Namecoin Forum

An investor asked Derrick and I to look at this. Our understanding is that it's a new coin, not using Namecoin. An issue with truly groking it is, while there is some code available, there's too much to easily vet. What they're really lacking, or were when we were looking at it, is a clear short whi...

April 18th is three years, right?

MWD

How would one get one of these addresses? Will the final public faucet require them? Will there be an explanation of how to get them? As it stands now, random users would not be able to use the faucet. You would need to set testnet=1 in your namecoin.conf but if you don't know what testnet is then ...

Testnet faucet here: http://testap.pw You can use that server as a testnet (or mainnet) node too. I entered a valid Namecoin address into it, hit the button, and got the error message "Please match the requested format." Tried it again with a different valid NMC address, got the same error. You nee...

Or did a format change that needs to be adjusted on our ends for links we post? This link used to work to show transactions on this address (or with any address, if you replace the end with the NMC address). This format no longer works. http://explorer.namecoin.info/a/NBfHahLo2RdAXeM3hxrSs5rQoqqiaJ9...

A functioning test-net and a faucet is **vital** to Namecoin development, .... Agreed. To this end, rather than wait for one, I've been my own faucet for the past four months. I've given out about 30 NMC total to about 100 people, one on one, out of my own pocket. Also gave a lot of them tech suppo...

John Kenney wrote:Testnet faucet here: http://testap.pw

You can use that server as a testnet (or mainnet) node too.

I entered a valid Namecoin address into it, hit the button, and got the error message "Please match the requested format." Tried it again with a different valid NMC address, got the same error.

Business Insider Magazine mentions NMC two days ago, price up 25% today http://www.businessinsider.com/fred-wilson-interview-2014-4 I can't prove that's connected, but I'd bet BTC to Dogecoin that it its. Mention was by Fred Wilson, heavy hitter venture capitalist guru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

site beta looks really good.


Also, I agree with this. The video is coming along, saw a better draft today:

kurt wrote:looks great plus when you add that great intro video it will seal it

great looking site !