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Namecoin failed because of distribution issues, among other reasons: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/namespaces.pdf
Founder here. Why do you call it a scam? We've presented at many Bitdevs as well as TABConf, no one there called it a scam. Keyan told me himself that our talk at TABConf was great and the protocol was designed in a thoughtful way.
I also created a simple stratum proxy to mine on my own with my bitaxes: https://github.com/ca98am79/Simple-Bitcoin-Stratum-Proxy
the cost of renewal is just a tx fee on bitcoin. There is only another auction if the name expires and is opened for auction again
it is a trustless no-fee market for Spaces - owners can simply post the PSBT to sell their Space at a specific price, and anyone can buy it.
You have to renew a name once per year, which is just a bitcoin tx
top-level Spaces on the Spaces Protocol: https://spacesprotocol.org/
“If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.”
it is a completely decentralized naming layer for bitcoin. It is not only useful, but urgently needed
what is your solution to BIP-353 and centralized domain names and centralized third party certificate authorities? a lot of people want these things decentralized and see the need
a couple of people have started working on using their names with fabric: https://github.com/spacesprotocol/fabric
we plan to launch GUI wallet soon, then a production ready fabric release, then a marketplace, then registry system for selling subspaces. After that we will be working on integrations with , for example, nostr, bip-353, etc
Here is one way to quickly get started: https://x.com/spacesprotocol/status/1873873441373233398
I never said bitcoin replaces DNS. Before judging it as a scam I'd appreciate it if you knew more about the protocol first, you can read about it here: https://spacesprotocol.org/
We specifically made it cypherpunk. No separate blockchain, no separate token, no premine, no foundation...