Quote from: biolizard89 on Today at 02:40:56 AM

Quote from: nutildah on Today at 01:41:03 AM

Quote from: PrimeHunter2023 on August 16, 2024, 08:57:28 AM

You're just refloating the same conspiracy theories without providing any sort of tangible evidence to back them.

"If you look, you'll see..." isn't a convincing argument to anybody in a position to take any sort of rational action when it comes to Namecoin, or most things.

It's also entertaining (at least to me and my colleagues) that PrimeHunter2023's wild speculation is exactly the opposite of the conclusions anyone who's remotely paying attention to Namecoin would draw. Case in point: "But a person does not see devs offering to work on the first altcoin after Bitcoin? Have any other developers been directly discouraged from working on Namecoin?"

Our team actually *has* been growing, and it's primarily because Namecoin devs (including but not limited to me) are recruiting new developers (and finding funding for those new developers), and those new developers decide they like our community and choose to stick around. (Robert and Rose are two recent team additions; Robert joined circa January 2023 and Rose joined circa January 2024.) None of this is a secret; we talk about this publicly all the time.

It's well known that cypherpunk communities attract mentally unwell people who are prone to all kinds of weird conspiracy theories. (I've coined "Rand's Law of Weekends" to describe how most of them vanish from the Tor IRC channels during the work week.) I'm pretty used to it by now; it doesn't actively bother me, and generally I find them entertaining. Nevertheless, "Jeremy is working with Chinese intelligence to stop the public from finding out that they have a backdoor for RSA and EC crypto, and Namecoin is actually a sheepdog project to stop endangered natural languages from being saved from extinction" certainly takes the cake for the wildest one I've seen in recent memory. v0v

You quote "Jeremy is working with Chinese intelligence to stop the public from finding out that they have a backdoor for RSA and EC crypto, and Namecoin is actually a sheepdog project to stop endangered natural languages from being saved from extinction"

You are suggesting I said anything like that?

Why don't you copy/paste something I actually said?

Regarding your funding/etc, I have noticed that when there are questions raised about namecoin on social media it is sometimes followed by a high profile grant by some organization pretending they are giving namecoin money to harden the internet or whatever.

You seem to have indicated that you do not want namecoin to be used widely because you believe real cypherpunks don't care about money or something? Is that a fair characterization of your view, quoted several comments up?