The History of Feathercoin

Wellenreiter

Here is the genesis block, shared with Litecoin
http://explorer2.feathercoin.com/block/12a765e31ffd4059bada1e25190f6e98c99d9714d334efa41a195a7e7e04bfe2
Dated at 2011-10-07 07:31:05

And here is FTC block #1, the first FTC unique block, dated at 2013-04-16 21:17:40
http://explorer2.feathercoin.com/block/fdbe99b90c90bae7505796461471d89ae8388ab953997aa06a355bbda8d915cb

mirrax

scam warning addition:
8 Phoenixex scam… related to unocs a lot
?? FTC lover scam
?? Various scams of team member Kevlar:
1, 5BTC for not delivering his bot
2, unpaid 5BTC for his “medical expenses” on BTC Jam
3, Spring 2015 attempt to FTC brand theft, resulting in banning him
4, after this fiasco he managed to scam Calem for 60BTC

adittion to other topics:
5, ACP - paid to Sunny King, resulting in lowering 120confirms to 6 or so on btc-e

additional points:
btc-e delistment(s) - twice
cryptsy death

spring 2014, kraken investing 1000BTC into FTC

SMS service launch and demise

CrypoKnox online wallet launch and demise

FTC games page launch and demise

I am sure there is much more to talk about in history timeline. Feel free to add dates to my topics or make them more accurate.

wrapper

Just been reviewing the history of Checkpointing in Bitcoin …

Very interesting that Maxcoin uses automatic check pointing … :)

http://www.maxcoin.co.uk/

checkpointing the block chain : August 16, 2010, 09:40:23 AM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=834.0

zerodrama

PR for whom?
The purpose of a forum is to serve the needs of the forum.
That means understanding and preventing BS like UNOCs.
Remember when BTC ppl discussed sketchy crap in secret.
Let’s not be in secret.
@mirrax

wrapper

The main points are there are much “more positive events” to log on a Time-line than negative.

There will only be a paragraph to explain each, so I was already thinking each subject could have its own “sub thread”.

In the end, that might be too much (discussion of history), and that might divert limited resources from future developments.

One idea of the Time-line it would bring New Members up to speed on interesting key events or technologies history or technical details…

There is the original threads to look at if we identify the key ones; which was brilliant work again by some FTC forum members, in converting forums to new systems and retain history is a hard job, with tricky database conversions, plug-ins and theme set- (done twice) …

Wellenreiter

I’d suggest one post with the timeline, either in list form or any graphical format, containing just the head lines, which are then linked to the descriptions or posts containing the details.

bsotnikow

This is a great idea, I 100% agree. It shows honesty and resilience from the community and that is what is most important. Making the history easy to access for newcomers is an effort in decentralizing the knowledge. It also doesn’t allow critics to own the discussion around the negatives. Also, mentioned above, it will mostly be positive. So even as people investigate the negatives, they will run across many positives they maybe haven’t heard of.

History doesn’t matter to the blockchain itself, it functions great and is well supported and distributed. The openness of the community does matter.

AmDD

@bsotnikow said:

This is a great idea, I 100% agree. It shows honesty and resilience from the community and that is what is most important. Making the history easy to access for newcomers is an effort in decentralizing the knowledge. It also doesn’t allow critics to own the discussion around the negatives. Also, mentioned above, it will mostly be positive. So even as people investigate the negatives, they will run across many positives they maybe haven’t heard of.

History doesn’t matter to the blockchain itself, it functions great and is well supported and distributed. The openness of the community does matter.

Well said.

Im on the fence about the scams, however. While they did happen I dont see it as a part of the coins history. In some cases it wasnt even FTC that was stolen, it was BTC. Id say if anything, its part of the communities history and the FTC community blends into other coin communities. More of a grey area I think.

bsotnikow

@AmDD Good point. Maybe the way to present it then is as a positive. A negative thing happened in the world of alt coins, here is how Feathercoin dealt with the problem. Highlighting title is: “The feathercoin solution to . . . . implemented” or something similar.

wrapper

Thanks for the incentive, I’m gradually going through it myself. Plus : The news sheets will do most of the work anyway …

just need a thread link, title and a date, if any one wants to add one for consideration …

tmuir12

Hello all.
Long time since I’ve posted here.
Some time ago I started a timeline.
I’ve got a number of events and their dates up to December 2014 already listed on this timeline
here

Feel free to grab the details I entered there

bsotnikow

Hi All, just a suggestion but could this team prepare a proper Wikipedia page as well? Had another discussion on that here: http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8423/wikipedia/4

wrapper

@bsotnikow said in The History of Feathercoin:

-> Hi All, just a suggestion but could this team prepare a proper Wikipedia page as well? Had another discussion on that here: http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8423/wikipedia/4

The Wikipaedia page has been done before and deleted due to their strict referance policy as an excuse.

The core team is already doing too much, however I have written / am finishing a Feathercoin Wallet guide that can combine as a basis for inline help and such as, a Github Wiki.

Feathercoin Wallet Guide
https://github.com/wrapperband/FeathercoinWalletGuide

wrapper

@tmuir12 said in The History of Feathercoin:

-> Some time ago I started a timeline.
-> I’ve got a number of events and their dates up to December 2014 already listed on this timeline
-> here
-> Feel free to grab the details I entered there

Thanx for that - Here’s @tmuir’s Feathercoin Timeline :

Featheroin TimeLine

Wellenreiter

I didn’t know about neoscrypt.net, but it gives a white page for me?!!

wrapper

@Wellenreiter said in The History of Feathercoin:
-> I didn’t know about neoscrypt.net, but it gives a white page for me?!!

Looks Like it Registrant Name: MrWyrm …

Wellenreiter

@wrapper said in The History of Feathercoin:

@Wellenreiter said in The History of Feathercoin:
-> I didn’t know about neoscrypt.net, but it gives a white page for me?!!

Looks Like it Registrant Name: MrWyrm …

Lol :smile:

wrapper

The idea of using a software timeline might be a good one!

List of open source TimeLine Software / Website application add-on

SIMILE Timeline

sudo apt-get install libjs-simile-timeline

http://simile-widgets.org/wiki/How_to_Run_Timeplot_Off-line

http://wordpress.alternativelist.com/plugin/wp-simile-timeline-alternative-and-similar-wordpress-plugins-18025.html

Github ?