Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin • Hacker News Board

Re: Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin

#11

Post by Locke1689 » Thu, May 26, 2011, 8:00 AM UTC

This was submitted 12 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546815)

I'm so thrilled that instead of reading almost identical bitcoin stories I can now read actually identical bitcoin stories.

At this point I'm almost hoping everyone who uses bitcoin gets picked up by the IRS for tax evasion just so no one will submit any more stories to HN.

Re: Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin

#12

Post by hollerith » Thu, May 26, 2011, 9:08 AM UTC

polarized wrote: post #10

rfugger wrote: post #2

Brilliant. This is an equally useful application of the block chain concept as the Bitcoin currency, and should be much less controversial.

Maybe but things like domain squatting and the inability to shut down domains pointing to illegal or controversial sites is likely to be quite controversial.

Good point. If I'd designed this, I would have considered restricting the name space to strings of digits to avoid the opprobrium when some domain-name speculator holds redcross.bit or teachforamerica.bit hostage.

Re: Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin

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Post by DennisP » Thu, May 26, 2011, 11:27 AM UTC

polarized wrote: post #10

rfugger wrote: post #2

Brilliant. This is an equally useful application of the block chain concept as the Bitcoin currency, and should be much less controversial.

Maybe but things like domain squatting and the inability to shut down domains pointing to illegal or controversial sites is likely to be quite controversial.

I think the inability to shut down domains is the main point. (And quite a good one, in my opinion.)

Re: Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin

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Post by astro1138 » Thu, May 26, 2011, 11:48 AM UTC

Can't resolve any of those. Not on my Internets.

Re: Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin

#15

Post by sneak » Thu, May 26, 2011, 12:45 PM UTC

If you ignore it, it will disappear.

Re: Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin

#16

Post by gyom » Thu, May 26, 2011, 2:02 PM UTC

It's funny how the word "coin" in that name is essentially used to refer to this distributed computational process whose purpose it is to get people to agree on some version of the state of things (i.e. what is "real").

Next thing you know, kids in 2050 refer to reality as some sort of "heavily coined world".

Re: Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin

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Post by pnathan » Thu, May 26, 2011, 2:30 PM UTC

Locke1689 wrote: post #11

This was submitted 12 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546815 ) I'm so thrilled that instead of reading almost identical bitcoin stories I can now read actually identical bitcoin stories. At this point I'm almost hoping everyone who uses bitcoin gets picked up by the IRS for tax evasion just so no one will submit any more stories to HN.

There once was a bot which caught the reposts and commented on them.

But it was so offensive to have the reposts mentioned that the author shut it down, and perhaps even left HN. I haven't seen him around for a long time.

Re: Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin

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Post by dbaugh » Thu, May 26, 2011, 2:56 PM UTC

Despite people likely being able to break this 50 years in the future, I am willing to bet that ICE couldn't sieze a .bit domain right now.

Re: Namecoin: distributed domain registration system based on Bitcoin

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Post by Locke1689 » Thu, May 26, 2011, 5:23 PM UTC

pnathan wrote: post #17

Locke1689 wrote: post #11

This was submitted 12 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546815 ) I'm so thrilled that instead of reading almost identical bitcoin stories I can now read actually identical bitcoin stories. At this point I'm almost hoping everyone who uses bitcoin gets picked up by the IRS for tax evasion just so no one will submit any more stories to HN.

There once was a bot which caught the reposts and commented on them. But it was so offensive to have the reposts mentioned that the author shut it down, and perhaps even left HN. I haven't seen him around for a long time.

That was RiderOfGiraffes. He left a while ago for greener pastures. To be honest, my comment is probably one he would have objected to and I'm personally surprised at all the upvotes it has gotten. I think it reflects that there is an extremely vocal minority of people who care about Bitcoin and a lot of people don't care and just want them to take it somewhere else.