I'll give the git link a look when I'm done reinstalling the OS, thx. Hopefully I don't need to naviate anything and just need to hit the download link on that pagee which said something about cgminer master when I clicked it to see the file name.

Tried all of them. Even left everything down and off for 2 hours, before rebooting

Simple. Just install Ubuntu and download the built cgminer binary. Make sure you follow the ASIC-README to setup the USB permissions properly.

One more stale... indeed very strange.

I am using the updated version of the original namecoind. It's not related to the update. I've seen this happen a couple times before. Seems to happen about once or twice per year. Usually namecoin was in an abandoned state with no developers, but now it has some, maybe they can figure it out. I sent them some info.

What happens is that namecoind gets into a broken state and I get this in its debug.log at apparently random intervals:


Here is one block being created. It seems to be propagating to other nodes, but for some reason they don't consider it part of the chain.


Could it be related to broken transactions? Maybe my node is creating blocks with invalid transactions and accepting those blocks, while other nodes reject them. At least that is my first guess.

Yeah, finally working again.


That did it. Thanks, snailbrain.

I guess it will be hard for namecoin devs to track down this issue. It might happen twice a year on a busy pool.

Maybe I can automate detection and recovery from this. But it's not the easiest failure to detect.

Anyway, issue worked around for now, namecoins being minted again.

I think a namecoin being worth more than 1% of a bitcoin is a strangely high price.

But I also think most other alt coins being valued above zero is even stranger. I guess it will take a few years for people to realize that the value of a bitcoin clone, with no new features that matter, is zero, and for most of the 500 alt coins to die out. Forking a project on github doesn't make you a developer, nor does it instantly create millions of USD value. You have to do the work and create something useful. Which namecoin has done. Let's hope the new namecoin developers can fix bugs and push things forward.

11 hours!! 

Hello fellow miners ,
I wonder if any one has a simple way of getting a wallet for namecoin or a video instructional for a windows vista computer ?

I have tried in the past but I could never successfully follow the directions and end up with a place to store the namecoins I am mining here .

This man spiked my interest .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjN4PA8Zp2M&feature=em-uploademail.

I would convert them into btc for you.   put them in this address


MyQpF1yqNDHH2znc74vifXBWr5xsRKL2oJ    


 the exchange I use   is giving about .0085 btc for 1 nmc  so 10 nmc are about .085btc  and 100 nmc are about .85btc  




https://vircurex.com/welcome/index?referral_id=756-12066


this one is an exchange but they have fees. the link is my referral link I get tossed a few bucks for your joining.  

if you goal is cold storage of nmc  in a paperwallet why?    I would rather do that with btc.  but to each their own.

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