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What can xxxCoin do to stop the impending 51% attack?
Within the coming weeks both Namecoin and SolidCoin have been threatened with the same attack. What can be done by the users, pool operators and developers of these forks to either;
A. Minimise damage.
B. Stop it altogether.
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What are Namecoins?
What are Namecoins exactly, how do they differ from Bitcoins, and how come one is able to merge mine them along with Bitcoins?
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Is there a usable Namecoin e-wallet?
Specifically, I need the easiest possible way to store Namecoins mined through merged mining, so the eWallet will have to deal well with generated transactions. Do any NMC eWallets actually exist? Do any of the exchanges deal well with generated…
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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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What happens when NameCoins stop being generated?
When Bitcoins stop being generated it won't be a problem: prices can gradually be lower. Namecoins, however, have a more-or-less set price, which is the domain register price. If Namecoins stop being generated, but people of course still want to…
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Why do namecoins have any value?
Many Bitcoin mining pools offer merged mining with Namecoin, and there are places where one can buy and sell BTC for NMC and the other way around.
But, why would anyone want to own NMC? As far as I understand, browsing dot-bit domains doesn't…
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Is there a usable Namecoin GUI client?
Is there any GUI client that is capable of trading Namecoin, and is somewhat trusted by the community?
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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 EFF's proposed Sovereign Key system similar to how Namecoin/Bitcoin works?
To avoid the problems caused by the current SSL certificate infrastructure, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has proposed Sovereign Keys, which appears to be backed by a distributed, append-only datastructure that can grow to hundreds of…
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When did merged Namecoin-Bitcoin mining start?
(This question was originally asked before merged mining began)
When exactly did merged mining of Bitcoin and Namecoin chains start?
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Is there a way to tell which *coin is most profitable to mine?
Basically a program that could run some hashes for all of the different hash functions that are used in the different big cryptocurrencies and then get the current difficulty from all of them. From there you can determine how many of those coins you…
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Specific namecoin address in merged mining
I want to do merged mining with P2Pool, and I want any generated namecoins to go to a specific namecoin address in my wallet. I haven't seen a way to configure this in P2Pool or namecoind, and Google's turned up no hits. It seems as though it's…
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How does Ethereum domain registration works?
I am wondering how does the Ethereum domain registration works? From what I can see in the whitepaper, I know there is account-specific data storage, but I don't know if that would be the ideal way to register domains. Generally, one would need some…
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Does encoding Namecoin/messages into the blockchain bloat it?
I read today twice concerns about inflating the blockchain:
NameCoin
Bitcoin Message Service
So, does using these services "over inflate" the blockchain? The way I see it, if another protocl rides on top of Bitcoin but obeys by its rules and pay…
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Why did BitcoinEXpress plan a 51% attack on Namecoin?
I don't understand this post.
What is "ArtForz modified exploit"?
What does "Gavin's patch will not work for the exchanges" mean?
Any more important details I'm missing?
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