Feathercoin 0.8.6.1 Testnet

If you setup your client correctly this logo

will be displyed in the bottom right sys tray

Initial testing has complete on Feathercoin 0.8.6.1 which has a new the Enhanced Hash Rate Compensation solution created between Wrapper and Wellenreiter. The discussion for this is available here.

This is a call for others to join the testnet and throw some hashpower towards it. The compiled Windows Qt client is available from the link below.

Feathercoin 0.8.6.1 RC3 Windows Qt Client

To connect to the testnet make a shortcut to the feathercoin-qt.exe file in the zip linked above, right client and select properties and in the target field put the following at the end. Press okay and then run the shortcut. The client should then connect to the testnet. To solo mine you will need to specify rpcallowip, rpcuser, rpcpassword, server=1 and rpcallowip in feathercoin.conf and mine locally using the default testnet RPC port of 19337.

 --testnet -addnode=64.90.183.217

It is also possible to join in with just some hashpower by pointing your miners towards one of the testnet pools.

[background=#ffffff]Node 1: http://188.226.116.44:19328[/background]
[background=#ffffff]Node 2: http://46.4.0.101:19328[/background]

Username: Use your testnet wallet address (mgTPcQpeZrNDSW4JocVX2yPzyHfVtQ4tLW)
The password can be anything

To grab the source code for 0.8.6.1 from GitHub you need to specify the branch by using the following command.

git clone https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin.git -b 0.8.6.1