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Namecoin: is there any rationale behind the (apparently foolish) choice of having the domains cost an irrelevant price?
When I first heard of namecoin an address costed 50 NMC, now they are priced 0.01 NMC.
This means they are as much as free, and the only thing preventing someone from just brute-force registering tons of them is... that it is pointless to do so,…
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Are the capabilities of Namecoin a strict superset of Bitcoin?
I have read that "while Bitcoin is a currency, Namecoin is not".
Isn't the capabilities offered by Namecoin a superset of Bitcoin's capabilities? If everyone in the world agreed to jointly migrate all Bitcoin to Namecoin at some instant, would we…
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Is namecoin a currency?
It seems like a very cool way to decentralize a DNS table (name -> IP address, right?) But I don't get why it has an exchange value to BTC or USD... Is there a fixed NMC price to register a domain name? Is Casascius going to stamp NMC keys onto…
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Is Namecoin actually being used for anything significant?
I have some idea of what Namecoin was trying to achieve, but as of yet I've never seen it actually used. Is it being used for anything of significance yet, or are there plans by anyone to do so in the short to medium term?
If I were to register a…
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What problems exist with the alt coin Namecoin and what can be done to fix them?
I like the concept of using a key/value store that is separate from the Bitcoin chain (preventing bloat), but utilizing the Bitcoin hashpower for security.
What are the dominant issues working against Namecoin today?
What can be done to correct…
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How many Namecoins are generated per block?
Is the block reward for Namecoin halving scheduled the same way as Bitcoin, or is there a different schedule?
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Are there many Namecoin domains in use?
I know that the idea of namecoin is to create distributed DNS system.
I also know that one can by bit address with namecoin.
But I have never seen any bit domains. If they do exist, how reliable are they?
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Can you register a .com domain with namecoin?
Namecoin is a generic name-value store, so I'm wondering if its possible to register .com domains in namecoin. The answer here seems to suggest you can register any domain you want How do I register a .bit domain name with Namecoin?
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Where can I find a Windows binary of MultiCoin?
MultiCoin is AFAIK the only GUI client that supports NameCoin. Is there a trusted Windows binary to be found?
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How are Namecoins managed by the system?
First of all, sorry for a potentially silly question, but I flicked through seven pages of questions here and I couldn't find a specific answer for that:
How does Namecoin basically work? I understand the basic principles of Bitcoin and heard these…
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Viewing .bit Domain Names in Firefox
I'm following the instructions on http://dot-bit.org/How_To_Browse_Bit_Domains and I have installed foxy proxy and I have gone to several .bit sites. But all of them I see are exactly the same. All of the .bit sites say the following?
Namecoin is a…
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exploring a local copy of the namecoin blockchain?
I installed electrum-nmc as a namecoin software and download blockchain in my computer. where I can find local copy of namecoin blockchain?
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How exactly does namecoin work on "low" level?
I know a bit about "low level" of bitcoin (transactions, blockchaon, script, network instructions...).
Now I want to read something about namecoin and all the online sources are very vague.
So, I have a question: how does namecoin work on the "low…
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Why does namecoin have the redundant name_firstupdate step?
I am trying to understand the namecoin protocol. As can be read in the namecoin documentation, in order to register a domain, you need to execute the following steps:
Execute the command name_new, this pre-oders a domain name.
Execute the command…
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Why are a majority of the namecoin sync messages "ConnectInputsHook() not in pending - must be someone elses"
I'm comparing the run time debug logs of namecoin and bitcoin and noticed that much of namecoin's initial sync processing is dominated by the following command:
ConnectInputsHook() : connecting inputs on…
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