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Story: NameCoin (NMC) Frees DNS Identities and Technologies with All Aspects of Game on Blockchain

By Steven Anderson

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NameCoin (NMC) all the Aspects of the Game on the Blockchain

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NameCoin (NMC) Owner Writes and Everyone Reads

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NameCoin (NMC) is against censorship.  It is an experimental open-source technology that improves security, censorship resistance, privacy, decentralization, and speed of…

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For those who are technically savvy, “Namecoin is a key/value pair registration and transfer system based on the Bitcoin technology.”

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Namecoin can be used for a wide range of stuff.  It can be used to protect free speech rights online in a way, making the web very resistant to censorship.

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It is used to access websites by making use of the .bit top-level domain.

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Sydney Ifergan, the Crypto Expert, tweeted:  "Namecoin is the first fork of Bitcoin, and it continues to be the most innovative of the Altcoins."

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Namecoin is hailed to be the first solution to Zooko’s Triangle, which has been the long-standing problem in creating a naming system that is secure, decentralized, and…

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Namecoin does the job of securely recording and transferring arbitrary names (keys); Attaches a value (data) to the names of up to 520 bytes.

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The Namecoin team, in terms of Freedom of Information, states that one should not blindly trust OpenPGP fingerprints and that it should be verified via a variety of sources and…

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Daniel Kraft, the Lead Engineers of NameCoin, stated that they are looking to have all the aspects of the game on the blockchain. 

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The basic principle is first come first served, and the blockchain powers it.  The names expire after 36,000 blocks.

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In terms of applications of the cloud, the data is distributed to many nodes, data will be consistent among all, and all data is signed and can be trusted.

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NameCoin will also be working on proposed ideas like file signatures, voting, bonds/stocks/shares, web of trust, notary services, and proof of existence.

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The NameCoin blockchain permits decentralized nodes to reach consensus concerning the order of events and the state of a system.

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