[announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 58.

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Darkcoin now has around 900 decentralized nodes running its anonymity mixing system. After the coming update to release what is expected to be the last release candidate before open sourcing the anonymity aspect of the project, and the independent audit of the anonymity + overall code, the devs are considering developing an alternative to Tor using the nodes already up and the ones that are expected to join the new network.

Someone has suggested using namecoin for one of the possible aspects of the network:

Quote from: coins101 on August 31, 2014, 08:12:01 AM

Quote from: georgem on August 31, 2014, 08:04:26 AM

Quote from: coins101 on August 31, 2014, 07:54:50 AM

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/darkcoin-unofficial-strategic-development-of-ecash-579976

About .drk and .mn registrations, why not integrating namecoins .bit domains into this coming darknet?
.bit domains have been around quite some time now, and it would be wise to cooperate between existing coins instead of trying to do everything yourself.

The problem with .bit domains has always been how do you make .bit domains visible in an ordinary browser?

For .bit domains there have appeared a few plugins:

www.meowbit.com
www.freespeechme.org

Still, everybody who wants to view .bit domains has to install a plugin, and that is a big hurdle.
If darktor/darknet were able to integrate .bit domains, that would be fantastic for both namecoin and darkcoin.

I suspect they just need to reach out to the DRK devs and community to see if something could be worked on jointly, or if DRK can provide a route on to the eventual network.

Traffic generates costs, as long as there is an incentive for MN I can't see why the DRK devs (I can't speak for them) would not take a look.

I haven't raised this with the DRK devs, so it may be a little premature to raise it here....but just wondering what the feedback might be on the possible fit.

Thanks.

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An entity (pool or exchange) is aggregating lots of low value outputs. As this is good for the system in regard to future pruning efforts it is currently causing client time outs for miners, thus they go offline a lot. The entity seems to own a lot of NMC so it probably is not a deliberate attack.

The transactions come in waves of a couple hundreds to thousands, they are 18kb (100 inputs) or 27kb (150 inputs) large. They only cost the relay fee / kb to relay. The functions underlying the RPC call "getauxblock" can take quite a long time to go through processing these.

What we are doing in the new version to fix the issue is caching input information necessary for the mining relevant RPC calls (thanks again Domob!). Also we will limit tx size to 20kb as it's worse with larger tx O(numberInputs * txSize) and increase the relay fee to 1/5 of the minTxFee.

Give the new version a shot if you are experiencing issues, it should be especially helpful to miners:
Github: https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin/tree/v0.3.76beta
Windows installer: Namecoin_v0.3.76beta_setup.exe
sha256: 6f23032d4365571b5133aa0a54c97407d46a71e13fb53927ebd50fc9e1be34ee
Changelog

x-post from https://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?p=12459#p12459

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Quote from: BitPla.net on July 20, 2014, 10:45:52 AM

Namecoin wallpaper and stl. file for 3D printing now available for download
on http://www.bitpla.net/2014/07/namecoin-nmc.html

Now you can make your own physical Namecoin

http://i59.tinypic.com/2b5chj.jpg http://i62.tinypic.com/2j1k8sx.jpg

Very interesting. Doesn't seem all that useful though.

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Crypto is the separation of Power and State.

Relevant to our interests:

Using the mini-blockchain for decentralized DNS and encrypted internet layer
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8437811

I don't entirely understand BitFreak's proposal yet but it seems very impressive, with many fancy words and clever techno-magic! Cool

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namecoind (Linux) freaks out since a few days. 100% CPU. Unresponsive.

I debug problem and found mlock() is silently failing. Problem can be solved by increasing RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for the process.

Easy way to do this is from root shell: ulimit -l unlimited

Then start namecoind as a child process from the root shell. Preferably as a different user.

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Any block explorer with API for NMC?

Edit: Got it from other thread.

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Quote from: tito13kfm on June 16, 2011, 08:28:07 PM

Quote from: RyanWebber on June 16, 2011, 05:32:51 PM

I'm having a problem with the .conf file. Is there a special way it needs to be created? the way I was doing it was with a text document named bitoin.conf and I'd put a user name and pass in it yet it still doesn't work. Namecoind closes automatically by itself still and if I run namecoind commands in CMD I get this error:

error: You must set rpcpassword= in the configuration file:
C:/Users/Edit/AppData/Roaming/Namecoin/bitcoin.conf

The file is in the correct place. I must be doing something wrong. Any ideas?

Most likely the file is having .txt appended to it by notepad. How to check.

Open a command prompt
type
move C:/Users/Edit/AppData/Roaming/Namecoin/bitcoin.conf.txt C:/Users/Edit/AppData/Roaming/Namecoin/bitcoin.conf

Try to start bitcoind again

Hey this is the future calling (present... well past, now) and I just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Your advice helped my digital toy go. I'm glad the basics haven't changed much.

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phelix

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Secure anonymous voting with centralized identification entity: Entity hands out voting tokens (names) to verified IDs. Users do a couple rounds of coinjoin with the voting tokens whenever they feel like it. Vote through the token. Repeat for the next vote.

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Quote from: domob on July 14, 2014, 12:30:50 AM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on July 13, 2014, 12:53:21 PM

Well done domob, the vision becomes reality ... might be sending a tip to id/domob now it is so easy Wink

Thanks, I'm glad you (and others) like it!

Would there be any way of permitting access to fields? Ex: The ID and website address are accessible to anyone but other fields are only accessible by consent, someone has to have your permission via their own ID to view your email, phone number, etc. I was thinking something along the lines of levels of permission but entry by entry would probably be more versatile.

I can see some applications for this, but in principle, everything you have in the blockchain is public. So the only way to achieve what you are asking about is to encrypt certain fields, and share the keys with selected people - or something along these lines. One could probably work out the details, but so far, noone has stated interest in something like that. Feel free to share any ideas you have, though.

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Saw this in Bitcoin discussion seems interesting enough to post here since its a Trendmicro paper analyzing the namecoin project

Bitcoin Domains

http://www.trendmicro.com.au/cloud-content/us/pdfs/security-intelligence/white-papers/wp-bitcoin-domains.pdf

"This paper will attempt to explain what ADR TLDs are and describe the current scope of .bit domains, enumerate .bit domains’ weaknesses, and present a case study of a .bit Trojan and prospective malicious uses of .bit domains."

I'm curious about the botnet that is operating in the namecoin system and was wondering if you guys had any idea on that part of the paper and how it would be avoided.

The Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™, a cloud security infrastructure that rapidly and accurately identifies new threats and delivers global threat intelligence to secure data wherever it resides, detected a botnet that operates with .bit domains

I believe this is Circa 2013 based on Last access November 12, 2013 on the citations so if I missed the discussion feel free to correct or direct me to it.

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Quote from: deepceleron on July 16, 2014, 09:54:18 AM

Quote from: domob on July 14, 2014, 12:30:50 AM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on July 13, 2014, 12:53:21 PM

Well done domob, the vision becomes reality ... might be sending a tip to id/domob now it is so easy Wink

Thanks, I'm glad you (and others) like it!

What is the spec of this, does it parse full JSONs, etc?

As an example, here is one of the first id namespaces, my id/deepceleron with a signed message:
{"info": "1DCeLERonUTsTERdpUNqxKTVMmnwU6reu5", "cert": {"address": "1DCeLERonUTsTERdpUNqxKTVMmnwU6reu5", "id": "deepceleron", "info": "deepceleron CA", "authority": "deepceleron", "authbtc": "1DCeLERonUTsTERdpUNqxKTVMmnwU6reu5", "authnmc": "N76D6hEHB55cGPk8QiG6ysgMbXb11b3nAH"}, "sig": "GweBRP+1YnKIMmXuwtsk4zlR7jUuPZxiazfNUbheGRMkomMs4lo/XpNpCDVLujrEynCGYe9dxs/M9nOp98EsXpI="}

As you can see, "info" is a Bitcoin address, and other stuff is inside a "cert", and that cert message is signed by the Bitcoin address.

Nah, it directly uses the address that actually holds the name.

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Quote from: domob on July 14, 2014, 12:30:50 AM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on July 13, 2014, 12:53:21 PM

Well done domob, the vision becomes reality ... might be sending a tip to id/domob now it is so easy Wink

Thanks, I'm glad you (and others) like it!

What is the spec of this, does it parse full JSONs, etc?

As an example, here is one of the first id namespaces, my id/deepceleron with a signed message:
{"info": "1DCeLERonUTsTERdpUNqxKTVMmnwU6reu5", "cert": {"address": "1DCeLERonUTsTERdpUNqxKTVMmnwU6reu5", "id": "deepceleron", "info": "deepceleron CA", "authority": "deepceleron", "authbtc": "1DCeLERonUTsTERdpUNqxKTVMmnwU6reu5", "authnmc": "N76D6hEHB55cGPk8QiG6ysgMbXb11b3nAH"}, "sig": "GweBRP+1YnKIMmXuwtsk4zlR7jUuPZxiazfNUbheGRMkomMs4lo/XpNpCDVLujrEynCGYe9dxs/M9nOp98EsXpI="}

As you can see, "info" is a Bitcoin address, and other stuff is inside a "cert", and that cert message is signed by the Bitcoin address.

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Eadem mutata resurgo

Quote from: kagawawa on July 14, 2014, 03:34:57 AM

Who are devs of Namecoin?

that's a moving target ... there are few of us, some come and go too. Some disappear forever Sad

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Who are devs of Namecoin?

freedomno1

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Learning the troll avoidance button :)

Namecoin wallet nice
Congrats it has been a long time coming and will certainly help usability

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Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on July 13, 2014, 12:53:21 PM

Well done domob, the vision becomes reality ... might be sending a tip to id/domob now it is so easy Wink

Thanks, I'm glad you (and others) like it!

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Eadem mutata resurgo

Well done domob, the vision becomes reality ... might be sending a tip to id/domob now it is so easy Wink

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Quote from: phelix on July 10, 2014, 11:45:26 AM

Domob's latest trick:

Merged on git, will be included in the next release.

Note this just looks up the address holding the name so there is still room for privacy improvements, e.g. stealth addresses or something. But for public addresses like donation addresses it's pretty cool.

Oh shit noice!!! Now we just need Bitcoin Core to integrate it too, then namecoin, bitcoin, and bitmessage can call be used without addresses, but with a single namecoin id.

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Domob's latest trick:

Merged on git, will be included in the next release.

Note this just looks up the address holding the name so there is still room for privacy improvements, e.g. stealth addresses or something. But for public addresses like donation addresses it's pretty cool.

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