakyan earlier this year.  I hope he's not expecting his investment in Handshake (which donated an airdrop to us) to induce us to cover for him on this; not gonna happen.  (Note: this is not the same Andrew Lee who works for Purse.io and who was a Handshake developer; that Andrew Lee is actually a quite nice guy AFAICT.)

Meanwhile, we've released ncdns v0.2.  This release features layer-2 TLS, and major overhauls to the build system.  https://www.namecoin.org/2021/06/28/ncdns-v0.2-released.html

Also, our awesome friends at XMR.RU translated our 36C3 talks into Russian.  They also provided English transcripts.  https://www.namecoin.org/2020/01/11/36c3-summary.html

I'm getting 2013 silk road vibes.......

https://twitter.com/Namecoin/status/1407536412023525379

Allegedly or not if this starts a snowball effect in the near future, then better get those cheap Namecoins while you can because ohh baby

The many that complained how they wished they bought bitcoin at a dollar, Well here is your second chance..

https://giphy.com/gifs/TFYyfFrqxuExEM5r04

Another trustworthy exchange for Namecoin is https://freiexchange.com. I use it for years without issues. The only drawback is no disposable deposit adresses.

you guys should take your grudges everywhere else instead of staining an epic thread.

could everyone focus for a second on the topic at hand, namely, Namecoin

and discuss how the chinese are even copying the .bit domain extension when they launched their own token naming service... ---> https://twitter.com/RBCHI/status/1402230670915604486

shouldn't we, when they finish, just copy their features or something.?

NMC should have at least pretty interfaces for normal people to be able to use it...

Looks like newbies are catching on...

https://twitter.com/storycomic1/status/1399139479265284096

London Trust Media = Private Internet Access?

I remember when they sponsored these forums many moons ago.

NLnet Foundation and European Commission have awarded 50k EUR to Namecoin developers Yanmaani and Ahmed Bodiwala for Namecoin Core and Electrum-NMC development, as part of the Next Generation Internet Zero: Search and Discovery Fund.  Huge thanks to the awesome people at NLnet and European Commission!  https://www.namecoin.org/2021/04/30/funding-from-nlnet.html

Also, for those of you accessing Namecoin's IRC channels via Freenode, please be advised that Freenode is currently undergoing a hostile takeover by London Trust Media Holdings.  We recommend that you abandon the Freenode ship immediately and switch to Hackint.  https://www.namecoin.org/2021/05/19/freenode-hostile-takeover.html

The ironic thing is if namecoin was only a regular shitcoin instead of a utility coin it would probably be priced at about 1000 dollars with muppets knocking each other over to get in to "invest" while elon tweets shit about it being the next big thang. Crypto market is the scammiest most brain drained swamp on the face of this god forsaken earth and deserves to crash and burn without any mercy shown to it.

Soo Namecoin code in sync with bitcoin core

https://twitter.com/XAYA_tech/status/1389189769071104010

Hash rate - BTC Around 180 EH, NMC Around 120 EH

BTC $56,000 and Namecoin $2.20

Need I say more