Namecoin Forum

Other ideas for the brainstorming: - DDNS (Decentralized DNS)? - bDNS - bitDNS I think the "decentralized" part is very important, because it's what people care about. Not so many people it's based on Bitcoin, and it's not the point. The actual point is that it's really decentralized, which is much ...

The suffix can be very useful in: - most people will choose to visit officesupplies.com over officesupplies.biz mickey mouse = .biz .info average = .net good quality = .com .co.uk ... which is why I'm pointing out that it's a cultural habit. We might want to continue with this "tagging system", but...

It's very clear that we'll need the .bit suffix quite often, because of certain assumptions in software. Whether or not, when and when not, is not the point. Just think of the http:// prefix in URLs: sometimes we include it, sometimes not. Whether we do or don't do it comes out naturally, and it's n...

We do not need to adopt XNC or XBC for common use. We can totally choose BTC, NMC, NC, even BTX, NCX or whatever looks nice. Now, what will happen when the ISO decides/agrees to include Namecoin and/or Bitcoin in the officially recognized currency codes? There's absolutely no way they'll write in BT...

We're thinking in a biased way here, because of tens of years of DNS, centralized training. What if the traditional web didn't have any TLDs? For example, instead of connecting to "mtgox.com", we would simply use "mtgox". It would have been easier for everyone, but centralization would have been the...

An uppercase, 3-letter currency code is actually an ISO-4217 code (e.g. EUR, USD, etc.), so if we're going to pick a code we'd be better off following that standard's conventions . So I would say XNC is the appropriate name (and bitcoin should use XBC, btw, or will anyway whenever ISO standardizes i...

With a given difficulty level and hashrate, how can I estimate how long I will need to generate one block?