namecoin-core VS cosmos-sdk

See namecoin, one of the very first Bitcoin forks.

https://www.namecoin.org/

Namecoin - A cryptocurrency that also acts as a decentralized DNS, which makes internet censorship much more difficult.

Bro, literally, https://www.namecoin.org was created because Bitcoiners didn't want it on Bitcoin. Bitcoin is money, other coins are structures that work better as OTHER types of protocols. Not everything is a scam. Bitcoin is the decentralized protocol for money, other coins aren't, it's not a big deal.

Cryptocurrency is intended to be decentralised, to have privacy and security. A vanity address provides the opposite of privacy, which is traceability and publicity. This needs not be a weakness but can become a strength. Vanity addresses are hard to generate since they are almost random and getting the exact prefix (or string within the address) is exponentially unlikely. It is also why private addresses cannot be derived from public addresses, for hashing is a one-way function.

I've not seen much from namecoin devs here in a while, and the forum looks pretty dead. However, Twitter @Namecoin looks like it gets posted to somewhat regularly (not much in November tho) and the GitHub namecoin-core repo is receiving commits regularly... even if a lot of them are just merges from bitcoin-core.

Judging by your username, you're asking for something like Namecoin.

What problem does Mastodon solve? Just non-Twitter shortform social networking? What about Diaspora, PeerTube, etc?

Not being beholden to a central authority (whether that authority be Twitter, PayPal, or the US government) is intrinsically valuable to a lot of people. Blockchains are just a convenient and proven way of enabling that sort of independence.

Granted, decentralization is a bit of a niche, and the cryptocurrency gold rush has made it way more mainstream than it has any right to be at this point in time given it's current drawbacks. But that doesn't mean it's not valuable.

As for blockchain specifically: yes, decentralized payments seems to be the primary use case. But once you have a decentralized payments system, that enables the creation of a whole bunch of other decentralized applications that would not have otherwise been possible. That's why most "blockchain" projects start with a currency and then build from there: it's hard to build [decentralized cloud storage][1] or [decentralized DNS][2] without first having a decentralized way to pay for those services.

[1]: https://sia.tech/

[2]: https://www.namecoin.org/

Description: Namecoin (NMC) is a cryptocurrency . Users are able to generate NMC through the process of mining. Namecoin has a current supply of 14,736,400. The last known price of Namecoin is 1.42769184 USD and is up 3.58 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 7 active market(s) with $7,523.53 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://www.namecoin.org/.

This is a old known issue called "clipping" in the Cosmos SDK that happens when a validator was previously jailed and slashed: https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/5282

💡 GasMultiplier Instead of specifying the gas price, you may use the "gas": "auto” so that the blockchain application automatically estimates gas for you before submitting the transaction into the network for consensus with the estimate. This is why we include the gasMultiplier. By providing the gas multiplier you are specifying that the gas estimate should be multiplied by this number to account for possible changes in the gas fee estimate and the eventual gas fee. See The estimate is not always the exact gas required for the transaction execution.

Shido is now listed on cosmos.network. Shido Chain is interoperable with all chains and dApps in the Cosmos for value sharing and joint liquidity through the IBC Protocol.

We have pinned this post to bring information front and center on the Cosmos Network Project and its evolution into the Internet of Blockchains. A new Interchain Era is here, bringing interoperability, scalability, and mass adoption to the Cosmos Ecosystem!

Cosmos (ATOM) is a dPoS blockchain. Often it is named in the list of 3rd generation blockchains like ADA, DOT, ALGO, etc. As one can already see it has a lot of competition. To be able to get a better view of ATOM it is to not describe what it is in itself but how it compares to its competitors.

The cosmos.network website is not indexed by Bing. Someone noticed this and created a scam website my-cosmos[.]network which is ranking very high for the search term "cosmos network"

Upgrade Cosmos-SDK to SDK v0.44 from SDK v0.42 For a full list of updates in Cosmos-SDK v0.44.3 please see its changelog. Noteable highlights include:\n - Authz - Allows granting arbitrary privileges from one account (the granter) to another account (the grantee). \n- New modules:\n - Bech32IBC - Allows auto-routing of send msgs to addresses on other chains, once configured by governance. Allows you to do a bank send on Osmosis to a cosmos1... address, and it is automatically sent to the corresponding Cosmos Hub address over IBC. This is a big step in enabling more seemless IBC UX.\n - TxFees - Enables validators to easily accept txfees in multiple assets, whitelisted by governance, by declaring minimum fees in OSMO. Alternative fee assets are converted to their OSMO value, using the spot price on their primary OSMO base pair pool. This upgrade pre-whitelists all the assets currently supported on the Osmosis frontend with an OSMO basepair pool.\n- Implements Proposal 32 - Clawback of unclaimed Osmo and Ion on airdrop end date. (December 15th, 5PM UTC)\n- Upgrade IBC from a standalone module in the SDK to IBC v2. This improves the utility of Ethereum Bridges and Cosmwasm bridges.\n- Blocking OFAC banned ETH addresses \n- Numerous minor bug fixes, gas fixes, and significant speedups.

Instead of just imagining, Cosmos created a system that enables blockchains to connect. That system thrives on a hub - Cosmos Hub.