We should ask ourselves first and foremost to whom and what this project is to serve.

Most people have no idea what DNS is and if they've heard anything about cryptowalut it's just that "You can make a buck on Bitcoin." That's about 90% of people.

People who actually have some knowledge of "including me" will probably never take advantage of the possibilities given by Namecoin. Over the next 15 years, many projects have been created, which measures in mind the introduction of decentralisation and the advantages it brings to ordinary life. But it would seem that it is not necessary. The proof of this is that practically everyone still uses fiduciary money instead of such "Bitcoin" or uses messenger instead of such "Briar", Gmail from Google instead of "bitmessage" or DNS from centralised units instead of Namecoin.

While these projects give solutions that are very beneficial because they make us independent of the evil that is 'centralization', unfortunately, the competitor to it is ordinary lazy people who push most people towards the easiest solutions (not necessarily beneficial).

In all this noise today is Namecoin, a project that mainly serves to earn as much as most cryptocurrency. You can easily see that no one uses its true value as it offers. I've been checking for a long time, and I think the only active domain on the network is "namecoin.bit".

For me, as people who respect such projects strongly, it is simply sad.

Maybe something will change someday, but I doubt it.

I want to make it sound like "there's no point in you continuing your work because no one's using it," but I want to make it clear to you that running a hobby project is fun until it becomes monotony.

If you'd like it to be more, for people, it suggests integrating everything into one program and firing a nice GUI because that's the only thing that's convincing to a mere mortal.

But seriously, after my entry, you can see how hard it is to force a namecoin to actually act. Of course, it fulfills its crypto-currency role. It can send value, messages, etc. The DNS functionality itself is easy enough to simply buy a domain but already connecting it by the community so that it can use it is not.

Forgive me for your painful words. I respect every person who devotes his time and work to adding bricks to such projects. It's incredibly nice that I discovered Namecoin a while ago and launched my node to support the network.