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Re:Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More by valevk on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @10:41AM (#8917391)
> 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.

Re:Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More by Aqueous on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @02:12PM (#8918801)
Namecoin (http://namecoin.info) might be of interest to you.
Re:Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More by valevk on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @10:38AM (#8923509)
That's what I was looking for.