Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support

cassini

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Quote from: commandrix on February 26, 2016, 09:52:04 PM

How does a thread like this come back to life?

Because of that "Crypto-city" spam post above (the same useless message as in 20+ other altcoin-related threads).

Quote from: commandrix on February 26, 2016, 09:52:04 PM

Good to hear that they were able to fix whatever it was that was wrong with Namecoin that OP was talking about (gee, more than two years ago?).

Actually it needed a makeshift bug fix and a subsequent hard-fork in December 2013, and the problem was solved without any loss of data.
Meanwhile we've released a completely redesigned Namecoin Core client which we keep as close as possible to Bitcoin Core. It has no GUI, yet,
but the GUI version is near completion, see https://forum.namecoin.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2512

commandrix

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Good to hear that they were able to fix whatever it was that was wrong with Namecoin that OP was talking about (gee, more than two years ago?). How does a thread like this come back to life?

pip010

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Quote from: zimmah on March 25, 2014, 11:33:10 AM

I heard the ban of twitter in turkey can be solved by accessing it via namecoin, I never really looked into namecoin and i understand almost nothing of it. But wouldn't this be good news for namecoin?

the ban in twitter was a DNS blacklisting,, easily circumvented by changing your DNS settings to use google's open DNS: 8.8.8.8
but ja, in general if it were USA and not Turkey, they could have easily swiped the ICAAN records

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zimmah

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I heard the ban of twitter in turkey can be solved by accessing it via namecoin, I never really looked into namecoin and i understand almost nothing of it. But wouldn't this be good news for namecoin?

cyberhacker

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maybe now we are ready for nmc correction.

and we hope fontas will never put his dirty finger on nmc again.

runderwo

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NMC $15 today. Lol.

vane91

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fontas is a smart scammer, announces the pump, so people will dump trying to cash out btc, but he knows that:
it was an all time low after the bug,
new in kraken
cex.io now offers nmc trading, GHS, so arbitrage,
bter may start trading it, just be carefull, because the deposits are not being credited, so i wouldn't send any nmc yet.
it should keep a 0.003btc or 1$value min now depending on btc price.
Roll Eyes

snailbrain

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Quote from: Operatr on November 22, 2013, 03:00:01 AM

Quote from: No_2 on November 21, 2013, 08:08:10 PM

Any ideas what's caused the sudden namecoin price spike?

Classic Fontas pump and nothing more

https://twitter.com/fontase

hopefully you are just joking

solracx

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Quote from: No_2 on November 21, 2013, 08:08:10 PM

Any ideas what's caused the sudden namecoin price spike?

The reason is because it is 3rd most valuable coin the market.

Predicted this days ago: http://trollboxarchive.com/byid.php?id=22909914

Operatr

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Quote from: No_2 on November 21, 2013, 08:08:10 PM

Any ideas what's caused the sudden namecoin price spike?

Classic Fontas pump and nothing more

https://twitter.com/fontase

No_2

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BTC: the beginning of stake-based public resources

Any ideas what's caused the sudden namecoin price spike?

cyberhacker

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we know NMC will soon be recognized as real application in virtual world.

namecoin.info

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Out now: Namecoin-Qt & daemon with the name enforcing bug fixed.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3436752

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Quote from: Rassah on October 25, 2013, 02:22:12 PM

Quote from: ManicMeddler on October 25, 2013, 01:37:59 PM

So my 37 domains are useless? Worthless?

Wtf?

No, you just can't transfer them to anyone else until a patch is released.

ok thats not the end of the world, knowing my luck someone will want to buy them, between now and then

thx for the reply

Rassah

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Quote from: ManicMeddler on October 25, 2013, 01:37:59 PM

So my 37 domains are useless? Worthless?

Wtf?

No, you just can't transfer them to anyone else until a patch is released.

ManicMeddler

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So my 37 domains are useless? Worthless?

Wtf?

ebildude123

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Well, at least were getting that fix.
It also demonstrates merge mining fairly well..

jonytk

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so that's why nmc crashed. ask to simplyfun and other btc-e owners to donate some bucks, i bet they make toons on nmc transfer fees at btc-e...

domob

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Quote from: agent13 on October 21, 2013, 03:38:21 AM

Quote from: JoelKatz on October 16, 2013, 01:20:55 AM

Quote from: Paladin69 on October 16, 2013, 12:30:57 AM

So it is dead or can it be salvaged? Sorry, not technical here.

I think it can be salvaged. A particular block, well in the future, will have to be chosen. After that block, every name will have to be recomputed to determine its correct ownership under the new, correct, rules. At that time, all names will revert to their correct owners, and from then on, the exploit will be impossible. It's just going to take the Namecoin community to come together, agree on the new rules and block number, get the work done on time, and so on.

Say I have some .bit registrations. Currently they could be stolen from me? Under above scenario, stolen registrations might be returned to me? - roll back name updates to the block date of the vulnerability announcement? (or thereabouts)

Yes, more or less like that. The bug is that name_update operations are not checked and thus it is (with the old code) possible that someone updates a name to himself, and those transactions get relayed and even mined. However, it is not possible to hide the fact that this is an "invalid" operation. Thus it is easy, after the problem is fixed and the fix distributed, to decide which transactions should not be allowed and discard them. This is what will be done, so that you are right that if you (rightfully) own a name and it gets stolen, it will be returned to you - in the view of everyone who uses the updated client. But this includes fortunately no complete roll-back of all name transactions, since that is not necessary because it is possible to identify exactly the illicit ones. Only those will be reversed.

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Quote from: JoelKatz on October 16, 2013, 01:20:55 AM

Quote from: Paladin69 on October 16, 2013, 12:30:57 AM

So it is dead or can it be salvaged? Sorry, not technical here.

I think it can be salvaged. A particular block, well in the future, will have to be chosen. After that block, every name will have to be recomputed to determine its correct ownership under the new, correct, rules. At that time, all names will revert to their correct owners, and from then on, the exploit will be impossible. It's just going to take the Namecoin community to come together, agree on the new rules and block number, get the work done on time, and so on.

Say I have some .bit registrations. Currently they could be stolen from me? Under above scenario, stolen registrations might be returned to me? - roll back name updates to the block date of the vulnerability announcement? (or thereabouts)

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