HowToGetNamecoins

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How To Get Namecoins

Contents 1 Namecoin Faucets 2 Bitcoin Faucets 3 Mining 4 Namecoin Exchanges 5 Over the counter (OTC) trading 6 Bounties/Rewards 7 Receiving Namecoins

Namecoin Faucets

http://namecoinfaucet.tk/ Defunct, SPAM.

http://faucet.yepcorp.com/ Defunct.

Bitcoin Faucets

1. Register account at exchange that supports trading BTC for NMC. For example BTC-E.

2. Find free Bitcoin faucet, for example https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/, and transfer some free bitcoins to get account from the exchange.

3. Convert your free Bitcoins to some Namecoins!

At the time of this writing, you can get about 0.35 NMC using this method, which is enough to register about 15 domain names.

Mining

Namecoins are mined in the same method as bitcoins.

• General Mining guide

Namecoin Exchanges

• See the Trade page for a list of exchanges that sell namecoins.

Over the counter (OTC) trading

• #bitcoin-otc orderbook for NMC
• Dot-BIT trading forums

Bounties/Rewards

• paid blogging on Rejuvepedia

Receiving Namecoins

To receive namecoins, you'll need a namecoin address. To generate a new address, do:

./namecoind getnewaddress

Each time you type this command, this will generate a new address. Namecoin addresses start with the letter 'N' or 'M' (example : N1KHAL5C1CRzy58NdJwp1tbLze3XrkFxx9)

Note: old namecoins addresses start with 1, like bitcoin addresses. To avoid confusion, format has been changed.