Why Namecoin Didn't Take Off: A Cautionary Tale
Michael Dean is host of the Freedom Feens podcast, but more importantly, he was one of the earliest (and loudest) advocates of Namecoin as a decentralized DNS system. But according to Dean, Namecoin has not taken off as he'd hoped, nor will it ever. Why? “It's a pity, because these guys are all absolutely brilliant computer scientists, but they have zero idea how to spread something and get adoption.” Dean told CoinTelegraph where he thinks Namecoin went wrong, what developers of other crypto projects should learn from their mistakes, and his own idea of a decentralized DNS alternative.
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