[announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 61.

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Quote from: benjyz on February 19, 2014, 10:44:54 AM

thanks - interesting. its very early days. to bootstrap a worldwide internet DNS infrastructure is not exactly a trivial task.

^ This!

You'd be amazed at the screechy demands we're getting.....All from people who haven't donated a cent to help.

It's as if they think we at the FreeSpeechMe team have a button on our computer screens marked "IMPLEMENT NEW FUNCTIONALITY NOW INTO BETA WORLDWIDE NON-DISTRIBUTED DNS SYSTEM" and we just have to type in their idea and hit that button. lol.

People have to understand that rolling out software (and adoption of that software) is a process and you have to start somewhere. It’s hard to make and test improvements, but without rolling out a beta, those improvements cannot happen.

It’s kind of like if, in the late 1800s, Alexander Graham Bell had released his telephone and people had said “We’re not interested in this unless we can carry it in our pocket, watch movies on it and type to anyone in the world. Let us know when you’ve got THAT!”

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Quote from: bitpop on February 19, 2014, 10:59:18 AM

Icann is a fucking mob scam
.bike??? Wtf

lol. Yup. ICANN is saying on their site:
"1000 new TLDs. The Internet will never be the same!"

I say:
"1000 new ICANN TLDs? That's just 1000 new comfy jail cells.
But FreeSpeechMe and Dot-Bit?: The Internet will never be the same!"

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thanks - interesting. its very early days. to bootstrap a worldwide internet DNS infrastructure is not exactly a trivial task. the more important the Global Name System becomes, the more it is necessary. the recent design decisions of the new TLD system are so truly terrible and corrupted, that I have come to the conclusion that at some point it's going to happen, whether it will be 5 or 20 years. one can't trust ICANN or any corporate regime to evolve the free internet. the original BitDNS thread is pretty inspiring and I hope this will pick up again. a superior system could catch on if the benefits are clear.

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Quote from: benjyz on February 19, 2014, 07:21:43 AM

there is much more than we can do than just imitate old DNS.

NameId already works. Used for OpenID and Bitmessage. See http://nameid.org/
BitNymes are on its way, see http://pibara.github.io/bitnym/
Discussions on a few other ideas (e.g. blockchain-based voting, bonds/shares registry) have indeed stalled, unfortunately.

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I tried a couple of .bit's. not all that interesting at the moment. the problem seems to be DNS itself. downloading the blockchain through a plugin is not much better. its just a pain to set it up and very few people are going to do it. there is no network effect. but the potential is mind boggling. anyone in for tossing around some new ideas? there is much more than we can do than just imitate old DNS.

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FreeSpeechMe, Dot-Bit, Namecoin: Internet of future in "Quantum Vibe" graphic novel:

Prometheus Award Winner Scott Bieser put Namecoin into the future today in his Quantum Vibe graphic novel (It's online, but becomes a published collection in books every year or so.)

Full panel here:
http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=773

Excerpt / closeup:

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Quote from: lunarboy on January 07, 2014, 10:46:25 PM

whats going on? exciting upgrades or DDOS of everything?

This is the HUGE Namecoin news. It now has a killer app:

FreeSpeechMe, the Namecoin-based Anti-Censorship, Anti-Hijacking Dot-Bit Plug-in for Windows and GNU/Linux.

Info, video, program, tutorials and source code:
http://www.freespeechme.org/
Mirror http://freespeechme.com
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Quote from: luv2drnkbr on January 21, 2014, 03:28:36 AM

Is there a standardized namespace for publishing documents yet? I'm seeing posts on /r/bitcoin about cryptographic time-stamping, and this just seems like the perfect thing for namecoin. Like "doc/" or "pub/" namespace for publishing documents, and then the name values can be the hash, and a location to download, and the author's name and stuff like that. So it's useful info, and then even if the name expires, it's still in the blockchain and can serve as a time-stamp proof if needed in the future.

Idea for a new utility-based non-currency coin
http://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1593

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Quote from: davispuh on February 18, 2014, 07:03:55 AM

I've known Namecoin for long time, but never really much followed it, so I'm wondering:

who currently are official Namecoin developers?
which are official domains/sites managed by project?
which repositories are official?

I think it used to be http://dot-bit.org/ but now seems it's http://namecoin.info/ ? Also are http://github.com/namecoin/ official repositories?

As mentioned already, there are several people actively working on different aspects of the Namecoin project, so it is hard to name some as "official" developers. But to your last question, it is two times "yes". Both dot-bit.org and namecoin.info are managed by community members that could be seen as part of the "official" core dev team, and the Github link is indeed what everyone considers to be the main repository (also managed by these community members).

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Namecoin is more a community coin than any other; there are no "official" developers, it is open to contributions from all. This makes it hard to suss out what the best binary client is to use even after perusing the Namecoin forums. Right now I would say the most legitimate build is that on namecoin.info - namecoin_win_vQ.3.72.

The community status also means it won't die, like other alt-coins do when the original "developer" quits after doing their pump-and-dump.

Getting such a new version is required because of a flaw revealed several months ago of a vital signature check not being done by older clients when verifying name updates.

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I've known Namecoin for long time, but never really much followed it, so I'm wondering:

who currently are official Namecoin developers?
which are official domains/sites managed by project?
which repositories are official?

I think it used to be http://dot-bit.org/ but now seems it's http://namecoin.info/ ? Also are http://github.com/namecoin/ official repositories?

It would be nice if it all would be written in single place as it's quite easy for someone to impersonate and distribute infected binaries/code.

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Eadem mutata resurgo

Quote from: luv2drnkbr on January 21, 2014, 03:28:36 AM

Is there a standardized namespace for publishing documents yet? I'm seeing posts on /r/bitcoin about cryptographic time-stamping, and this just seems like the perfect thing for namecoin. Like "doc/" or "pub/" namespace for publishing documents, and then the name values can be the hash, and a location to download, and the author's name and stuff like that. So it's useful info, and then even if the name expires, it's still in the blockchain and can serve as a time-stamp proof if needed in the future.

yup ... namecoin is just waiting for any number of notary and registrar applications to be built upon it.

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Quote from: luv2drnkbr on January 21, 2014, 03:28:36 AM

Is there a standardized namespace for publishing documents yet? I'm seeing posts on /r/bitcoin about cryptographic time-stamping, and this just seems like the perfect thing for namecoin. Like "doc/" or "pub/" namespace for publishing documents, and then the name values can be the hash, and a location to download, and the author's name and stuff like that. So it's useful info, and then even if the name expires, it's still in the blockchain and can serve as a time-stamp proof if needed in the future.

Not that I'm aware of. However, I agree that Namecoin is perfect for timestamping. I do it myself by just setting an arbitrary name's value to the document's hash. As you state, you can reuse the name later for other timestamps, or let it expire - the document's hash will be in the blockchain as proof-of-existence at the given time forever. In my case, I'm only interested in storing the hash, and don't want to publish the document itself in the blockchain (not sure if this makes sense at all, since you would have to pay lots of fees for even small files) or a pointer to it. I suggest that if you want to create a public timestamped library, you could do so by setting up a separate service, and just link to a specific Namecoin transaction in the blockchain as the timestamp.

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Is there a standardized namespace for publishing documents yet? I'm seeing posts on /r/bitcoin about cryptographic time-stamping, and this just seems like the perfect thing for namecoin. Like "doc/" or "pub/" namespace for publishing documents, and then the name values can be the hash, and a location to download, and the author's name and stuff like that. So it's useful info, and then even if the name expires, it's still in the blockchain and can serve as a time-stamp proof if needed in the future.

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Quote from: deepceleron on January 09, 2014, 03:02:39 PM

Quote from: phelix on January 08, 2014, 06:09:02 PM

https still works:
https://dot-bit.org/forum/index.php
you will probably have to add a certificate exception

Probably? It's self signed, and expired 2012, its probably the default apache cert.

https://explorer.dot-bit.org/ shows the alternc, but is trying to redirect to https://srv01.web-sweet-web.net/ which has a self-signed dot-bit.bit cert. If I didn't have any information, I would say hacked and reset.

Turns out it was just some misconfiguration and took a while because the servers were moved. No worries Cheesy

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Quote from: phelix on January 08, 2014, 06:09:02 PM

https still works:
https://dot-bit.org/forum/index.php
you will probably have to add a certificate exception

Probably? It's self signed, and expired 2012, its probably the default apache cert.

https://explorer.dot-bit.org/ shows the alternc, but is trying to redirect to https://srv01.web-sweet-web.net/ which has a self-signed dot-bit.bit cert. If I didn't have any information, I would say hacked and reset.

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https still works:
https://dot-bit.org/forum/index.php
you will probably have to add a certificate exception

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Quote from: snailbrain on January 07, 2014, 10:07:23 PM

Quote from: bitpop on January 07, 2014, 09:57:32 PM

Quote from: snailbrain on January 07, 2014, 09:49:52 PM

namecoin website/explorer currently down temporally..

if you need to use a block explorer you can use

http://192.241.222.65/chain/Namecoin

Abe Block explorer, installed by John the creator

Get an afraid dns u

there's a .bit domain linked, but unfortunately i cannot remember it (it's on the forum) Cheesy

it's http://digga.bit but the server does not seem to recognize it...

oh boy Undecided

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whats going on? exciting upgrades or DDOS of everything?

I'm getting namecoin.info/‎ and http://dot-bit.org/ with new AlternC access page. Just checking this is supposed to be there before I enter any login details?

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Quote from: bitpop on January 07, 2014, 09:57:32 PM

Quote from: snailbrain on January 07, 2014, 09:49:52 PM

namecoin website/explorer currently down temporally..

if you need to use a block explorer you can use

http://192.241.222.65/chain/Namecoin

Abe Block explorer, installed by John the creator

Get an afraid dns u

there's a .bit domain linked, but unfortunately i cannot remember it (it's on the forum) Cheesy

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