Add namecoin support to obelisk

[dionyziz]

As part of OpenBazaar, we plan to use namecoin to query user-friendly names associated with markets. To verify authenticity of names, we wish to query the namecoin blockchain. Obelisk would be the ideal way to do this. Are there any plans to incorporate such queries into the protocol?

[evoskuil]

What do you mean by authenticity? In other words, what specific claim/truth do you need to prove the authenticity of?

[dionyziz]

We need to check name - value correspondence. Perhaps DNSChain would be a better way of doing this. This is still in the works.

[evoskuil]

There has been discussion regarding altcoins, but nothing specific about namecoin. It's certainly possible. We have plans to make the treatment of testnet more dynamic. Currently it's a compile-time option. This is essentially an altcoin, so probably as that work starts it's worth looking how deep we want to take the abstraction.