Topic: [announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 42. (Read 596107 times)
April 25, 2017, 12:05:25 AM
Here a post on the forum: https://forum.namecoin.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2633&sid=35c7add37d6ac0f971514e84155e0883
April 24, 2017, 12:17:22 PM
I found you guys!
Who is willing to do a commercial push, managing a Slack and expand?
Who is willing to do a commercial push, managing a Slack and expand?
April 21, 2017, 04:43:58 AM
Can't sync my wallet. What to do?
April 20, 2017, 01:25:12 PM
Am I correct in assuming that the purpose of this coin is similar to some kind of decentralized GoDaddy?
That said, I see plenty of room for diversification into identity-related applications. Daniel Kraft's NameID is a really cool proof of concept; I have some ideas on how it could be improved. There are several other use case ideas that have been thrown around, and just no one has had a chance to work on them yet.
April 20, 2017, 10:42:02 AM
Am I correct in assuming that the purpose of this coin is similar to some kind of decentralized GoDaddy?
Not GoDaddy but more like a decentralized ICANN; DNS.
"Namecoin is an experimental open-source technology which improves decentralization, security, censorship resistance, privacy, and speed of certain components of the Internet infrastructure such as DNS and identities..."
"Namecoin was the first fork of Bitcoin and still is one of the most innovative “altcoins”. It was first to implement merged mining and a decentralized DNS. Namecoin was also the first solution to Zooko’s Triangle, the long-standing problem of producing a naming system that is simultaneously secure, decentralized, and human-meaningful."
https://www.namecoin.org/
April 20, 2017, 10:20:58 AM
Am I correct in assuming that the purpose of this coin is similar to some kind of decentralized GoDaddy?
April 20, 2017, 02:51:48 AM
The summary of my attendance at ICANN58 is posted.
https://www.namecoin.org/2017/04/17/icann-58-summary.html
https://www.namecoin.org/2017/04/17/icann-58-summary.html
April 20, 2017, 02:45:14 AM
I'd love to hear suggestions on how we could do a better job on this.
Perhaps, some additional work on the features of the coin, that would appeal to the greater audience. If there is no displeasure with the idea of the more "financial" coin.
I don't see much reason to try to compete with Bitcoin, if that's what you mean by "financial". Bitcoin already works extremely well at what it does. Remember the Unix philosophy.
a) Some work on the features enabling greater swiftness of the transactions (segwit, lightninings, the like). Regular info updates on this work.
We recently activated CLTV; up next in the consensus fork department is AAA, then CSV, and then I think we'll activate SegWit. That said, we pretty much always follow what Bitcoin does, so if by some chance SegWit is still being held up in Bitcoin, I think it's somewhat unlikely that we'll try to activate before Bitcoin.
I really like Lightning, and we have some plans where Lightning will be highly useful.
b) Clearly, visibly, outlined emphasis on those privacy/security features, which differentiate the n. from the other coins, or put it in the same league with the more advanced ones (in terms of privacy, security)
Privacy/security is a strong focus for me at the moment. On the privacy front, while I was in London for QCon last month, I met up with Riccardo Spagni from Monero to discuss collaboration plans; I'm also engaging with the Tor people. On the security front, one of the use cases that we're really pushing is TLS... hopefully an announcement will be made soon on this front.
c) It appears that at the moment namecoin mostly covers the narrow field: "bit" domains, etc. So, some additional emphasis can be made on the other things, and the website design can embody this (more simple finance-oriented sections separated from the more specialized bit/dns-oriented sections).
See my above comment on the Unix philosophy. There are lots of blockchains that specialize in being a currency (mainly Bitcoin); we specialize in naming. That said, I see plenty of room for diversification into identity-related applications. Daniel Kraft's NameID is a really cool proof of concept; I have some ideas on how it could be improved. There are several other use case ideas that have been thrown around, and just no one has had a chance to work on them yet.
I am not sure, though, if my ideas make any sense, and are not just a waste of time and efforts for the devs.
No worries.
April 16, 2017, 08:35:15 PM
I'm having good vibes. Got a couple of BTC in NMC. Let's wait and see.
April 15, 2017, 02:03:33 PM
Old coin, but I never actually looked into it. Will do that now since it is still active.
April 15, 2017, 02:02:49 PM
Doesn't look dead to me - https://twitter.com/Namecoin
April 11, 2017, 12:12:02 AM
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Agree on that. Definitely need some marketing, website revamp, make it more user friendly. And a lot of social media exposure.
To quote from the net: "If upgrades never happen, progress in Bitcoin will stagnate, and developers will migrate to other ecosystems." The same applies to the Namecoin.
Given that Namecoin activated a softfork in the last month, I don't think we're particularly at risk of never upgrading. More developers/volunteers wouldn't hurt though. (I suppose more funding wouldn't hurt either, though that's harder.)
April 11, 2017, 12:08:05 AM
My wallet is stuck at 150 weeks behind but I have 8 connections, does anyone have a solution?
What version of Namecoin are you using?
April 11, 2017, 12:05:03 AM
So any news come out of the ICANN conference?
He said at least he was going to post his presentation slides.
He said at least he was going to post his presentation slides.
A summary of how things went at ICANN58 (including my slides) should be posted in circa 2-3 days. (It's already written, I'm just giving the other Namecoin devs a few days to request any changes that might be needed.) Sorry for the delay -- as with most free software projects, writing stuff in English tends to take a backseat to writing stuff in (insert programming language here).
Seems it'll be another few days, as one of the developers requested changes to the news post I wrote, so the review process has to be restarted. Apologies for the delay on this -- I realize people are interested in hearing how things went.
April 11, 2017, 12:02:31 AM
A few factors that may help to keep the project financially alive until it reaches its proper fulfillment:
a) Slightly greater publicity here, there and in the social networks/communities is needed. Less important rival projects survive because of that.
b) Better adaptation of the official website to the unexperienced users, particularly, of the wallet, etc.
Is it safe to store namecoins in the hard wallets, such as KeepKey, Trezor?
a) Slightly greater publicity here, there and in the social networks/communities is needed. Less important rival projects survive because of that.
b) Better adaptation of the official website to the unexperienced users, particularly, of the wallet, etc.
Is it safe to store namecoins in the hard wallets, such as KeepKey, Trezor?
Agree on that. Definitely need some marketing, website revamp, make it more user friendly. And a lot of social media exposure.
While I'd love to see better public relations effort for Namecoin, our previous experiments with having technically non-proficient people do marketing on our behalf ended up doing more harm than good. So I don't foresee that happening again. Technically proficient people tend to perceive development as more productive (or just more fun) than marketing, so the technically proficient Namecoin community members haven't done a lot of marketing work. I'd love to hear suggestions on how we could do a better job on this.
April 07, 2017, 12:27:04 AM
So any news come out of the ICANN conference?
He said at least he was going to post his presentation slides.
He said at least he was going to post his presentation slides.
A summary of how things went at ICANN58 (including my slides) should be posted in circa 2-3 days. (It's already written, I'm just giving the other Namecoin devs a few days to request any changes that might be needed.) Sorry for the delay -- as with most free software projects, writing stuff in English tends to take a backseat to writing stuff in (insert programming language here).
April 05, 2017, 12:20:23 AM
A few factors that may help to keep the project financially alive until it reaches its proper fulfillment:
a) Slightly greater publicity here, there and in the social networks/communities is needed. Less important rival projects survive because of that.
b) Better adaptation of the official website to the unexperienced users, particularly, of the wallet, etc.
Is it safe to store namecoins in the hard wallets, such as KeepKey, Trezor?
a) Slightly greater publicity here, there and in the social networks/communities is needed. Less important rival projects survive because of that.
b) Better adaptation of the official website to the unexperienced users, particularly, of the wallet, etc.
Is it safe to store namecoins in the hard wallets, such as KeepKey, Trezor?
Agree on that. Definitely need some marketing, website revamp, make it more user friendly. And a lot of social media exposure.
March 31, 2017, 03:15:42 PM
So will namecoin be activating segwit?Btw is there any bootstrap.dat?
March 31, 2017, 05:33:54 AM
I'm a little concerned about the new Core wallet. Will they be releasing one soon that isn't a pre-release test build? Perhaps there is information somewhere about this, but I can't seem to find it. 
The beta wallet is now the latest version https://www.namecoin.org/download/ and it's perfectly fine to use for users. In fact miners should use it or the previous 0.13rc1 to activate BIP65, only then they will release a new beta to enable BIP9, after that there will be a final release with the bitcoin softfork support that allows segwit enabled... is there really no light wallet?
and how big is the blockchain?
i dont want to buy coins without a lite wallet.
and how big is the blockchain?
i dont want to buy coins without a lite wallet.
Blockchain folder is 4gb. **You can activate prune if you use the latest beta**. In fact if you update from an old wallet you will get twice the blockchain, and you'll have to manually delete the old blockchain from the root folder at appdata/roaming/namecoin/*.blk. the new blockchain format is inside two subfolders.
*Edited: Beta wallet is now on main download page.
March 31, 2017, 04:41:09 AM
I'm a little concerned about the new Core wallet. Will they be releasing one soon that isn't a pre-release test build? Perhaps there is information somewhere about this, but I can't seem to find it.
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