Topic: [announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 34. (Read 595757 times)

Remains to be seen if coins will decentralize the internet.

Right now Namecoin is touching its highs for market cap in the last couple years and the technicals look good.

Here are the only downsides I see.

a) It was associated in some way with somebody who was a hacker or something on btc e, not sure what that story is, but possibly might put some people off.

b) It is the only coin, as far as I know, that takes a deliberate dig at a state government, and is likely to be targeted by that government.
1) Aaron Swartz is potentially the most powerful recent symbol of government intimidating honest people. He was a brilliant tech type, an honest guy of the highest integrity. The U.S. government tried to dig up a fake crime so they could bully him into working for them. He declined. there is no doubt a lot of effort has been put into preventing his story from becoming a legend. The U.S. government, and many other governments, make an industry of criminalizing honest people, then forcing those honest people to criminalize their friends so more and more people are under the control of a bunch of petty gangster punk thugs who are not able to compete with integrity. Aaron swartz is potentially governments' worst nightmare and Namecoin is one of his last footprints, so far.
2) The United States has control of the internet. The U.S. government can remove any website in any country, or do it as a favor to an agency in any country, and typically that power is not used in a benevolent way. Namecoin could become a threat to that power and it is likely the U.S. government, and others, are active in trying to hobble Namecoin.

Namecoin, and crypto generally, are not threats to honest people. They can be used to progress a lot of things that need progressing.

Whether this coin will overcome the threats, who knows.

proving something is useful is different that using it.. lol

Pretty sure namecoin proved it was useful. 

ex-BTC-e. It's not a small exchange, especially for Namecoin - its trading volume on Wex amounts more that all other exchanges together (Poloniex, Cryptopia, Altcoin Trader) and the only one to offer a fiat pair for NMC.

Despite Namecoin had a good start and the community, mostly cryptoanarchists at that time, expected it to become a truly immutable DNS service - I sincerely doubt it will ever regain at least a fraction of that faith. The time Namecoin has had to prove valuable and usable - passed away.

If Namecoin had followed the path Darkcoin did - being aggressively ran by a large team of keen developers and marketers, we wouldn't have now lamented how poorly has Namecoin withstood the Bitcoin run and lagged behind the entire altcoins run.

Had not heard of wex before

https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/wex/

Number 19 exchange 73m usd volume today https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/

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Anyway Namecoin is a lot like early bitcoin, in that it is a chance for new people to buy and hold a very high quality coin probably.

a) Only two coins afaik that Satoshi Nakamoto was involved with, bitcoin and namecoin.

b) Namecoin 14.7m coins @ 0.00023 btc or usd2.2
    Bitcoin 16.7m coins at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx     usd10,000

It's hard to find a coin with a better early history. The second coin after bitcoin to exist, and the first coin with a real world use

That is what a true stable coin should be - costing the same amount of USD no matter the time. More legit and open-minded than Tether.
Sadly that's just irony.

Jokes aside, I lean to think that traders started massively take USD profits on WEX and pump lower-volume coins there (Peercoin, Namecoin and Novacoin), since these coins outpaced the general market for 2-3 days.

Namecoin developers keep close ties with the community, which will make the project better. Landing as soon as possible is the only way out for the development of the project, otherwise there will be no improvement.

Namekoin is the first branch from Bitcoin, it will cost tens of times more.

For a coin like name , with 1000 BTC you can grow the market cap to 100mln. It can grow very quickly like it happened with VTC

Bitcoin $1000, Namecoin $1.6
Bitcoin $ 10,000, Namecoin $1.7
 

Jeremy has sent a message that he cannot log into this site now that they put tor login protection on the forum.

He says that work can continue on the electrum wallet.

Bounty instructions for those interested will follow..

@Bitbobb pm sent

Great Chart Gallery of NameCoin on BitScreener: https://bitscreener.com/coins/namecoin/chart_gallery
https://i.imgur.com/EUTrC7c.png

We added Namecoin to the Cheddur app (https://www.cheddur.com/)! This will allow new users to learn about Namecoin and join the community. Cheddur allows you to link wallets, exchanges, and other services that support NMC so that new users can easily get started. You can also review the project and post your NMC addresses on your profile to receive tips / payments / donations in NMC from other users

Can others from the community please review the profile for quality and help us add supported services? The more active the Namecoin profile is (via user reviews and addresses), the higher it ranks in search results and the more likely newcomers are to discover the Namecoin project!

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/FzQsN

https://i.imgur.com/oEUs42O.jpg

Is Namecoin dead?  Why can't I trade it on Shapeshift anymore? 

This project in my opinion was a way to have an alternative to the dns layer that is used on the internet.

It was more than could be included into bitcoin so it became it's own coin (again in my opinion).  I think many were worried it may take from bitcoins market share (ahh the good old days) so it was de-emphasized as a crypto coin and more as a dns alternative utility.  That said it is still subject to the same market forces as any other scarce good.

Doe anyone here know the full potential of namecoin?  Good question IMO.  Time will tell..

 since 2016 this coin is more important than ever.  Why do I say this?   ~It took 8 years under Obama but finally the congressional oversight over the ARPA private contractor that maintains the dns layer is gone.  As soon as this protection was lifted we saw individual ip' addresses world wide get targeted for "soft censorship" of wikileak releases at that same time.  I think Assange trolled this event on purpose so there would be much data to study from.  Thank you Julian.

It is my belief that Satoshi knew that something so precious as bitcoin could not survive long in a world that had an internet that was censored so cleverly.  Eventually that beautiful unknown genius saw that the dns layer could be used to target each ip running bitcoin in a malicious way.

   These are just my opinions they could be wrong or correct or any blend of the two.. do your own research!



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I has read and i understand about this project mean, maybe if my advice you can give explain more about this project or this announcement, that is so simple explain, if you add many statement you can make someone understand all about your project

wow nice bunch of hate there you've got.  No I am not telling anyone to buy or not buy anything.  I am here for namecoin.  And I was making a point about freedom of money which is a very important concept.  I realize namecoin is not looked at as a crypto coin perhaps as like the others.  And your use of the trollspeak bcash tells me my answer why you have the hatred for the example I used in my comments.  Instead of attacking the substance of the comment you attack me personally.  That is lawyer trick #3.  Often used when facts are not present.  regards

just reporting the information I found.  that xbc is reserved internationally for bitcoin cash. regards

Says the bcash idiot who is also pushing something called trumpcoin. This is a namecoin forum. Go try and pump your shitcoins in the proper area.

Bitcoinplus already uses the ticker [XBC] so they may stick with BCC or BCH.