Namecoin Forum

Did anyone read the hacker news article? tptacek is quite knowledgeable when it come to cryptography and he had this to say: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786351 The problems this author lists with SSL/TLS are not in fact problems with SSL/TLS, but rather with the browser vendors. The TLS st...

snailbrain wrote:Hard Fork Date Brought Forward

11th DECEMBER

Darned miners!

Fingers crossed....

Unless every single machine trying to access .bit has a full copy of the NMC blockchain, this would be unfeasible.

root DNS only serves up ip addresses in exchange for domain names, there is no way to have a DNS return web content.

It's going to hit $50 tomorrow. /s

Until we can get some traction on .bit domains, I think people will always see NMC as being worth a small fraction of BTC value... whatever that may be.

The USA will be the last state which will accept this passport anyway so their requirements are not relevant. But anybody can make a link in his online passport to his external photo-album(eventually to his facebook account). True, but they're great when it comes to standardization. You might not w...

I'm fairly certain that namecoins spent towards registering a name are lost forever.

With the idea being that the price for registering a domain name will continue to drop over time.

Once we hit 0.000001 NMC/registration you're talking like 20B+ possible registrations.

In the coming rebase it is intended the value field to be enhanced to 5k. (this is necessary primary for the 4k GPG key) Really!? I had no idea. Is this going to be live once the hard fork passes on Dec 13th? Or once khal gets caught up rebasing the namecoin client? There is an exhaustive list of w...

Just caught this on Hacker News. There is a fairly lively discussion going on about it over there right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786239

Original article is here: http://blog.mediocregopher.com/namecoind-ssl.html

It is a bit disturbing have so many "official" repositories.

That's an interesting idea. I wonder if we could get a list of data that is currently held in the RFID chips they are implementing in the new passports around the world these days? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport One of the advantages of having to produce a physical passport document...