What do you guys think will provide the most promising speculation opportunities in this arena?
What has the best potential and when will we see the first major movements?
I'd say namecoin of course because it has the most potential and is really different from bitcoin with additional features.
It does. But tatsuchan mentioned before, that it faces some serious problems:
Namecoin is one of those ideas that are great, but fail. I REALLY want to see a different domain structure, but the internet is commercialized now. I'm skeptical that this will work for most commercial sites. Most people don't want a wikileaks. They want a buy-my-shit-cheap.com website. It has to attract visitors, has to answer to local laws, has to keep track of sales and user info in order to sell you more cheap shit, and most importantly, it is often set up my some cookie cutter program for some middle-aged guy trying to make a dollar on that newfangled internet thing. How are they going to know what namecoin and .bit is when most of us barely understand it? The only reason anyone cares about namecoin at this point is because at it's heart it is a good idea, but really, you get it free while bitcoin mining.
I really dont understand yet the scope of namecoins feautures and mechanics that seperate it from bitcoin. May someone with a better understanding please give a bit of an explanation?
@ tatsuchan: Could you please explain a little bit more, why namecoin may fail in the longrun and how big those problems you see may be(come)? Why is namecoin in your oppinion inferior to the established domain system and cannot its "impossible-to-close-down" nature make up for any monetary expenses?
with the next namecoin based project the price might jump.
What could such projects be? Any in the pipeline? nameterrific.com?
I'm not a developer, I'm a graphic artist. I understand some technologies are more open/free/possibly better. I also recognize that the web is a popularity contest. It takes a long time, lots of trust, TONS of luck, and deep investing pockets to shove crap down people's throats. There is a law of seven in the marketing world. People usually don't care about your product/business until they see it in seven different places. Then it is "trusted" and of interest.
Maybe namecoin might get to this point. Realistically, smart phones and mothersites (Facebook/youtube) will hold all the cards for future web development. Where did you even hear about bitcoin in the first place? MySpace, 4chan, digg, redd.it?
