You should be able to buy from Coinex but may need a VPN.

And I really wish these devs would stop gaslighting us about why they've made no effort to get this coin listed onto a few more exchanges. Literally every single time I've ever brought this up I've never heard a truly logical explanation. Like I've heard excuses but never any good ones???

Says the person suggesting a 3-way fork

lmao I'm sure you're so important that if anyone can stop this it's you!

On a more serious note, I'm finding it weird there would be people so obsessed with attacking this coin. AFAIK there aren't any exchanges were you can short it. Maybe a rival project scared of what would happen if this coin actually does get browser implementation? There's obviously some kind of motivation to spend time writing these posts otherwise it's just as easy to ignore the thread and not draw attention to the project. :thinking:

That said, the idea of browser implementation has been floated around for like 10 years now with not a whole lot to show for it. I can understand long time supporters being frustrated but it's kinda weird there are people who seem genuinely upset that the possibility it happens still exists?? lol?

Full disclosure: I'm just a long time holder from like 50 cents back in the old BTC-e days and sell some whenever price wicks up then accumulate more. I'm mostly involved in trading other coins and don't really care what happens cuz the risk reward is too good given such a small market cap and what would happen if some _real_ good news were to break. If the coin goes to 0 won't be a big enough loss for me to care that much (in some ways would be nice to have the closure) but on that small chance the project really does pull through it's going to be so worth the wait.

Has anyone managed to talk to the dev team? They clearly still post updates and latest release was just a couple months ago but outside of what they post on the site sometimes they seem rather quiet about the project.

Would be nice if they could address why NMC is not being carried on any major exchanges. If we can get it listed on one of the non-chicom trading sites I suspect we'd witness a major spike in market cap. Maybe they don't want this yet but the project's over 10 years old no?

I did something similar to test them. They seem alright. Now I keep a good chunk of my NMC there for trading the swings and accumulating more. I also use their charts for most of my analysis for trading other coins. That said, the majority of my trading is done on Coinbase because you never know when these offshore exchanges could suddenly vanish.

Also, I don't think the low volume is an issue with Coinex and that it's more of an issue with NMC having an extremely low market cap. If we really want more volume we need to figure out how to get NMC on some bigger more well-known exchanges. I'm really surprised Coinbase doesn't have it because they have a ton of other coins and NMC is like the original altcoin.

Maybe CoinMarketCap is wrong then: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/namecoin/

Either way the numbers are about within the same magnitude so the overall point doesn't change.

One thing I find interesting right now is how little supply of Namecoin there is for the price.

To put it in perspective a coin like Cardano has a circulating supply of 33,257,079,050 ADA and trades at about the same price as NMC right now ~$2

However, there's only a circulating supply of 14,736,400 NMC

That means Cardano is 2256.8 times more abundant. If NMC rose to the same market cap that would easily put it at thousands per coin.

I suspect people are holding off on hyping it up too much to build positions and waiting for it to return to a major exchange. It was popular on btc-e/wex but after they went down the coin has only been traded on lesser-known exchanges.

It's clear the devs are still active but it would be nice if they tried to increase frequency of dev posts a bit. Might help to build momentum while we petition to get it added to somewhere like Coinbase.

Looks like someone trying to load up on Coinex. Hmmm...

I wonder if any of the bigger exchanges plan to pick up this coin again? Appears that most of the volume is strictly on Coinex and AltCoinTrader. Would love to see NMC get the attention that it deserves considering it is still an active project and all.

I've been kinda out of the loop with things ever since BTC-e/Wex went down but have tried to keep my eye on this coin. The idea behind it is solid and it's got a long history as well as still being an active project. Curious why it's not traded on more platforms? Only place that seems to have much volume right now is Coinex.

Would be nice to try and get some hype going. Not so much for the price action (though I would like that too lol) but more because with all the cancel culture crap and deplatforming etc the concept of decentralized DNS couldn't be more appealing.

ahahah and I almost took the deal a few days ago but at the last minute convinced myself to wait (am all-in koin).

I'm waiting for an answer to this as well. Since it appears verification will be required to some extent, the question is will verification be required for ALL withdrawals or just for fiat? It's pretty ridiculous to have to verify just to withdraw coin, especially some random alt like NMC (what I was in). Taking a 45% loss today just to find out later I didn't have to is going to suck. It also begs the question of what actually is going to happen with US residents? Are those who identify themselves as in the US going to have their funds confiscated, and by whom?

I almost wonder if the lack of clarity is deliberate just to spook people into unnecessarily handing over 45% of their coin.

I don't disagree with most of what you are saying but it needs to be pointed out, again, that user logins are a comparison of the result of a salted(?) and hashed password against the salt+hash stored in the DB. They are NOT decrypting your stored password to compare with what you typed. In theory this means if a rather sophisticated operation was going on (meaning BTCe had their twitter etc compromised) a bad actor could still have a functional login and NOT actually know your password (but log it when the hashes match). I am not suggesting this is what's happening and tbh I think the .nz site is most likely legit but let's not spread misinformation about how user authentication works.

Honestly I don't even care if the feds own the site now if I can get my NMC withdrawn. I was only concerned about someone tricky trying to harvest logins. I've never once attempted to take cash back so don't even have concerns over taxes. All I got to lose at this point is the coins themselves (and they're already in limbo) hence the caution with logging into a site that isn't quite functional yet.

Ok to be honest I missed that they even posted it on their Twitter. This leans me further towards yeah they are legit. I'm getting a cloudflare at the moment right now anyway but I'm certainly less skeptical now.

I don't know how their back-end is written but my assumption is user logins never actually decrypt the password and check, they encrypt the user login attempt and compare with the encrypted stored value. If someone had obtained a copy of the site/db with the salt + public key, in theory users could log in and successful attempts could have their unencrypted passwords logged. Not saying it's the case but it is absolutely possible.

As a precaution, until I hear people claiming they can actually do something on the site aside from simply log in, I'm not going to provide my credentials yet. That said, this is quite exciting and I have more faith now than before that I'm finally going to get access to my coins soon!!!

Watching this thread closely now

So say I had 1000 NMC. What does this mean? I get 450 back? And some other kind of tokens as well??? As far as I'm aware the NMC wallets weren't touched... Pretty silly to socialize EVERYTHING when the markets are a gamble to begin with. I could understand socializing specific markets' payouts but only depending on what was left of those funds.

You still haven't acknowledged what happened with BTC-e was NOT an unregulated exchange scamming it's users, yet you're trying to make it seem that way to push your "all exchanges should be regulated" propaganda. Comes off incredibly insincere. But it's obvious you have an agenda and will do anything to draw attention away from the fact the only one doing any stealing are self-declared "regulators" who are nothing but a mafia wanting a cut. And you support this!

Not expecting an honest response here but I gotta call it like it is.

Your logic is terrible and should probably just leave. Funds were not lost due to "unregulated" BTC-e, they were lost BECAUSE of regulators.

In no way is what happened to BTC-e an argument FOR regulation and anyone with a genuine opinion (not agenda-driven fud) knows that.

I had about 930 NMC on there when they went down and that was it. Hoping this will be easier for them to refund then other things (such as fiat or BTC which may have had at least a portion siezed). Gut feeling is if they come back then most alt-coin holders will be ok but can't say for everything else.

Except Mt Gox was hacked and the coins no longer were available to be returned. This is a rather different situation where (assuming the US gov now owns the coins) the feds are openly stealing from innocent people in broad daylight. Something doesn't add up with that and is why I think there's still a good chance once everything is 'audited' the legit users will get their funds back. Of course if BTC-e is now pushed into exit scamming then who knows.

The silence and lack of information is killing me though. At least with Mt Gox it was clear the funds were stolen.