Quote from: biolizard89 on Today at 03:06:33 AM

OK so I read through the above posts 3 times and I still can't tell what concrete thing you are proposing. I see various rants about politics (not the kind of politics that Namecoin pertains to), but nothing about naming (which is what we do). I also can't tell who you are claiming constitutes an "oligarchy"/"aristocracy" in Namecoin (...the miners? ...the devs? ...random users on Reddit and Matrix?).

Why don't you tell me specifically which political issue/rant does not pertain to nmc, in your view, and I'll explain why it does, in my view.

Naming is one aspect of nmc. It would be more accurate to say it is a tool that creates an economy and a naming system together.

ol·i·gar·chy
/ˈäləˌɡärkē/
noun
a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.

ar·is·toc·ra·cy
/ˌerəˈstäkrəsē/
noun
the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices.
"the ancient Polish aristocracy had hereditary right to elect the king"

No different than most crypto, namecoin has a core group, including developers who volunteer their work. But as with most crypto that generousity is based on newcomers paying homage to the established group.

Quote from: biolizard89 on Today at 03:06:33 AM

Regarding your claim that (I guess?) a single pool has 70% of hashrate, that's not what Metrics says. As of Aug 1, the largest pool is Antpool with less than 42% hashrate. https://metrics.namecoin.org/namecoin/period-timestamps-14-days/pool/charts/latest.txt

Right now it is 41%.

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/nmc/#!extraction

Quote from: biolizard89 on Today at 03:06:33 AM

Namecoin is, generally speaking, not a vehicle for testing experimental blockchain features. To the extent that we do scientific research, it's mostly in layer 2, and occasionally on-chain only for things that are critically required for the naming system to work.

How can you say "Namecoin is, generally speaking, not...."

So you volunteer as a namecoin dev and that gives you a uniform and decorations?

You have a firm construct in your mind of what suits you, what namecoin should be, and 'volunteering' lets you take your power out and exercise it.

You are generous to volunteer, but your motives are murky, same as me and anybody else. I'll be careful not to poach deer in your kingdom.

Quote from: biolizard89 on Today at 03:06:33 AM

If you think it's "cavalier" that the Namecoin community wants to be a naming system as opposed to an economics experiment, I'm not really sure what to say. *shrug*

Uhm, what???

Here is the quote you are abusing.

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70% of the last 1000 mined blocks went to this address
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/nmc/address.dws?nc1q2ml905jv7gx0d8z5f7kl23af0vtrjk4j0llmwr.htm
which has 102k nmc.
That address doesn't look like a normal pool, their last outgoing transaction was 150k, and before that 100k.

Again, not as bad as bitcoin overall, but I don't even know how to address the cavalier attitude toward that kind of thing.