[announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 50.

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Quote from: btc_enigma on September 28, 2015, 11:05:40 AM

I like this project . One of the few altcoins that make sense and are useful. Sad to see onename and other projects move away from namecoin.

Here is our answer to that: http://blog.namecoin.org/post/130158040415/onenames-blockstore-is-much-less-secure-than
And here the ongoing discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3mwtw8/onenames_blockstore_is_much_less_secure_than/

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Just curious , has the bitcoin core pruning feature -prune been ported to namecoin ? This allow to run nodes with minimal hard disk requirement

We are now stay in sync with Bitcoin. I don't know if anybody has yet tried pruning. With the Namecoin blockchain still being way smaller it is a lower priority and we rather want to go towards SPV.

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I like this project . One of the few altcoins that make sense and are useful. Sad to see onename and other projects move away from namecoin.
Just curious , has the bitcoin core pruning feature -prune been ported to namecoin ? This allow to run nodes with minimal hard disk requirement

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Quote from: Elwar on September 28, 2015, 04:48:35 AM

With Onename switching to Bitcoin, will Namecoin be used at all for OpenBazaar?

Not that I know of. Onename and OpenBazaar both belong to the same VC company. Onename never answered my question about their business model so it smells like they will monetize lookups to their server (for "decentralized" data).

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Viva Ut Vivas

With Onename switching to Bitcoin, will Namecoin be used at all for OpenBazaar?

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Quote from: bitcoinrocks on September 20, 2015, 04:28:37 PM

Is there a Namecoin slack channel?

No but there is #namecoin-dev on freenode and http://gitter.im/namecoin/lounge (bridged)

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Is there a Namecoin slack channel?

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ShapeShift has added a buy/sell feature to the real time market data website CoinCap.io! You can now buy or sell Namecoin straight from the market data website. Learn more about this here: http://bit.ly/1UVFZ7m

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Quote from: deepceleron on August 23, 2015, 08:06:38 AM

Namecoin is not dead. It just did what other scamcoins won't, and moved it's conversation to its own forum.

https://forum.namecoin.info/

Exactly.

Everybody thinking Namecoin is inactive please just take a look here: http://zmoazeni.github.io/gitspective/#/timeline/namecoin

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Namecoin is not dead. It just did what other scamcoins won't, and moved its conversation to its own forum.

https://forum.namecoin.info/

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It is a pity Namecoin did not kick off at all, or all of us can be using dot bit easily

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Quote from: BornBlazed on August 19, 2015, 06:34:19 AM

RIP Namecoin

Care to elaborate?

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RIP Namecoin

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I've had 630 namecoins in a wallet for a couple years now. When I try to send some to a exchange or different wallet I get a error that says Error: Transaction creation failed! Can anyone help me with this.

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Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on August 06, 2015, 06:30:23 AM

Quote from: domob on August 06, 2015, 04:13:20 AM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on August 06, 2015, 03:50:32 AM

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Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on August 03, 2015, 07:04:52 PM

Quote from: -ck on August 03, 2015, 06:58:56 PM

I hope most people who are interested in namecoin are aware that one mining pool has a majority control over the namecoin network... f2pool now controls 75% of the hashrate of namecoin. The significance of this should be readily apparent.

... this outcome maybe the inevitable result of the economic incentives due to merge-mining. And a lesser degree due to poor code-base maintenance.

We need to get one or better two of the large Bitcoin pools to merge mine Namecoin. Hopefully the new Namecoin Core, branched off current Bitcoin, will help. IIRC somebody is working on a tutorial on how to set up merged mining.

Also if we could get more users/supporters and the price would rise this would probably be solved quickly.

My point being an unmaintained, merged-mine coin basically costs more than it is worth, to more and more mining pools until there is only one and then ....

Are you sure about that (emphasis mine)? Have you taken a look at Namecoin Core in the last couple of months?

I think I was next person after you to build it ... and build/test it regularly, so far, so good. NB: reducing feature set by removing "Manage Names" from namecore-qt whenever the upgrade officially takes place will reduce demand of nmc.

Mostly I was referring to the fragmented nature of the previous versions 0.3.50 and 0.3.80, scattered packaging and unmergeable code forking branches.

I hope you can at least recognize some of our efforts and achievements. It is easier to stand on the side and point fingers than to actually move things forward.

btw: I would be happy to further discuss the name_op GUI implementation with you. Or the roadmap... Grin

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Quote from: domob on August 06, 2015, 04:13:20 AM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on August 06, 2015, 03:50:32 AM

Quote from: phelix on August 06, 2015, 03:16:37 AM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on August 03, 2015, 07:04:52 PM

Quote from: -ck on August 03, 2015, 06:58:56 PM

I hope most people who are interested in namecoin are aware that one mining pool has a majority control over the namecoin network... f2pool now controls 75% of the hashrate of namecoin. The significance of this should be readily apparent.

... this outcome maybe the inevitable result of the economic incentives due to merge-mining. And a lesser degree due to poor code-base maintenance.

We need to get one or better two of the large Bitcoin pools to merge mine Namecoin. Hopefully the new Namecoin Core, branched off current Bitcoin, will help. IIRC somebody is working on a tutorial on how to set up merged mining.

Also if we could get more users/supporters and the price would rise this would probably be solved quickly.

My point being an unmaintained, merged-mine coin basically costs more than it is worth, to more and more mining pools until there is only one and then ....

Are you sure about that (emphasis mine)? Have you taken a look at Namecoin Core in the last couple of months?

I think I was next person after you to build it ... and build/test it regularly, so far, so good. NB: reducing feature set by removing "Manage Names" from namecore-qt whenever the upgrade officially takes place will reduce demand of nmc.

Mostly I was referring to the fragmented nature of the previous versions 0.3.50 and 0.3.80, scattered packaging and unmergeable code forking branches.

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Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on August 06, 2015, 03:50:32 AM

Quote from: phelix on August 06, 2015, 03:16:37 AM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on August 03, 2015, 07:04:52 PM

Quote from: -ck on August 03, 2015, 06:58:56 PM

I hope most people who are interested in namecoin are aware that one mining pool has a majority control over the namecoin network... f2pool now controls 75% of the hashrate of namecoin. The significance of this should be readily apparent.

... this outcome maybe the inevitable result of the economic incentives due to merge-mining. And a lesser degree due to poor code-base maintenance.

We need to get one or better two of the large Bitcoin pools to merge mine Namecoin. Hopefully the new Namecoin Core, branched off current Bitcoin, will help. IIRC somebody is working on a tutorial on how to set up merged mining.

Also if we could get more users/supporters and the price would rise this would probably be solved quickly.

My point being an unmaintained, merged-mine coin basically costs more than it is worth, to more and more mining pools until there is only one and then ....

Are you sure about that (emphasis mine)? Have you taken a look at Namecoin Core in the last couple of months?

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Quote from: phelix on August 06, 2015, 03:16:37 AM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on August 03, 2015, 07:04:52 PM

Quote from: -ck on August 03, 2015, 06:58:56 PM

I hope most people who are interested in namecoin are aware that one mining pool has a majority control over the namecoin network... f2pool now controls 75% of the hashrate of namecoin. The significance of this should be readily apparent.

... this outcome maybe the inevitable result of the economic incentives due to merge-mining. And a lesser degree due to poor code-base maintenance.

We need to get one or better two of the large Bitcoin pools to merge mine Namecoin. Hopefully the new Namecoin Core, branched off current Bitcoin, will help. IIRC somebody is working on a tutorial on how to set up merged mining.

Also if we could get more users/supporters and the price would rise this would probably be solved quickly.

My point being an unmaintained, merged-mine coin basically costs more than it is worth, to more and more mining pools until there is only one and then ....

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Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on August 03, 2015, 07:04:52 PM

Quote from: -ck on August 03, 2015, 06:58:56 PM

I hope most people who are interested in namecoin are aware that one mining pool has a majority control over the namecoin network... f2pool now controls 75% of the hashrate of namecoin. The significance of this should be readily apparent.

... this outcome maybe the inevitable result of the economic incentives due to merge-mining. And a lesser degree due to poor code-base maintenance.

We need to get one or better two of the large Bitcoin pools to merge mine Namecoin. Hopefully the new Namecoin Core, branched off current Bitcoin, will help. IIRC somebody is working on a tutorial on how to set up merged mining.

Also if we could get more users/supporters and the price would rise this would probably be solved quickly.

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Quote from: -ck on August 03, 2015, 06:58:56 PM

I hope most people who are interested in namecoin are aware that one mining pool has a majority control over the namecoin network... f2pool now controls 75% of the hashrate of namecoin. The significance of this should be readily apparent.

... this outcome maybe the inevitable result of the economic incentives due to merge-mining. And a lesser degree due to poor code-base maintenance.

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Ruu \o/

I hope most people who are interested in namecoin are aware that one mining pool has a majority control over the namecoin network... f2pool now controls 75% of the hashrate of namecoin. The significance of this should be readily apparent.

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