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Having read this article: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fraudulent-certificate-triggers-blocking-from-software-companies-1333088.html i'm asking myself if it would be possible (and desirable) to put an SSL certificate for a domain into the blockchain as well. Of course you'd need to have a...

The planned roll-out of merged mining is great. But it's not enough. Adoption of merged mining is uncertain. The *rate* of pools adopting merged mining is uncertain. It could be a long while after the roll-out before enough pools get on board to have any effect on the namecoin network at all. Time ...

For those interested in testing I branched vinced's repo and changed merged mining block number to 19200: https://github.com/nodemaster/namecoin Perhaps someone with a good reputation is able to build binaries and sign them? Thank you. I've announced the release by updating the first post of this t...

I think this is a very good idea. The Tor project could be a pretty good way to get early adopters of dot-bit. They might be interested in merging this effort into their offering.

I currently plan to push for merged mining to launch in the next four weeks.

I have similar impressions. Are we stuck really? why? If yes, then what to do to get un-stuck? I think that it works - it was tested - and it should go to production. I agree. I don't really see any showstoppers. I suggest we move forward. See: https://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1716#p1716

It looks like there are no showstoppers being raised, so I would like to propose block 19200 for launch. At the current rate, this will be three weeks to a month from now.

See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alternative_Chains#Scaling_up . Ok, having read this page I have a lot more (hopefully constructive) criticism: 1. Bitcoin already has its own serialization format. Protobuf adds yet another dependency, and breaks compatibility regularly. 2. Putting every transaction ...

vinced if the proxy returns true how does pushpool or poolserverj find out which chain it's valid for? Are they expected to internally verify against difficulties for each chain or can they then submit directly to each daemon to get a confirmed result? The proxy outputs to stdout a record with a 0 ...

First update to support "merged mining" on testnet : => http://testnet.explorer.dot-bit.org/ It would be useful if the namecoin block explorer showed the block nVersion. This would allow us to see what % of the mining power is using the merged mining patches. Added on the testnet explorer. I think ...