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I am using namecoin to resolve bittorrent sync secrets in my distributed browser Syncnet:

https://github.com/jminardi/syncnet

It was fairly easy to integrate

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Why not use the open source Clearskies instead of BTSync?

https://github.com/jewel/clearskies

AFAIK Clearskies does not have a working implementation yet.

Did you intend to link to a repository of markdown files?

I don't know anything about the project but it looks like there is a working implementation of the protocol in ruby in that linked repository (just not in the master branch).

There is also an in-progress c++ implementation of the protocol in a different repo [1].

Even so, it's pretty clear that the thing isn't ready yet and even states that it shouldn't be used for anything other than test data.

[1]https://github.com/larroy/clearskies_core

Stupid question: does resolving a Namecoin domain name involve downloading the whole blockchain or is it handled by third party servers?

Second. All you have to do is to use DNS server supporting .bit domains

Doesn't that defeat the point?

Not necessarily, see my responses to the same question here:

- http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/227t7x/can_name...

Related question: Is there a Bitcoin wallet where the blockchain resides on a server and the client is only used for signing transactions, with the server never seeing the public key, ever? That would be pretty damn useful.

There are several. Electrum is the most popular desktop one.

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This is interesting. Could the static HTML files connect to decentralized databases?

Almost certainly if there were a decentralized database that exhibited bitcoin / namecoin like behaviour.

Development has slowed to a crawl, but http://datacoin.info is still alive. It focuses on redundancy, as all participants have a full copy of the database, and so data amounts are small (1 datacoin = 20kb). Still, there's a potential use case there for text-only content.

Definitely looking forward to distributed storage apps; other projects in progress include BitCloud, MaidSafe, and Ethereum.

Participating in Datacoin sounds legally dangerous. All a miscreant needs to do is include into its blockchain some files that are illegal to possess, and everyone is potentially in trouble.

It would be like this, but worse: http://www.dailydot.com/business/bitcoin-child-porn-transact...

Such link could be sent with a bank transfer too - I don't think you could then claim the bank holds and spreads the links to child abuse. Or could you?

That's an interesting scenario, and I don't know how much distinction is made between possession of illegal material and possession of a means of instantly retrieving it.

Datacoin has the storage capacity to include the actual images as part of the blockchain though, not just (probably quite ephemeral) links to such.

Check out http://maidsafe.net. I think it does that.

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