Topic: [announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 77. (Read 596107 times)

What? Where did you take that those would be the most important *for my needs*?

So, in a nutshell no, that will not be enough, not even close to it, for my needs. I will, however, be glad to tip anyone that pushes those 4 rpc calls into namecoin.

I have a new idea. These would be most important imho:
- importprivkey
- dumpprivkey
- signmessage
- verifymessage



There is a little known Namecoin Marketing and Development Fund:
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=473&p=2694


I was not even aware there is a Namecoin subreddit now: http://www.reddit.com/r/namecoin

nmc deserves it's own section <3

No. Namecoin is special since it was designed as a complement for bitcoin (data storage, naming spaces, etc) not a competitor (merged-mining).

And besides it has been in this section since April 2011 and now you want to move it?


snailbrain:


Awesome. I think this alone will be sufficient to revive interest in namecoins and its vision. Make sure it is well-tested, I can help with that ...

This is a preview:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/40390855/namecoin_wallet.html
Logo, domain, translations will come and may be other features also.

Far too many Alt errr Egos 

Today, yes. But this is a thread of historical value. Above people event planted the rumor vinced could be an alter ego of the great Satoshi himself. 

Also it's so messy in the Altcoins section these days. 

Shouldn't this be in Alternate Cryoptocurrencies?

Good work. I like it.
Namecoin is great.
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My utility is a Merged Bitcoin and Namecoin Address and Brain Wallet with the same private key.
Its a fork of bitaddress.org and the same pass-phrase can be used to generate the BTC and NMC address.
So it is less to memorize. I took this idea from the Casascius utility.

Namecoin-qt - based on Namecoin 3.50 + Latest Bitcoin-qt

not far off..

currently encrypt wallet not working
and ----->> sending coins seem to go into oblivion (but working from console it seems).. other than that, seems "ok"... will upload something soon

I have done a little bit Namecoin development in JavaScript but I think it will be useful.
It is still not ready the logo, domain reservation and some translations are incomplete.
Do you want to see it now or do you wait a couple of days until it is ready ?

funny.. i actually thought this myself

Satoshi = Vinced

I just arrived at the same conclusion myself; I got a nodejs implementation able to connect and download the namecoin blockchain up until the merged mining fork at block 19200. Looks like I'll have to delve into the Aux-POW logic to make any more progress.


The benefits of having a compiled binary is speed and simplicity in that its one file to move around, but then you run into these issues; you need to have a trusted compiler who can GPG sign the results and be trusted by the community. That's why I'm liking the possibilities of a Nodejs implementation; it has the power of server and a client, and doesn't have to be compiled, so is a lot easier to verify it's not been tampered with. The advancements in the Bitcoin source have added lots of great features for wallet manipulation and security, and building on a different platform doesn't take full advantage of that, but those can be added incrementally. I'm glad this thread necromancy has revitalized some developers to come out of the woodwork!

ooohhhh aaahhhhhhhh, namecoin updates.  im so excited!

It seems this project has kept him busy recently:
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This quote may explain a little more:





Yes I feel it is the only legit cryptocurrency besides Bitcoin itself, since it is not just some pump-and-dump clone coin created only as some get rich quick scheme but has an actual use (potentially many) which, as mentioned, will compliment Bitcoin and not be in competition with it among speculators.  


Perhaps if khal sees more people willing to step up and help out he may find more time to devote to it himself.  I hope it can start moving again. Namecoin has so much potential...

As far as I know, Khal is still around but difficult to get hold of ... 

Namecoin has great potential but had a rocky start with the miners basically raping it in the early days before merged mining, left it hanging for months stuck on a too high difficulty for a short term gain (it actually makes a great case study for a potential bitcoin attack). Many early developers lost interest and moved back to bitcoin and surrounding ventures after the mining attack.

Vinced hasn't been seen since v. early days ... there is some suspicion he was satoshi also (the level of code changes needed, speed and accuracy with which it was produced, use of british english and his disappearance around same time all point towards that). The namecoin idea was partly to keep bitcoin blockchain free from data storage and exclusively for transactions by providing namecoin for data storage ... so nothing has changed, we are still arguing over keeping data storage off bitcoin blockchain but namecoin cannot get even one bitcoin dev interested ...

It is probably the best piece of coding of the alt-coins next to bitcoin but is becoming out-dated and there are some unresolved issues regarding appropriate levels for fees (yes that old chestnut again) which are more complex than bitcoin's issue with fees since name transactions are involved. Nothing insurmountable in my opinion. Namecoin DNS is only a tiny part of what namecoin is capable of ....

Yes, please we need a gavin for namecoin ... or at least a coordinated dev effort. Khal needs help or may even want to hand over the keys to the main github source and forum to allow some new blood in ...

what happend? no idea... please someone explain...

Man, i hope you have the knowledge and time to keep going.
We need the Gavin Andressen of namecoin, someone that can do proper bitcoin follow up,

and as the good guys here offering the bounty, they really need to setup a dev team and convince them that nmc
can be as valuable as ltc or more if the proper dev follow-up is mantained.

i'm sure some more people are holding huge stacks of nmc,
they should step-up, join together, make a foundation or something to manage the bounties and pay someone

i would love to help but i'm out off the loop, since i've work long time in IT admin.

I didn't think the merged mining issue through, you are correct. I was going for "no need to allow mining" but obviously full merged POW is needed to verify blocks, so that's moot.

So the only viable option is improve on the current 0.3.50 codebase, I guess. I would still think it possible to hook into the latest bitcoind to support NMC, but that's likely much less trivial than I assumed from the start.

How's this for a plan? I need the following RPC calls added:
- importprivkey
- dumpprivkey
- importaddress (from codeshark's PR, I can dig the number if needed)
- listunspent
- createrawtransaction
- decoderawtransaction
- getrawtransaction
- sendrawtransaction
- signrawtransaction
- signmessage
- verifymessage
- listaddressgroupings (I can live without this one, but it is useful)

I also need all the tx to be available for querying, not just those for wallet addresses (I think that's already the way it is).

The bitcoin source is really not architectured to support alts, and given that changes since 0.3 have made this more the case then it was even then I am pretty sure it never will be.     I personally would really like to see the major alts put some effort to bring something like the picocoin codebase into a usable form for this.  As it is built around a library it should prove more easy for the alts to share work and advance some things on their own rather then just somewhat blindly taking random patches from bitcoin on an uncoordinated basis.

It may be easier or at least quicker to add in the RPC calls you want.  That of course does not give you the tracking of the development, but I still think that will only last for a short term once again and a better long term solution is needed.  That said, I think most currently agree with you, as they see it easier to just keep mirroring bitcoin development.


That is simply not going to work, unless you mean a namecoin fork or alternative.  Namecoin needs merge mining to at least validate the blocks already made with it active, even if you turn it off in this new version.   Merged mining is a forking change.


I might be up for that, even if I do disagree with the approach.   I know there is some talk of doing this once leveldb is more stable for some of the other chains, and it would be easier to do both at once.

Hmm... I see that page is from Dec 2011.  I can say that that was not true at that time since I built two of the three clients  available from dot-bit at that time and my two got built from Vince's source at the time.  Of course it was never the head, but when he announced a tagged release.

At that time also, there was no official source.   Guess I will have to ask what is the right one to use then, I thought it would be the official source at this point now that they have one.