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		valevk on Jan 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, ... > Enough people are keen on it succeeding that it'll do something useful. Exactly. I am personally convinced it will succeed, but I don't know in which way. It could be anything that benefits of proof of work. Are there actually libraries, or clients which create a P2P network, that is generic? I mean the client synchronization is the same as in BTC, but the data exchanged is generic.

Aqueous on Jan 20, 2015 [–]

Namecoin (http://namecoin.info) might be of interest to you.

valevk on Jan 21, 2015 | [–]

That's what I was looking for.

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