Namecoin Forum

I would like to propose a simplification of the fee structure. Note that I'm talking about ordinary transaction fees here, not costs of names. (Only as much as transaction fees are part of the name cost.) In particular, a big difference between Namecoin and Bitcoin is that Namecoin has a "special r...

So, this has been talked about a lot on IRC, but I figure it's good to gather all in one place: Encryption of name/value data is useful for preventing automated scraping of data which users may not want to be entirely public. For example, I might not want my e-mail address or phone number to be ava...

1. Hardwarewallet https://hardwarewallet.com/ Customization Bitcoin based crypto currencies are supported by default - just specify your target mainnet or testnet version when setting up HW-1, and addresses will be generated and checked against those domains. Different form factors and graphical per...

Hmmm. It's an interesting logical construction but I am not sure if I understood what practical use could it have. It is no question that the actual short name expiration is very nerving but why to complicate and deposit the renewal fee to a registrar (even if it is decentralized) if it could be eas...

I see there is an application with Onename ID integrated:
https://www.bitcoinauthenticator.org/
Are there any other applications like this.

Filecoin http://filecoin.org/ Filecoin is a storage-based cryptocurrency. Rather than mining with computing power, miners provide a data storage service to other users. Filecoin is based on a Bitcoin-like blockchain to keep track of the currency and to index the files being stored by users, as well ...

There is something in Javascript.
https://djswallet.com/wallet.php
JayCoin was so kind and implemented Namecoin support also for his BIP32 Based JavaScript Wallet.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=758247

http://emercoin.com Maybe we can learn something from them, too. :mrgreen: We have already a couple of concurrents. Some of them are already sunken on the marketcap list. I thought from datacoin will be something but they are on the 211. position now with $ 26,642 market volume. By their developmen...

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/zf7blb/the_future_of 'The Future of Virtual Currencies - 2014' - 60p PDF ebook for 1400 $. From the content: .... A Comparison of Major Alternative Currency Technologies - Bitcoin - Litecoin - Ripple - Peercoin - Dogecoin - Namecoin - Darkcoin .... I am as...

A multi-coin client would have to be careful to avoid the user accidentally sending 100 BTC instead of 100 NMC, etc. There is some discussion on GitHub about Armory doing this, I think, but I don't think the Armory developers are particularly interested in it (or rather, they have higher priorities...