Namecoin Forum

classic or pulsar.

Welcome its nice to see new members.

I think if genjx is continuing to update libbitcoin then thats the parth to go, if not, rebase with bitcoin.

Sorry about the link but I feel it saves a copy paste or my interpreting it.

http://superuser.com/questions/346856/w ... -encrypted

Could namecoin, if used to its full capcity provide infrastructure to actually allow full world encryption?

I think a good start is to mirror every site about BTC with a .bit variant and make sure its obvious it has two domains.

Its slightly misleading as it IS a domain naming system although they are not backed by domains in the sense that people may think.

I was thinking, a small script to run a standing order type idea would not be difficult. How about a site offering DNS owners to point to .bit and in return they can get namecoins via a sort of pledge system So for instance I may pledge 5NC a month, these 5 coins get sent to an account and distrbute...

Secondly, what happens if this became valuable and "someone" purchased the .bit extension from ICANN. What would this mean exactly?

After discussiong namecoin with some fellow colleagues the response i got when I mentioned the .bit extension was somewhat negative. Whats the situation about adapting other, even custom, extensions? I assume this would not be THAT difficult but but aslong it isnt ICANN registered we could use it th...

I think the main issue with this was the timeframe in which it was expected. To get the entire network to update is not an easy task (although the major pools doing this is a significant step)