Topic: [announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 4. (Read 594420 times)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.


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.


"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.

Jeremy Rand is biolizard89, I see.  Given that Jeremy Rand's most recent post indicated that he is a squatter, this is a big concern.


At this point, I demand that the GitHub repository and the namecoin.org website be completely shut down because Jeremy Rand and Daniel Kraft are clearly squatters trying to sell squatted domains, and the recent hard coding of the d/ dd/ id/ and idd/ Namespaces into Namecoin Core is motivated solely by financial interests.


Daniel Kraft attempted to sell d/bitcoin for nearly ten million dollars in April 2022, proving that Jeremy Rand is openly lying about the "good-Samaritan squatters".  Daniel Kraft also denied ownership of d/bitcoin on multiple occasions, which was proven false by examining the outputs and inputs of the following two transactions:

The d/bitcoin update on April 16, 2022 (tx), where the value "verify 2022-04-16 9:05:00 CET" is added, is used the output of the previous transaction as input, which was an update to d/xaya (tx).  Daniel Kraft founded Xaya.


This isn't the first time Daniel Kraft and Jeremy Rand have been caught lying publicly, including on BitcoinTalk, as seen above in the case of Jeremy Rand, and as seen below in the case of Daniel Kraft:


Daniel Kraft did, in fact, claim millions of dollars from handshake.org: https://www.reddit.com/r/handshake/comments/fnzwai/help_with_name_claim/, which he later successfully withdrawn.


Given the massive fraud committed by Jeremy Rand and Daniel Kraft, including money laundering, such as defrauding the NLNet Foundation, and the constant public lying, including here on BitcoinTalk as demonstrated above, threatening Namecoin users who use the Namecoin logo, or those who fork the Namecoin software, is more than enough to demand that they remove themselves from the GitHub repository and hand over all Namecoin assets, including social media and domains, to people who are not in any way associated with them.

This is the only way to keep Namecoin alive!

I don't think you understand what you're saying; the Namespaces d/ dd/ id/ and idd/ are very clearly hard coded into Namecoin Core, and a normal user will undoubtedly be scarred by a warning that their registration is "non-standard."

In pull request 482 Jeremy Rand and Daniel Kraft introduced so-called "applications."

Jeremy Rand stated:

I find it completely outrageous that after 11 years some clowns added restrictions regarding the Namespaces and has removed the "Name" wording when registering key/value pairs!  What exactly is this now?  IdentityCoin, DomainCoin?  It is certainly not Namecoin!

Regarding the domains:

• dot-bit.org, January 2014
• namecoin.info, January 2014
• namecoin.org, April 2014

Daniel Kraft has owned these domains since the dates listed above.  They were previously owned by Khalahan, who hosted namecoin.info, dot-bit.org, and porn domains like wawa-porn.biz on his own web-sweet-web.net.  Khalahan is a Frenchman who used to own the bitcoin-contact.org domain.

I'd like to clarify something for everyone who is interested in or using Namecoin.

Namecoin has nothing to do with the .bit TLD or the d/ Namespace, and it was not created by Jeremy Rand or Daniel Kraft, whom are more like maintainers than developers.

Namecoin allows you to create nearly an infinite number of Namespaces.  The number of Namespaces or key/value pairs you can create is only limited by the number of available namecoins, which, like Bitcoin, is capped at 21 million.

I've done a lot of research on Namecoin over the last 8+ years, and I know for a fact that namecoin.org is not an official representation of Namecoin.

The Namecoin genesis block was mined days before the first "domain" using the .bit TLD was registered.  I had the privilege of speaking with the miner who mined all of the early "domains" in the d/ Namespace.  He told me the entire story about how vinced contacted him for assistance.

The first "domains" are mined as a proof-of-concept, followed by some "reservations" for the DOT-BIT Project, which used the dot-bit.org domain as their main website.  The DOT-BIT Project, which proposed the .bit TLD, is not Namecoin.  It is a project that only makes use of Namecoin.

Early Namecoin adopters also established a registry at register.dot-bit.org, where they sold .bit "domains" for one or two Bitcoin.

Some attempted to auction off .bit "domains" on BitcoinTalk, which was not well received by the community:


Squatting has always been a major issue, and Namecoin is no exception.

I recognize Jeremy Rand and Daniel Kraft's efforts to maintain Namecoin operational, but I am strongly opposed to namecoin.org and the rest of Namecoin's public social media profiles being completely controlled by one single persona, which I interpret as squatting and a serious attempt to hijack the entire Namecoin project.

Namecoin's price has dropped from $10-$13 since Jeremy Rand took control of those resources and domain names, and it has been unable to recover for many years.  I've seen Jeremy Rand repeatedly attack people who fork Namecoin, claiming that the forks are "hostile" and contain "malware," despite the fact that he forked Namecoin himself.

Today, Namecoin "development" (if one can call it that) is simply merging from upstream Bitcoin, as it has been for the last 11 years.

I recently discovered that between two upstream auxpow merges, Jeremy Rand and Daniel Kraft hard coded Namespaces into Namecoin Core, which is completely unacceptable.  Namecoin, as previously stated, has nothing to do with the .bit TLD and is not limited to the d/ Namespace.  Anyone who claims otherwise is hostile and deceptive.

This is an open source project, just like Bitcoin; none of you, Daniel Kraft, or Jeremy Rand own it, and none of you are in a position to say that forks are "hostile" and may contain "malware."

Namecoin is much bigger than any of you can imagine, and it has a bright future if the disgusting behavior displayed by those who control the repository on GitHub, or by those who post here nonsensical claims about other Namecoin users, is avoided.  


BayAreaCoins has been helping Namecoin for many years by providing a stable exchange where users can easily, quickly, and anonymously obtain Namecoin in exchange for Bitcoin or other coins.  Any criticism of him is completely ridiculous and unacceptable.

I strongly advise the shenanigan who are spamming this topic to find something else to play with.  You're a complete noob who has never written a single line of code (not even proposed anything positive in an acceptable manner).

I hope neither Daniel Kraft nor Jeremy Rand take this as an insult; I just wanted to make it clear that they have no control over Namecoin and may believe that they are protecting Namecoin from this shenanigan, but that is fundamentally flawed because they themselves contribute to Namecoin's complete centralization, which is not what we want.  They should seriously consider abandoning the project, especially after the recent hard coding of d/ dd/ id/ and idd/ Namespaces into a software that hasn't seen any restrictions on Namespaces in the last 11 years.

We are basically sold out on Namecoin again on our exchange.

Looking for people that are willing to sell NMC at any price and provide ask liquidity!

https://altquick.com/market/Namecoin

Maybe we as a community should try to find this do.id patient application to file an objection. Who knows that their true intentions are for filing a pattent over a supposed decentralised protocol. They already stole $13m investment money based on deceptive claims.

Did anyone from the core team notice that VCs are attacking the .bit domain, currently trying to patent it?

https://domainnamewire.com/2022/11/08/more-companies-try-to-trademark-top-level-domains/

I wasn't able to locate the patent application. This is an especially sneaky attack on the old and established, 100% decentralized .bit of Namecoin. I'm wondering if the community should do anything.

I vote Dan should join the namecoin team.

Yeah well you certainly deserve your share of HNS or the $10.2 Million they promised to FOSS - especially since its not very revolutionary. Just a better auction platform and who cares if they're able to be used in root zone with ICANN. I prefer bit-dns myself. If i was to use a phonebook to call somewhere I didn't want my calls traced to so people could spy on all my personal data and doings - I would liken that to how I would use bit-dns in the future web/metaverse. To route myself somewhere that others can't come and steal information and content from me. A place I own and I built the roads to get to. Namecoin, Devcoin, Bitcoin - began the first ever pool (merge mining too) at pool.devcoin,org on Jan 1, 2012. Now Namecoin moved from Huntercoin to Chimaera (now XAYA) and the metaverse/web3 gaming and socialized markets. Well Devcoin still merge mines with Namecoin and Bitcoin too - and the Galactic Milieu is like the Sandbox but beat it by quite some years in when it began developing its metaverse, rulesets, etc and when the founder of Devcoin - markm - also decided to make a whole treasuries system with blockchain coins and eventually they will all meet in 3D immersive UI - sort of like Huntercoin did, and Xaya does better imo (Unity - GSPs - XayaX - Polygon - MetaMask login and cross-grid (like that Second Life VR term? ) commerce and registry of universal accounts with universal balance sheets across all game channels. Vertically in-game and horizontally across infinite games. Blockchain and network agnostic. That's where we are headed. Can't wait til you all actually discuss Galactic Milieu with me - I know many a time MarkM hung out in Huntercoin/Chronokings topics to explain and even pioneer ideas that later Daniel quoted he was thinking of for a diff implementation... a Namecoin-based OpenID alternative/compatible "NameID" - the rest is history. I am excited to see when you are all done RPG-ing the heck outta me tho I do enjoy figuring things out based on your commitments to keep the public informed! FOSS > The Truth Being Told to You. It's more rewarding and invesing in the project to learn oneself.

We are about sold out of Namecoin due to steady buys.  Please feel free to list some for sale, I sold some for 10% over "market" price today.

https://altquick.com/market/Namecoin

Happy Halving Day

Thanks for the response. It is enlightening to get some insight on these issues from an actual developer.

I had trouble wrapping my head around the idea that "tokens that can expire" at first, and there remains debate as to whether re-registered assets are the same entity as the pre-expired one (with compelling arguments on both sides). But your assessment gives me the final push of conviction I needed to accept them as NFTs.

It is unfortunately true that there is a shystery element that is attached to much of NFT salesmanship. Funny how nobody re-registering or buying these early domains has plans to make websites for them. You probably heard the story of the owner of d/bitcoin refusing a multi-million dollar offer for it.

On the upside, the whole "Historical NFT" movement has brought a lot more attention to Namecoin.

In any case, thanks for your continued dedication to keeping this project moving, and to domob as well. Realized earlier today I've been commenting in this thread since 2014. Looking forward to trying out the new version of Core.

Namecoin Core 22.0 is released; the Manage Names tab is back!  https://www.namecoin.org/2022/08/02/namecoin-core-22.0-released.html


I would draw a distinction between "NFT's" and the "NFT community".  I think it's pretty clear that Namecoin names meet the literal definition of NFT's.  Long before the term "NFT" entered the lexicon, I would explain the difference between Bitcoin and Namecoin to newcomers by saying that the "coins" in Bitcoin are fungible (notwithstanding the criticisms the Monero community would justifiably make) while in Namecoin they are not.  The problem is that the community that has latched onto the term "NFT" is largely made up of scammers, get-rich-quick speculators, and other people that I don't want hanging around Namecoin's spaces.  In particular, we're seeing what are basically blockchain spam attacks from that community, where they've artificially inflated the resale value of historical names in the d/ namespace such that it is now profitable to mass-squat on them with zero intention of ever using these names for real websites.  I've been told by multiple good-Samaritan squatters that they have been repeatedly approached by people from the NFT community who are asking to buy high-value names for "collector" purposes; all of those good-Samaritan squatters told the NFT "collectors" to get fucked.  This behavior from the NFT community is harmful and AFAIK none of the Namecoin community is happy about it.

(What's the betting on whether any of these NFT collectors who are buying up Punycode domains have any idea that there's an open ticket on Namecoin's GitHub for blacklisting Punycode domains on the application layer due to security concerns?)


Daniel's statement remains accurate as far as I know, unless "contributions" includes wasting developers' time on things that don't involve code.  By the way, that "Devoted One" user whom you screenshotted DM'ed me on Twitter saying he wanted to fund Namecoin development, a bit of discussion happened, and then he ghosted as soon as I said he would need to pay the funds into escrow up-front.  I can't *prove* that he was trying to scam the Namecoin developers into adding features he wanted without paying us, but he's not really doing a good job of making me think otherwise.

There's been a lot of debate recently on Twitter among self-professed "NFT Historians" about whether or not "d/bitcoin" is the world's "first NFT", and whether Namecoin names or domains can be classified as "NFTs".

Its become kind of a big deal as people are now paying thousands of dollars for re-registered Namecoin assets; most notable of which are Punycodes, Twitter Eggs and early Namecoin identities.

Kind of interesting to watch it unfold.

While I'm coming around to accept the idea that, OK - even if domains and names expire they can still be considered "NFTs" - one thing that bugs me is that a lot of the pro-"Namecoin assets are NFTs" crowd references this Uwe Martens guy as an "OG Namecoin dev"...



He went by the name Trade Runner on this forum.


Just wondering if domob or biolizard89 could chime in on whether they know if this guy has ever actually contributed anything to Namecoin since this was posted:


Saw a lot of accusations from this guy on the forum, reddit, telegram, and now twitter, but have yet to find any actual code.

Hi,

NMC is a new project to me and I have downloaded the Namecoin Core Wallet on my Mac and the client say: "Connecting to peers" since 2 days (It still at 0%).

Can you help me please?

Thanks

- Mr. Dépression

We've just released ncdns v0.3.  This release adds Tor Browser configuration to the Windows installer, along with the usual round of assorted bugfixes and code quality improvements.  Huge thank you to NLnet, the Netherlands government, and Cyphrs for funding this release, and huge thanks to the various code contributors, including Hugo, Redfish, Lola, Yanmaani, and Nicolas.  https://www.namecoin.org/2022/05/27/ncdns-v0.3-released.html

In less exciting (but still good) news, I fixed DNS over TCP support in the Golang DNS seeder, which should improve reliability of the DNS seeds for Namecoin Core.  https://www.namecoin.org/2022/05/22/go-dns-seeder-tcp.html