-
Stay a bit here on the forums and you will find out! Welcome :).
-
Because currency is not the fuel but the grease in a community. Currency is supposed to make things easier not make thing happen.
Because a good currency with developers who do not care about the community’s potential is a bad currency.
Don’t buy into the fallacy that technical features make a currency more valid. Valid means it can get you where you want to go. A technically better currency is one that could easily rot on someone’s shelf before it gets developed.
We already have a technically better currency here.
We are dealing with stampedes just fine. FTC can never get in another difficulty trap.We can argue all day about what you can buy with coins or what features a coin has, but features and products come from the community not from the source code.
Welcome. And by the way, if you have ideas start a thread and let’s make it happen. There are no leaders and followers here. We can all change what we think needs to be changed.
-
Like most btc users we just see ftc as a ltc knock off with no benfit other then to cash in on ltc’s semi success?
No fan of ltc but I’m here to give you guys a chance.So convince me, any real reason other then a get quick rich scheme that ftc should exist?
-
Big yawn to the first part ::)
[quote name=“zerodrama” post=“12888” timestamp=“1370943873”]
but features and products come from the community not from the source code.
[/quote]So ltc’s just a big circle jerk then?
-
[quote name=“sheepson” post=“12882” timestamp=“1370942990”]
Stay a bit here on the forums and you will find out! Welcome :).
[/quote]hi and thanks for being welcoming :)
-
Just talking about my own opinion after the last month of investigation.
The alternate currencies are needed because.
1. The early adapter bonus is needed to expand the network, for instance into the UK.
2. BTC is USA centric, other currencies are needed to dilute that monopoly of hardware and pre-mined coins.
3. Bitcoin not suitable for all uses, I did not participate because of doubts about the block chain length and completion times.
4. One currency is more open to attack.
5. Multiple currencies enable comparison for development and customising to applicable uses.There’s more, but those were enough to convince me…
-
This has been asked many times on the forum already and there are some great answers. For some reason I have never mentioned that competition is good for the consumer.
We are young still but we are a very positive community that is working hard to make this coin work for everyone. I believe we are still in a position where we can be more dynamic than Bitcoin as any grand changes to Bitcoin could be very damaging. For example we could do something radical like change our hashing algorithm. I believe if Bitcoin did this there would be a riot.
-
I suggest you take a look at the multiple fronts this community and the developers are working on, it soon becomes evident that FTC is not content with being an also ran clone, but is pushing hard in areas like Merchant adoption (creating a shopping cart, contacting merchants and exchanges and online auction solution similar to Ebay which uses FTC) and developing solutions to issues affecting cryptocurrencies in general like wild difficulty swings, 51% attacks etc with a view to developing mitigation strategies that can be used by other cryptocurrencies too.
We refuse to become a Pump and Dump footnote in Crypto history.
-
[quote name=“spynappels” post=“12914” timestamp=“1370946484”]We refuse to become a Pump and Dump footnote in Crypto history.
[/quote]
+1 -
[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“12912” timestamp=“1370946305”]
For example we could do something radical like change our hashing algorithm.
[/quote]Which might not be a bad idea. Slightly modify the scrypt algorithm so that it’s impossible for LTC, WDC, DGC, etc. pools / users to attack us so easily.
-
[quote name=“kelsey” post=“12895” timestamp=“1370944195”]
Big yawn to the first part ::)
[/quote]Hey are you the same guy on my buttmunch thread on BTC talk?
[quote]
[quote author=zerodrama link=topic=1595.msg12888#msg12888 date=1370943873]
but features and products come from the community not from the source code.
[/quote]So ltc’s just a big circle jerk then?
[/quote]LTC? did you mean to say FTC?
A circle jerk is a bunch of people who can’t make a decision. We are self-motivated. We discuss solutions. We create. -
It’s not about being first it’s about being right; it’s about understanding something about the nature of reality ahead of your peers. I invest in people and runway and when I discovered Feathercoin I saw both.
Commitment and tenacity are scarce, trust is scarce. I joined this forum for emotional reasons not financial. At best I hope to increase my purchasing power and I refuse to enter any of the competitions on this forum because that’s not why I am doing it. Feathercoin was the place I felt I could have the most impact, it was more agile than the other more established cryptos.
That being said your question is the one we are finding it hardest to answer and you are right to test us on this point. I am grateful to you for that.
-
[quote name=“zerodrama” post=“12919” timestamp=“1370947223”]
[quote author=kelsey link=topic=1595.msg12895#msg12895 date=1370944195]
Big yawn to the first part ::)
[/quote]Hey are you the same guy on my buttmunch thread on BTC talk?
[quote]
I you’re refering to the me being the same username on BTC talk…then yes.
[quote author=zerodrama link=topic=1595.msg12888#msg12888 date=1370943873]
but features and products come from the community not from the source code.
[/quote]So ltc’s just a big circle jerk then?
[/quote]LTC? did you mean to say FTC?
A circle jerk is a bunch of people who can’t make a decision. We are self-motivated. We discuss solutions. We create.
[/quote]Pun intended
-
[quote name=“iawgoM” post=“12927” timestamp=“1370949202”]
Hi kelsey, and welcome!Your question is completely legit, and it’s good that people ask that question openly and get honest answers back.
Could you and the others please continue this discussion on the other topic you’ve opened with the same quiestion: http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=1596.0;topicseen
Thank you.
[/quote]Hi and thanks for the welcome. Yes my questioning is legit and not just trolling, starting to be 101 spam coins out there so questioning any coins existence should be welcomed by honest attempts.
-
[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“12903” timestamp=“1370944852”]
2. BTC is USA centric, other currencies are needed to dilute that monopoly of hardware and pre-mined coins.
[/quote]
Was neither created by an American nor was it intended to be in anyway centred on US, just pseudo silicon valley wizards have taken on themselves to use BTC for their own ends.
twas also never intend to have one central exchange.
Doesn’t mean someone needs to create a new coin, but rather encourage more strenght in BTC worldwide.
-
[quote name=“spynappels” post=“12914” timestamp=“1370946484”]
I suggest you take a look at the multiple fronts this community and the developers are working on, it soon becomes evident that FTC is not content with being an also ran clone, but is pushing hard in areas like Merchant adoption (creating a shopping cart, contacting merchants and exchanges and online auction solution similar to Ebay which uses FTC) and developing solutions to issues affecting cryptocurrencies in general like wild difficulty swings, 51% attacks etc with a view to developing mitigation strategies that can be used by other cryptocurrencies too.We refuse to become a Pump and Dump footnote in Crypto history.
[/quote]Exactly what every other alt coin is saying and doing… ::)
-
[quote name=“chrisj” post=“12920” timestamp=“1370947395”]
Commitment and tenacity are scarce, trust is scarce. I joined this forum for emotional reasons not financial.
That being said your question is the one we are finding it hardest to answer and you are right to test us on this point. I am grateful to you for that.
[/quote]well there is some hope here
-
“Doesn’t mean someone needs to create a new coin, but rather encourage more strenght in BTC worldwide.”
Free market guy, it’s obvious we’re going to see the world a bit differently.
“It doesn’t mean”
You’re right, it means let the market decide on the direction they want to head. I heard the same thing when I got involved with Linux in the 90s. “We” don’t need another version of Linux, we have X. Thankfully that group became the ‘hardcore’ and Linux flourished from competition and incremental changes/ideas.
We welcome you to the community. Rather than trying to convince you, I’ll just recommend look around and do some reading on why so many people spend time here. If you find a project that interests you, fantastic, we’re always looking for new faces around here.
-
[quote name=“kelsey” post=“12954” timestamp=“1370952662”]
[quote author=spynappels link=topic=1596.msg12914#msg12914 date=1370946484]
I suggest you take a look at the multiple fronts this community and the developers are working on, it soon becomes evident that FTC is not content with being an also ran clone, but is pushing hard in areas like Merchant adoption (creating a shopping cart, contacting merchants and exchanges and online auction solution similar to Ebay which uses FTC) and developing solutions to issues affecting cryptocurrencies in general like wild difficulty swings, 51% attacks etc with a view to developing mitigation strategies that can be used by other cryptocurrencies too.We refuse to become a Pump and Dump footnote in Crypto history.
[/quote]Exactly what every other alt coin is saying and doing… ::)
[/quote]
Not quite, AFAIK no other coin has taken steps to reduce the maximum change in difficulty and increase the number of changes in a given time frame to reduce wild swings in difficulty, Bushstar has.
No other coin has created a specific testbed on which to model how changes made to the protocols and new features would affect the coin, the community here has (Leathercoin).
Very few coins have had the community rally and mine at a loss to the same extent to ensure it’s survival as this community has done.We do not intend to threaten other cryptocurrencies, but neither will be feel we cannot make improvements and take a new direction to help FTC grow and mature, just because other people don’t like it.
Everyone has a choice, join in or don’t. If people do, that’s great. If they don’t, that’s also fine. The continued negativity against Feathercoin has not deterred the community to date, and will not do so in the future.
Like I said, we will not allow Feathercoin to become a Pump and Dump footnote in Crypto history. Those who want to help us to this goal, feel free to pitch in. Those who don’t, we can take the sniping, no problem.
-
::) ??? ???
