[announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 84.

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Quote from: drrussellshane on July 06, 2011, 04:41:25 PM

Thanks sadpandatech!

welcome.

also, I know its probably in the setup guide but if you type in namecoind help it will list all the commands.

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Thanks sadpandatech!

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Quote from: drrussellshane on July 06, 2011, 04:17:42 PM

Quote from: MaGNeT on July 06, 2011, 03:57:33 PM

Quote from: drrussellshane on July 06, 2011, 03:35:13 PM

Quote from: MaGNeT on July 06, 2011, 03:03:25 PM

After some trouble setting up, the namecoin client is now downloading blocks and the Phoenix miner is setup to start as soon as all blocks are downloaded.
I understand why it's not popular... The client looks like it's made in 1983... Tongue

I'll mine some Namecoins on one of my rigs to speed things up a bit Wink

Can't let all of you wait till august until the difficulty drops...

are you referring to a GUI client for namecoin?

If so, where can I find such a thing?

No, I didn't find a GUI client...
I only found this one:

http://dot-bit.org/InstallAndConfigureNamecoin

And it works...

ok. that's what I'm working with, but I don't see anything about downloading blocks.

Where can I find the commands for it?

I know "getnewaddress", but what are the rest?

If you are running the namecoind it will get the blocks. You can see what the current block is with a command for it specificly. I like to use getinfo. Type it in the same place you would getnewaddress. Getinfo shows the current block you are up to, balance, and a few other things.

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Quote from: MaGNeT on July 06, 2011, 03:57:33 PM

Quote from: drrussellshane on July 06, 2011, 03:35:13 PM

Quote from: MaGNeT on July 06, 2011, 03:03:25 PM

After some trouble setting up, the namecoin client is now downloading blocks and the Phoenix miner is setup to start as soon as all blocks are downloaded.
I understand why it's not popular... The client looks like it's made in 1983... Tongue

I'll mine some Namecoins on one of my rigs to speed things up a bit Wink

Can't let all of you wait till august until the difficulty drops...

are you referring to a GUI client for namecoin?

If so, where can I find such a thing?

No, I didn't find a GUI client...
I only found this one:

http://dot-bit.org/InstallAndConfigureNamecoin

And it works...

ok. that's what I'm working with, but I don't see anything about downloading blocks.

Where can I find the commands for it?

I know "getnewaddress", but what are the rest?

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Quote from: drrussellshane on July 06, 2011, 03:35:13 PM

Quote from: MaGNeT on July 06, 2011, 03:03:25 PM

After some trouble setting up, the namecoin client is now downloading blocks and the Phoenix miner is setup to start as soon as all blocks are downloaded.
I understand why it's not popular... The client looks like it's made in 1983... Tongue

I'll mine some Namecoins on one of my rigs to speed things up a bit Wink

Can't let all of you wait till august until the difficulty drops...

are you referring to a GUI client for namecoin?

If so, where can I find such a thing?

No, I didn't find a GUI client...
I only found this one:

http://dot-bit.org/InstallAndConfigureNamecoin

And it works...

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Quote from: MaGNeT on July 06, 2011, 03:32:57 PM

Quote from: Man From The Future on July 06, 2011, 03:29:55 PM

Quote from: MaGNeT on July 06, 2011, 03:03:25 PM

After some trouble setting up, the namecoin client is now downloading blocks and the Phoenix miner is setup to start as soon as all blocks are downloaded.
I understand why it's not popular... The client looks like it's made in 1983... Tongue

I'll mine some Namecoins on one of my rigs to speed things up a bit Wink

Can't let all of you wait till august until the difficulty drops...

Difficulty should drop in ~8 days, to ~22,000

Unless more people come in seeing it about to drop causing it not to drop Grin

Well, as you told me before: you are from the future so you should know...

I don't want to cause any kind of strange feedback loop destroying the universe, now, do I? Wink

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Quote from: MaGNeT on July 06, 2011, 03:03:25 PM

After some trouble setting up, the namecoin client is now downloading blocks and the Phoenix miner is setup to start as soon as all blocks are downloaded.
I understand why it's not popular... The client looks like it's made in 1983... Tongue

I'll mine some Namecoins on one of my rigs to speed things up a bit Wink

Can't let all of you wait till august until the difficulty drops...

are you referring to a GUI client for namecoin?

If so, where can I find such a thing?

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Quote from: Man From The Future on July 06, 2011, 03:29:55 PM

Quote from: MaGNeT on July 06, 2011, 03:03:25 PM

After some trouble setting up, the namecoin client is now downloading blocks and the Phoenix miner is setup to start as soon as all blocks are downloaded.
I understand why it's not popular... The client looks like it's made in 1983... Tongue

I'll mine some Namecoins on one of my rigs to speed things up a bit Wink

Can't let all of you wait till august until the difficulty drops...

Difficulty should drop in ~8 days, to ~22,000

Unless more people come in seeing it about to drop causing it not to drop Grin

Well, as you told me before: you are from the future so you should know...

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Quote from: MaGNeT on July 06, 2011, 03:03:25 PM

After some trouble setting up, the namecoin client is now downloading blocks and the Phoenix miner is setup to start as soon as all blocks are downloaded.
I understand why it's not popular... The client looks like it's made in 1983... Tongue

I'll mine some Namecoins on one of my rigs to speed things up a bit Wink

Can't let all of you wait till august until the difficulty drops...

Difficulty should drop in ~8 days, to ~22,000

Unless more people come in seeing it about to drop causing it not to drop Grin

MaGNeT

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After some trouble setting up, the namecoin client is now downloading blocks and the Phoenix miner is setup to start as soon as all blocks are downloaded.
I understand why it's not popular... The client looks like it's made in 1983... Tongue

I'll mine some Namecoins on one of my rigs to speed things up a bit Wink

Can't let all of you wait till august until the difficulty drops...

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Quote from: lebish on June 30, 2011, 06:50:03 PM

db_cxx.h is included with the berkeleydb dev tools. Just install version 4.6-4.8 and update your include paths and There's a package that includes this that you can install with apt-get, I just forget the name off the top of my head.

See the build-unix.txt file in the source for what the dependencies are for Ubuntu,

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Quote from: smoothie on June 29, 2011, 07:11:58 PM

Has any of you been able to successfully compile namecoind on ubuntu/linux? I got the code off of bluishcoder.com's website.

This is what I get when running the following command:

make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=

Code:

root@enemsi:~/namecoin# make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=
g++ -c -O2 -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat -g -D__WXDEBUG__ -DNOPCH -DFOURWAYSSE2 -DUSE_SSL -o obj/nogui/util.o util.cpp
In file included from util.cpp:5:0:
headers.h:43:20: fatal error: db_cxx.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [obj/nogui/util.o] Error 1

What is db_cxx.h and where do I get it? I tried looking around and can't seem to find it. Any help is appreciated!

db_cxx.h is included with the berkeleydb dev tools. Just install version 4.6-4.8 and update your include paths and There's a package that includes this that you can install with apt-get, I just forget the name off the top of my head.

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Quote from: shivansps on June 29, 2011, 05:29:11 PM

If you want to crush a crypto currency like this and you have lot of hasing power, i think the best plan is to increase the hashing power up gradually, them retire. Imagine what could happen to Bitcoins if the hasing power goes back to 2 thash/s now...

So what? Is bitcoin only about a regular difficulty increase? What does it matter, why should it crush a whole currency? There are millions of bitcoins in the market and loads of namecoins. Trade with bitcoins is not affected nor are the funcions of namecoin. You just had to wait a bit longer for transactions beeing confirmed, thats all. Or do I miss something?

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Quote from: shivansps on June 29, 2011, 05:29:11 PM

I wonder if Namecoins has just uncover a flaw in the Bitcoin system.

Just take a look at what happen with Namecoins now, someone just brought up some serious hash power, taking the dificulty from 3500 all the way up to 55k, then retired back to Bitcoins (i guess).
Now Namecoins are on a depresion, pleople stoping mining them, next dificulty is stimated at 16k, but at this rate it will not happen until 07/08/2011.

If you want to crush a crypto currency like this and you have lot of hasing power, i think the best plan is to increase the hashing power up gradually, them retire. Imagine what could happen to Bitcoins if the hasing power goes back to 2 thash/s now...

I suspect that because bitcoin was the first, the hardware and software to mine with GPUs was not available. Since when namecoin came online everything was in place, so I see no flaw here. The network is adjusting for the huge increase in mining that happened a few weeks ago with namecoins. So thus, the difficulty adjusting back down is just a result of it not being worth mining it at the current time. I suspect when bitcoin's next difficulty surpasses 1,800,000 and namecoin readjusts downward, you will see a rush into namecoin mining once again.

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Has any of you been able to successfully compile namecoind on ubuntu/linux? I got the code off of bluishcoder.com's website.

This is what I get when running the following command:

make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=

Code:

root@enemsi:~/namecoin# make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=
g++ -c -O2 -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat -g -D__WXDEBUG__ -DNOPCH -DFOURWAYSSE2 -DUSE_SSL -o obj/nogui/util.o util.cpp
In file included from util.cpp:5:0:
headers.h:43:20: fatal error: db_cxx.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [obj/nogui/util.o] Error 1

What is db_cxx.h and where do I get it? I tried looking around and can't seem to find it. Any help is appreciated!

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Quote from: shivansps on June 29, 2011, 05:29:11 PM

I wonder if Namecoins has just uncover a flaw in the Bitcoin system.

Just take a look at what happen with Namecoins now, someone just brought up some serious hash power, taking the dificulty from 3500 all the way up to 55k, then retired back to Bitcoins (i guess).
Now Namecoins are on a depresion, pleople stoping mining them, next dificulty is stimated at 16k, but at this rate it will not happen until 07/08/2011.

If you want to crush a crypto currency like this and you have lot of hasing power, i think the best plan is to increase the hashing power up gradually, them retire. Imagine what could happen to Bitcoins if the hasing power goes back to 2 thash/s now...

Actually, a load of peopel moved over because it was more profitable to mine NMC and exchange for BTC at bitparking than to mine BTC! Of course, this didn't last, as you can see...

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I wonder if Namecoins has just uncover a flaw in the Bitcoin system.

Just take a look at what happen with Namecoins now, someone just brought up some serious hash power, taking the dificulty from 3500 all the way up to 55k, then retired back to Bitcoins (i guess).
Now Namecoins are on a depresion, pleople stoping mining them, next dificulty is stimated at 16k, but at this rate it will not happen until 07/08/2011.

If you want to crush a crypto currency like this and you have lot of hasing power, i think the best plan is to increase the hashing power up gradually, them retire. Imagine what could happen to Bitcoins if the hasing power goes back to 2 thash/s now...

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Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on June 29, 2011, 03:22:36 AM

Hmmm ... looks like you maybe able to do TLS using a ECDH_ECDSA (or ECDHE_ECDSA) scheme with the namecoin secp256k1 private key ...
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc4492.html
ironically ".... The NamedCurve name space is maintained by IANA...." (secp256k1 is a "NamedCurve", amongst many others)

This is how I would of assumed SSL would work with the new TLD...

Well as you do know the wallet is a private key like an SSL cert and I don't know how it stores who has what domain but I would assume it based on a public key created by your wallet. Naturally you would NOT want use your wallet as SSL Cert, thus why not have a encrypted private key stored with your domain name that is your certificate. If someone steels that private key it's not big deal you create an new one and store it in the block chain using your wallet key.

That just seemed logical to me.

I just started reading about namecoin last night so I may be wrong about how it works.

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Quote from: DavinciJ15 on June 28, 2011, 11:06:22 PM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on June 24, 2011, 04:36:04 PM

Quote from: freeloader247 on June 24, 2011, 04:15:01 PM

While were in development stage lets solve some more problems, like the removal of ssl certificate authority! How about when you register a domain you get a private and a public key for it, then when you go to a website you browser asks namecoin for the public key for that domain, and then a secure connection is established. This system can be implemented into the existing ssl standard. What do you guys think?

Very interesting idea ... I'm listening. Sounds almost too simple (i.e.too good to be true) could be brilliant. Flesh it out some more.

Would greatly increase potential benefits of namecoins if we could do away with those lecherous certificate "authorities

I just stumbled on to namecoin and I am shocked it does not work this way already! You own the domain via private key, logic would dictate you would not need ssl certs.

Hmmm ... looks like you maybe able to do TLS using a ECDH_ECDSA (or ECDHE_ECDSA) scheme with the namecoin secp256k1 private key ...
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc4492.html
ironically ".... The NamedCurve name space is maintained by IANA...." (secp256k1 is a "NamedCurve", amongst many others)

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Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on June 24, 2011, 04:36:04 PM

Quote from: freeloader247 on June 24, 2011, 04:15:01 PM

While were in development stage lets solve some more problems, like the removal of ssl certificate authority! How about when you register a domain you get a private and a public key for it, then when you go to a website you browser asks namecoin for the public key for that domain, and then a secure connection is established. This system can be implemented into the existing ssl standard. What do you guys think?

Very interesting idea ... I'm listening. Sounds almost too simple (i.e.too good to be true) could be brilliant. Flesh it out some more.

Would greatly increase potential benefits of namecoins if we could do away with those lecherous certificate "authorities

I just stumbled on to namecoin and I am shocked it does not work this way already! You own the domain via private key, logic would dictate you would not need ssl certs.

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