[announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 79.

lunarboy

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Think Khal is your man.

Quote from: khal on April 12, 2013, 03:14:57 PM

I'm planning on spending some time on namecoin again. The price may fluctuate a bit :p

He's still working on the namecoin project, but appears to be quite busy. i'm willing to donate a few coins, perhaps if there is enough of us we could get some development. Huh

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Quote from: nelisky on April 17, 2013, 09:16:56 AM

Is there anyone that can provide me with a quick tl;dr of the differences between bitcoin and namecoin in terms of communication protocol between peers and wallet format?

I'm circling back on my interest in Namecoin and hitting this roadblock as well. I'm on a Mac, and failed to get the v3.50 version to compile, and the latest compiled binary I could find was too old to be accepted into the current P2P network. The wiki does somewhat document the CLI/RPC commands, but looks to be completely silent on the actual P2P/TCP protocol (effectively, what changed between this documentation of Bitcoin's Protocol, and Namecoin's implementation). If that could somehow be documented, this project could be revived in other client implementations, even if the changes can't easily be rebased onto Bitcoin's latest source.

As some of the recent comments on the wiki indicate, because this alt-coin only has a command-line daemon, and no GUI, and no web-based wallet systems, it's one of the harder alt-chains to just pick up and start using.

I've gone through and created some diffs of Namecoin's source compared to Bitcoin's source at various points, and will try and see if I can muddle through them to figure out some decent documentation on the P2P protocol. If anyone else wants to take a peek as well:

Namecoin 0.3.21 changes against Bitcoin 0.1.5: This is from Vinced's repository, and appears to be the first "released" version; the one that is timed about the same time as the announcement that started this thread, compared to the version of Bitcoin it was originally forked from. I use this one as the base since presumably by the time vinced was comfortable to release it, the various protocols and standards were fully fleshed-out. Notably, this is the largest Diff of the set, at 32.1K lines long (some coding efficiencies between 0.3.21 and 0.3.51 cleaned up 10K lines of code?).
Namecoin 0.3.51 changes against Bitcoin 0.1.5: This is the current version of Namecoin, from the main "namecoin" github repo, compared to the version of Bitcoin it was originally forked from. 22.2K lines long.
Namecoin 0.3.51 changes against Bitcoin 0.8.1: This is the current version of Namecoin, compared to the current version of Bitcoin. 25.6K lines long

nelisky

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I am not being able to find time to do this, and I could really use it.

Anybody wants to join in a bounty? I would say that bounty could be collected for an updated namecoin client based on the latest bitcoin code.

I pledge 1000 NMC to that, if it can be done within the next 2 weeks (should be a "simple" job, and I can provide a diff from namecoin to the bitcoin version it is based upon, as per vinced's repository)

nelisky

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I have started doing it, but haven't been able to dedicate enough time. Basically need to debug why I get no responses from the seed nodes at this point. Is there anyone that can provide me with a quick tl;dr of the differences between bitcoin and namecoin in terms of communication protocol between peers and wallet format?

khal

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Quote from: virtualmaster on April 16, 2013, 03:26:36 PM

I think that is a good idea. The newest client would have already the wallet password protection and the other features and to register .bit domains could be used the old wallet.
Many people anyway are only trading with namecoins.
Namecoin is great.

I think too, and it is on the todo list since a long time.
But nobody has worked on it yet.
Any coder available ? :p

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I think that is a good idea. The newest client would have already the wallet password protection and the other features and to register .bit domains could be used the old wallet.
Many people anyway are only trading with namecoins.
Namecoin is great.

nelisky

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What would rebasing namecoin daemon onto the latest bitcoin encompass? I could really use some of the updated RPC calls, and it feels like it would be very beneficial for everyone to be able to follow bitcoin development closely.

I tried a simple half baked hackish thing with getting the ports changed, the genesis block and the address version to what namecoin has over bitcoin's git head, but I can't get responses from peers (yes, I added namecoin ones using addnode) so I'm assuming there are more changes to the communication protocol.

And would it be possible to do this in two steps? First without dealing with namecoin specific features but only wallet and communications, and adding the NS stuff later on?

Finally... time for a bounty?

khal

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http://register.dot-bit.org/ has been fixed, you can now register again :p

BitCoinNutJob

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i like namecoin

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dotbit.me

Quote from: sv4ol84a6v79a46ilby on April 13, 2013, 08:15:54 AM

Hi, I have a problem. I tried to follow directions at http://dot-bit.org/HowToRegisterAndConfigureBitDomains so i can pre-order my domain name for namecoins. However, here is what happens when i try to preorder a name:

If you do not have any namecoins you can use a webservice I recently created called dotbit.me. The process of registering a domain name is much simplified and you can pay with bitcoins if you wish. One you have a domain name, you can transfer it out to your own namecoin address for free.

Regards,
Tagide

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You need to have some namecoins in your wallet otherwise you cannot pay the fees.
It is less then 1 namecoin to reserve a .bit domain for one year.

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Hi, I have a problem. I tried to follow directions at http://dot-bit.org/HowToRegisterAndConfigureBitDomains so i can pre-order my domain name for namecoins. However, here is what happens when i try to preorder a name:

Code:

C:\namecoind>namecoind name_new d/THENAMEIWANT

Quote

error: {"code":-4,"message":"Error: This transaction requires a transaction fee
of at least 0.00 because of its amount, complexity, or use of recently received
funds "}

And by the way I checked and the domain name that I want is free.

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Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on February 19, 2013, 05:26:18 AM

Quote from: phelix on February 19, 2013, 04:21:07 AM

message encryption using bitcoin/namecoin keys is at reach: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/encryptdecrypt-arbitrary-text-using-bitcoin-keys-145098

Only key export is missing in namecoin.

You might be able to use pywallet for key export/import?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pywallet-22-manage-your-wallet-update-required-34028

I think pywallet can not work on wallets in use. Otherwise it would be enough to hack something together.

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Eadem mutata resurgo

Quote from: phelix on February 19, 2013, 04:21:07 AM

message encryption using bitcoin/namecoin keys is at reach: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/encryptdecrypt-arbitrary-text-using-bitcoin-keys-145098

Only key export is missing in namecoin.

You might be able to use pywallet for key export/import?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pywallet-22-manage-your-wallet-update-required-34028

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message encryption using bitcoin/namecoin keys is at reach: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/encryptdecrypt-arbitrary-text-using-bitcoin-keys-145098

Only key export is missing in namecoin.

phelix

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Quote from: khal on February 13, 2013, 07:31:56 PM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on February 13, 2013, 05:20:51 PM

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on February 13, 2013, 05:11:15 PM

Hi guys. I have been interested in Namecoin for quite some time, but I'm not sure of exactly who are the relative representatives (assuming Coblee would be for Litecoin, Gavin would be for Bitcoin, etc).

Who would I contact about the actual domain namecoin.info for example or a major security flaw or anything like that?

khalahan is now the lead dev., that said he can be troublesome to get hold of ... try here http://dot-bit.org/IRC_Channels or here also http://dot-bit.org/forum/index.php

Hi,
you can contact me at khal at dot-bit . org

khal gave me access to namecoin.info, so you can contact me about that, too.

btw: the domain namecoin.com is up for sale: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wts-namecoincom-domain-name-142222

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Quote from: Spekulatius on February 13, 2013, 07:48:32 PM

Whats currently being engineered in the namecoin parallel universe?

pure awesomeness ... of course Wink

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Whats currently being engineered in the namecoin parallel universe?

khal

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Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on February 13, 2013, 05:20:51 PM

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on February 13, 2013, 05:11:15 PM

Hi guys. I have been interested in Namecoin for quite some time, but I'm not sure of exactly who are the relative representatives (assuming Coblee would be for Litecoin, Gavin would be for Bitcoin, etc).

Who would I contact about the actual domain namecoin.info for example or a major security flaw or anything like that?

khalahan is now the lead dev., that said he can be troublesome to get hold of ... try here http://dot-bit.org/IRC_Channels or here also http://dot-bit.org/forum/index.php

Hi,
you can contact me at khal at dot-bit . org

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Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on February 13, 2013, 05:11:15 PM

Hi guys. I have been interested in Namecoin for quite some time, but I'm not sure of exactly who are the relative representatives (assuming Coblee would be for Litecoin, Gavin would be for Bitcoin, etc).

Who would I contact about the actual domain namecoin.info for example or a major security flaw or anything like that?

khalahan is now the lead dev., that said he can be troublesome to get hold of ... try here http://dot-bit.org/IRC_Channels or here also http://dot-bit.org/forum/index.php

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