Namecoin

Namecoin is a decentralized open source information registration and transfer system based on the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Securely record and transfer arbitrary names (keys). Attach a value (data) to the names (up to 520 bytes, more in the future). Transact namecoins, the digital currency (ℕ, NMC). Namecoin was the first fork of Bitcoin and still is one of the most innovative altcoins. It was first to implement merged mining and a decentralized DNS. Namecoin squares Zooko's Triangle! Protect free-speech rights online by making the web more resistant to censorship. Access websites using the .bit domain (with TLS/SSL). Store identity information such as email, GPG key, BTC address, TLS fingerprints, Bitmessage address, etc. Human readable Tor .onion names/domains. File signatures, Voting, bonds/stocks,/shares, web of trust, escrow and notary services (to be implemented). The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build- .md for instructions) and tested, but is not guaranteed to be completely stable. Tags are created regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Namecoin Core. The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md. Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money. Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run (assuming they weren't disabled during the generation of the build system) with: ctest . Further details on running and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md. There are also regression and integration tests, written in Python. These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: build/test/functional/test runner.py (assuming build is your build directory). The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is tested on Windows, Linux, and macOS. The CI must pass on all commits before merge to avoid unrelated CI failures on new pull requests. Translation workflow is not yet set up for Namecoin Core. For strings which are common to Bitcoin Core, see below. Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works. Important : We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.