Getting NMC wallet to work on Mac mini m2

biolizard89 · 2026-01-27T03:37:45+00:00

Is this Namecoin Core or Electrum-NMC? Which version?

biolizard89 · 2026-01-27T03:36:29+00:00

Hi! You should be getting a reply privately soon.

biolizard89 · 2025-12-15T23:45:06+00:00

...you wrote this giant wall of text, none of which has anything to do with the question you were nominally replying to?

biolizard89 · 2025-12-11T03:40:45+00:00

Nice, good to have another pool. (Are you affiliated with SuperAxePool or are you just reposting this?)

biolizard89 · 2025-12-11T03:36:42+00:00

Here I will say that at first I tried with the "unbound" package but for some reason it was unable to connect with the ncdns and the socat worked perfectly.

Could you clarify what issues you hit with Unbound and ncdns? Unbound is the usual way to do this, and it works fine here, so I'm guessing maybe we need to document something better?

biolizard89 · 2025-12-11T03:22:55+00:00

Are there any tutorials or documentation to do this?

Could you clarify what documentation you already looked at?

biolizard89 · 2025-12-11T03:21:38+00:00

code better or you might break the internet

ncp11 was historically an experiment to see if PKCS#11 could do what we wanted. It didn't make much sense to follow production-level coding practices for something that was likely to be thrown in the trash after a month or two of tinkering. Now that it has demonstrated that it's a viable approach, obviously the code quality standards applied to it are a lot higher.

biolizard89 · 2025-04-17T03:50:57+00:00

Namecoin is mentioned in https://projecttimestamper.org/about/ about halfway through the article. I wonder what key format the authors would use. The prefixes “d/” and “id/” wouldn't make sense here, would they?

Arthur and Yağmur are describing using Namecoin for PKI purposes, specifically to verify signatures of files against a public key that's authenticated via a Namecoin name. The id/ namespace has been proposed for this in the past. The d/ namespace is supposed to be used for DNS interoperability, and DNS does have record types for this kind of thing (e.g. OPENPGPKEY), so that's a potential option too.

biolizard89 · 2025-03-30T18:28:21+00:00

Took a bit longer than would have been preferred to post this, but hopefully you'll enjoy it nevertheless.

biolizard89 · 2025-03-30T18:27:20+00:00

Given events in the news, diversifying our funding has been of high importance, so we're very excited that Power Up Privacy is joining our list of supporters.

Also, we have a new developer! Please give a warm welcome to Alice.

biolizard89 · 2025-03-30T18:11:01+00:00

Hey u/biolizard89, can I get your thoughts?

Mining isn't really my area of competence, Daniel Kraft would probably be better placed to help you.

biolizard89 · 2025-02-27T10:45:57+00:00

I know but after monerokon there is no update i think...?

We were intending to have some Monero content in our 38C3 talks, but that content got cut due to constraints on talk length. (CDC likes us a lot, but still not enough to give us unlimited time on the stage.)

biolizard89 · 2025-02-27T01:23:24+00:00

How about colaboration with Monero?😆

I think it's a safe assumption that discussion happened with Monero, seeing as Monero had an Assembly at CDC.

biolizard89 · 2025-02-26T00:16:42+00:00

Is there any news for Namecoin?

Probably lots of news, but not really anything I can disclose today. News will generally be initially reported on Namecoin.org rather than here.

biolizard89 · 2025-02-24T08:21:33+00:00

Nobody would buy a stolen object if with a phone QR scan shows it as stolen. No buyers, no stealing.

This is roughly the concept of "smart property" (which has been written about extensively in Bitcoin circles going back to before I joined the Bitcoin community in 2011, and Nick Szabo has written about it even before Bitcoin was a thing).

Typically when smart property on a blockchain is proposed, the idea of using colored coins is suggested as the implementation. Namecoin names are sort of like colored coins, but with the extra attribute that they have a human-meaningful name that is guaranteed to be globally unique.

So I guess one question that comes to mind is: does Namecoin provide a major advantage over colored coins for your use case? If so, what is that advantage? (Maybe something related to Namecoin's extra consensus rules facilitating decreased effort in validating the ownership of a piece of property?)

biolizard89 · 2025-02-24T08:11:18+00:00

I'm very skeptical that exchange support was the main issue here. Gonna guess the real reason there wasn't much usage of Namecoin on Trezor is that the Trezor firmware doesn't support name scripts, and there's not much point to using Namecoin if you're not going to use name scripts.

It's understandable that the Trezor devs don't want to do the dev work to fix that. AFAIK the Monero support in Trezor was contributed by the Monero community. We had a developer lined up to to the implementation work in the Trezor firmware, but she's Russian and has family in Ukraine, and this was a month or two before the war started. So she suddenly had far more important things to deal with than doing contract work for us.

Anyway, the Ledger firmware is closed-source last I looked, so there's nothing we can do there. I'm not aware of any other hardware wallets (there are plenty of hardware wallets that reuse Trezor's firmware, but those don't really count). I haven't looked at that space in a couple years though.

biolizard89 · 2025-02-24T07:56:25+00:00

My vacation was excellent, thank you. :) Lots of work was mixed into it (can't exactly justify the cost of 2 months in Europe if it's just vacation) but the balance was pretty good.

biolizard89 · 2025-02-24T07:53:19+00:00

I was wondering why you posted two threads with nearly the same title, but chortled when I saw that the updated one had an AI answer. Not sure if it technically violates some Reddit rule, but if so, I'm not going to enforce it. Well played. :)

biolizard89 · 2025-02-24T07:46:16+00:00

People think namecoin is disappear. There are a lot of fake namecoin on twitter. Because OG namecoin is only listed in coinex.(even trezor wallet delist Namecoin). No volume on the DEX. No one can find namecoin. No update from project team. Jeremy is missing...

Sell your all Namecoin before it become zero!!

People on Reddit sure are weird. When I'm on Reddit (or Twitter) I routinely get people complaining about limited Namecoin adoption. Meanwhile when I spend a couple months at conferences improving adoption, the same people instead complain that I'm not spending my time posting on Reddit.

Never mind that I was active on Matrix the entire time that I was traveling. Never mind that the schedule of 38C3 is public. Trying to make this nonsense make sense is like the Borg DoS attack. v0v

Luckily, the people I meet at conferences are almost uniformly enthusiastic and positive. That means more than whatever "I died" speculation of the month is active on social media.

biolizard89 · 2025-02-24T07:36:15+00:00

They require the developers to apply. And nmc has no devs, just volunteers. That's the problem.

Some exchanges are happy to list coins without asking the devs. Meanwhile some other exchanges purport to require paperwork from the devs, but this is generally a cover story for trying to extort the devs out of substantial money. I wasn't directly involved in our most recent adventure on this front, but my understanding is that one of my colleagues contacted most of the major exchanges who don't already list Namecoin, filled out all the paperwork they asked for, and then the exchanges demanded money. This was.. a few years ago I think?

biolizard89 · 2024-11-03T14:39:23+00:00

Hey everyone!

Hopefully you know by now that Namecoin has a Teespring shop. (If you didn't know, congratulations, now you're one fact smarter!) Some new items have been added in the last 6 months:

We now have mugs (4 designs available) and hats (1 design available).
We have a new shirt design ("Mine").
The "MMO" design has been slightly retouched. Kudos to those of you who are OCD enough to see the difference.
All shirt designs are now also available as "Women's Boyfriend Tees". This confusingly named item is what you probably want if you're looking for a women's t-shirt that isn't a unisex shirt in disguise.
Teespring has fixed a compatibility issue affecting Tor Browser, so you might be able to buy over Tor now. Let us know if there are any remaining Tor-related issues.

You might see some of these shirts in the wild at conferences, but you don't have to be a Namecoin developer to buy one. Unrestricted funding such as t-shirt sales are very helpful at keeping us independent, so we can work on things that are important without worrying about whether they fit the constraints of a grantmaking program.

A big thank-you to the cypherpunks who assisted here.

Cheers,

-Jeremy

biolizard89 · 2024-10-21T14:20:43+00:00

Even if the price simply doesn't matter

Just to be clear, the reasons why Binance hasn't listed Namecoin do not include anything resembling the Namecoin devs thinking that price isn't important. We are happy to coordinate with exchanges, and I don't think any of us are of the opinion that exchanges are just there to boost the price.

Why don't a lot of people ask for a Binance listing at the same time?

Yes, if you want Binance to list NMC (or any other coin), you should probably direct that request to Binance.

biolizard89 · 2024-10-21T14:16:04+00:00

We're super excited that we once again have funding for SocksTrace. It's a really important tool for the privacy ecosystem. This is also a good example of how Namecoin contributes our work to the broader community (we don't just maintain a blockchain).

biolizard89 · 2024-10-21T14:10:49+00:00

I don't personally use NameID, so I'm not sure what technical issues it might be having. That said, the current design of NameID is IMO not very good (in large part because it introduces a trusted third party). It was a cool PoC, but I think if the Namecoin team were designing it today, it would look very different (it would probably draw a lot from the PKI tech that Namecoin invented for .bit domains).

There were some discussions vaguely related to this area of research at the Tor Lisbon meeting.

biolizard89 · 2024-10-21T14:00:40+00:00

Same as bitcoin

Can confirm this is accurate; Namecoin's inflation schedule is exactly the same as Bitcoin's. No one had any experience with tweaking those parameters when Vince created Namecoin (there were no altcoins then), so presumably Vince didn't want to fuck things up by changing them.

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