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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by flashmob on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @08:07AM (#14847066)
Some recognized projects that didn't have an ICO:

https://etherdelta.github.io - decentralized exchange is getting decent volume. Ironically the hacker dumped the veri tokens there.

https://ethlance.com - freelancer market. Looks like a place where once can earn Ether for coding in Solidity and related gigs.

http://ens.domains - .eth domain registry. Highly successful, will be integrated into the upcoming 'mist browser' release, plus a few other places (wallets & exchanges) support it already. Over 133k names registered.

Probably more I've missed.

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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by banderman on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:26AM (#14847516)
There are over 3,000,000 Namecoin domains registered[0], but nobody uses it. Not a worthwhile metric IMO.

[0]https://namecoin.webbtc.com/stats

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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by flashmob on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:36AM (#14848528)
Wow, amazing. That's a lot. Is there any reason or incentive why so many names despite not many use it?

Btw, full ENS stats here https://ens.codetract.io

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Re:Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Pla... by palunon on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:51AM (#14855106)
Squatting and premptive defense against it, maybe.

Or simply curious people trying something new. I know I registered a name for fun, and there was quite a bit of curious interest in tech circles in my area (even outside of cryptoanarchists types).

But then, for the moment most people see ICANN regulation as okay. Maybe if that changes, a distributed alternative will get traction.

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