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by libcoin
Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support
Replies: 34
Views: 32212

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

OK. You convinced me. Unfortunately there was no other quick method to convince others since nobody is knowing your pseudonymous identity from the actual active Namecoin Forum. Of course I am not representing the Namecoin project but we have nobody who represents it. (it is the same like it is by a...
by libcoin
Tue Oct 15, 2013 3:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support
Replies: 34
Views: 32212

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

Of course anything can happen but I am still not convinced in this. May be he hacked somehow d/bitcoin. They are still some contradictions in his behavior. But if he can change d/wav then I must recognize there is really a bug. Well try a name_history on d/wav now ;) I could post the code here, but...
by libcoin
Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support
Replies: 34
Views: 32212

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

Wow ... I never imagined that such important checks could be missing, and never bothered to check (but actually I've so far not looked at any coin's client code base). But does that mean we could fix the rules and restart the history at block 139871? That's not too far in the past, is it? Or is thi...
by libcoin
Tue Oct 15, 2013 10:45 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Namecoin was stillborn, I had to switch off life-support
Replies: 34
Views: 32212

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

This is the postmortems and obituary over namecoin. In fact it never really existed, but by block: 139872 it became clear. However, if you haven' t noticed yet read on... Namecoin has always been my favorite alt-coin - it had a clear purpose, different from Bitcoin, offering a nice way to keep a de-...