Topic: [announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 43. (Read 597092 times)

Is there Trezor for Namecoin? A friend is asking me... I really have to read through the docs

  I've got time. Are you on github guys. I can start pulling french translation like that. I just came across, wanna help you guys. I watched the presentation as well and see that there is a dev activity, Let's connect!!!

IRC Channel: http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/details.php?room=%23namecoin&net=freenode

Original Thread by the Creator of Namecoin - Vinced:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/announce-namecoin-a-distributed-naming-system-based-on-bitcoin-6017

Info about Namecoin:http://dot-bit.org/FAQ, http://namecoin.info/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/namecoin.bit
Forum: https://www.namecoin.org
Bct:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236375.360
Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/Namecoin/new/
Last meeting in Copenhagen: https://schedule.icann.org/event/9nqD/emerging-identifiers-technology
News:https://www.namecoin.org/2017/04/17/icann-58-summary.html
Happy .bit and name Registering (squatting) - currently low price Smiley easy way to view .bit https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/nmc-faster-browsing-with-acrylic-dns-proxy-cache-bit-enabled-205026
Latest Namecoin News will go here:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/nmc-namecoin-news-thread-236340, or http://dot-bit.org/forum/index.php
Telegram:https://telegram.me/namecoin

More discourse about ICANN here: https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin.org/commit/00a1e211e647d482fb31aecfd15f6740734ee15d

I must admit I'm mildly skeptical about short-lived marketing campaigns for altcoins. Most of them fail because they seem to expect "immediate results", or call it "a quick buck".
If Alexoz has an elaborate idea how to attract long-term attention to Namecoin, though, then I'd say welcome to the team.

Need a community and better governance... My friend invested 50k back in the day, and he doesn't really brings something to the community just an example... But he holds his 4500 coins ^^

I know, it's a shame. Gnosis 300Mil market cap mouarf... Big dump incoming...

Let's build this community. I've got 2 answers in 24h good!

Can we create a Slack, it's easier nah?

ICO s raising mountains of money these days off the backs of bitcoin,namecoin et al=greed is good and it pays the bills while selfless opensource projects struggle for funds and fizzle out.Look at all these gold toothed gangsta rich ICO rappers stomping about the place after swapping the jungle juice and koolade for remy martin and chateau de whorehouse.Namecoin needs some of that ICO action and raise a few hundred mill for some namebooty.

I can't even access to IRC guys...

Not working http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/details.php?room=%23namecoin&net=freenode

Here a post on the forum: https://forum.namecoin.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2633&sid=35c7add37d6ac0f971514e84155e0883

I found you guys!

Who is willing to do a commercial push, managing a Slack and expand?

Can't sync my wallet. What to do?

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/

Am I correct in assuming that the purpose of this coin is similar to some kind of decentralized GoDaddy?

The summary of my attendance at ICANN58 is posted.

https://www.namecoin.org/2017/04/17/icann-58-summary.html

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. 


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.


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.


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.


No worries. 

I'm having good vibes. Got a couple of BTC in NMC. Let's wait and see.

Old coin, but I never actually looked into it. Will do that now since it is still active.

Doesn't look dead to me - https://twitter.com/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.)

What version of Namecoin are you using?