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by gigabytecoin
Wed Feb 10, 2016 6:58 pm
Forum: Project direction
Topic: Hardfork 2016 Value Size Limit
Replies: 24
Views: 75058

Re: Hardfork 2016 Value Size Limit

Baby steps...

Why not increase the limit to just the originally proposed 1,000 bytes, essentially doubling the current size... and write up a document on how to easily increase it to 2,000 bytes in the future if required due to popular demand?
by gigabytecoin
Sat Sep 13, 2014 4:04 pm
Forum: Official Namecoin softwares
Topic: [ANN] Namecoin v0.3.76
Replies: 8
Views: 10543

Re: [ANN] Namecoin v0.3.76

@phelix, fair enough, but what would that really change when it comes to problematic squatters anyways? Changing the GUI would only stop the meek from squatting a few namespaces. The big boys could and would easily register thousands of namespaces wherever they choose programatically if they really ...
by gigabytecoin
Fri Sep 12, 2014 7:17 pm
Forum: Official Namecoin softwares
Topic: [ANN] Namecoin v0.3.76
Replies: 8
Views: 10543

Re: [ANN] Namecoin v0.3.76

Congratulations on another Namecoin release. I hate squatters as much as the next guy... but I have a problem with the following mindset of the dev team: (Squatters: leave the root namespace alone or we will change the UI such that names without namespace will use the id/ namespace :P). So basically...
by gigabytecoin
Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Official Facebook Page
Replies: 20
Views: 14026

Re: Official Facebook Page

I assume you're referring to "sudoquai's" https://www.facebook.com/Namecoin.org facebook page that he spams as often as possible via reddit and the trollbox? Yes, we definitely need a better/official namecoin facebook page that's filled with real information and not altcoin comics. I suggest you rea...
by gigabytecoin
Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:10 pm
Forum: Project direction
Topic: Round-Robin Balancing Implementation Question
Replies: 11
Views: 8012

Re: Round-Robin Balancing Implementation Question

Web servers are fairly dumb. They respond to http requests. That's about it. There shouldn't be any inherent problems in loading various parts of a single website from different web servers. If the two web servers have different domain names then you get into TLS problems. But as for downloading var...
by gigabytecoin
Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:04 am
Forum: Project direction
Topic: Transitioning the web to Namecoin by addressing squatters
Replies: 46
Views: 44721

Re: Transitioning the web to Namecoin by addressing squatter

This would break the censorship-resistance and security guarantees of Namecoin since the "owner" of ICANN domains can be maliciously altered. And how is this proof of ownership supposed to work after it's in the blockchain? Let's say I mine a block myself, and include a fraudulent .com domain. Will...
by gigabytecoin
Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:51 pm
Forum: Marketplace
Topic: Peerbet.org Introduces ROBO - Your Dice Auto-Roll Buddy!
Replies: 5
Views: 6584

Re: Peerbet.org Now Accepts Namecoin! Play Dice & Wheels!

I doubt many in the Namecoin development community are interested in gambling their Namecoins away but you never know.
by gigabytecoin
Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:50 pm
Forum: Project direction
Topic: Name Systems Discussion: 30C3 - 30th CCC Congress
Replies: 5
Views: 4410

Re: Name Systems Discussion: 30C3 - 30th CCC Congress

Wouldn't/shouldn't most people attending this conference already know about Namecoin?

Unless we had some new and interesting ideas to discuss, I don't know how interested they would be just to hear it exists.

Couldn't hurt to remind them all about us, though.
by gigabytecoin
Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Namecoins are destroyed... is this how it works?
Replies: 15
Views: 11145

Re: Namecoins are destroyed... is this how it works?

I think it would be a bad idea to refund domain fees. In that case domain squatting wouldn't be appropriately discouraged. My opinion is that the miner should get the domain fee when the domain expires . This is better than giving it to miners on registration, as that would lead to free registratio...
by gigabytecoin
Wed Nov 27, 2013 11:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Namecoins are destroyed... is this how it works?
Replies: 15
Views: 11145

Re: Namecoins are destroyed... is this how it works?

One of the ideas discussed for improved fee structure is to have the coins used to register a name be released after the name expires. If this is implemented, no additional coins would be lost. I think this idea is relatively popular (I definitely support it). I too would support this kind of funct...