Topic: [announce] Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin - page 96. (Read 596107 times)

Bitcoin started at 1, the minimum difficulty, and stayed that way for several months/years until enough people joined the network that blocks cleared more often than once every 10 minutes, prompting the first difficulty change.

What did bitcoin start at?

I believe it's always been permanently set to 512, and doesn't dynamically change as Bitcoin's does.

Also thanks grue for the binaries.  I finally got it working with my limited knowledge.

Can't believe diffuculty is already 512. It took Bitcoin almost two years to reach this.  

I guess I'll just have to buy them...

clarified, should have read the whole thread...

win32 binaries (32150)
http://min.us/mvtpJW
SHA-1: 1E24AE15200EBA151FAE1D8514027666D4A2135D

min.us doesn't like file names, it just eats it up   anyways, if it contains namecoind.exe, and a dll, it's the right file.
when you get a block, use "namecoin getinfo" to get the block count. note that number. when that number has increased by 100, your block will mature, and it will show up in your balance.

Some days ago I found a Block, this morning I found another one.
Still my balance did not change. How can I check if my block has "matured"?

How much blocks are produced per hour? Can I do some checks with the info out of the debug.log?

JackSparrow

First, PLEASE BACKUP YOUR WALLETS on a regular basis.  Also, experiment on test names, not valuable ones.

A new release is up on github.  This release includes:

* Name transfers can now be performed using name_update
* The first namecoin seed node has been added
* Addresses (getnewaddress) now start with the letter 'N'.  Old addresses starting with '1' will continue to work indefinitely.
* Version number bumped to 0.3.21.50
* Handling of names in wallet has been revamped
* Only one pending name operation at a time, per name
* name_clean and deletetransaction rpc calls, for those of you that created transactions that cannot be completed due to name clash or double spend

Earlier in this thread there were several posts with solutions for bridging Namecoin to DNS.  Thank you for making progress on this front.

I am not distributing binaries right now and cannot vouch for binaries I don't build myself.  You'll have to judge for yourself based on the reputation of the posters.

I just realised I had the -testnet switch on  *smacks palm on head*

so I canceled it and started it against without it.. but it's already saying:

04/05/2011 12:52:57, 0005f367, accepted

does namecoin recognise the testnet switch?

Grue:

OK I just left it running overnight and the GPU temp is fine as long as I leave the side of my case off.

This is what I am seeing:

03/05/2011 20:30:35, 005a2e48, accepted                    
03/05/2011 23:18:48, 000eaa01, accepted                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
04/05/2011 07:16:58, 00167707, accepted                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
04/05/2011 07:22:27, 00376793, accepted                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
04/05/2011 07:54:55, 00122d3a, accepted

So I assume this means my client says it has completed those blocks but is waiting for others to confirm it. I don't have port forwarding to open up more connections at the moment and have reservations about it. Is it possible the jail the daemon without any performance hit?

And that link with the binary didn't work for me.  OK I tried it again and it gives me ikRzdi.zip  that can't be right?

Anyway I have git cloned the source and will start installing the dependencies.

those "blocks" aren't necessarily yours. it's the block count of the entire network. If you did mine a block, it will take 100 confirmations (blocks appearing after it) for it to show up in your balance.

also:

Latest binaries (2011-05-03) last commit 13 hours ago
http://min.us/mveQeUf

My client says a couple of blocks have been accepted but it still says I have a zero balance.


{
    "version" : 32100,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 1434,
    "connections" : 8,
    "proxy" : "",
    "generate" : false,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "difficulty" : 512.00781274,
    "hashespersec" : 0,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1304239256,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

ok, thanks.  trying to mine some namecoins now.

7 connections is enough.

getinfo says this:


connections increased to 7. so this is how its supposed to look?

Open a new command line window (while the other is still running) and type
namecoind.exe getinfo

tried it on windows 7 64bit. gets to "bitcoin server starting" and stays there.

Are new Linux binaries going to be out soon?

The Dropbox link that I posted is legit, although somewhat outdated now.  I compiled it on Windows 7 with the code here: https://github.com/dmp1ce/namecoin/tree/win32  Let me know if it doesn't work for you.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2882613/Namecoin/namecoind.exe

Does it format your drive and steal your wallet.dat?

Just curious, because I'm no good at compiling so have to find trustworthy bins.