I was reading Charlie Lee’s post about why Litecoin would not be changing their algorithm to prevent ASIC mining. For LTC it makes sense not to change as the ASICs would most likely be strictly mining LTC and, in the end, they could help make their network stronger and push adoption.

One of the things he mentioned is that he thought it would be hard to, “convince everyone (pools, exchanges, miners, users, etc.) to adopt the alternate code”. Again I could see that being the case for their coin. Does anyone anticipate a problem getting the whole Feathercoin community to change to a new algorithm?

I was reading Charlie Lee’s post about why Litecoin would not be changing their algorithm to prevent ASIC mining. For LTC it makes sense not to change as the ASICs would most likely be strictly mining LTC and, in the end, they could help make their network stronger and push adoption.

One of the things he mentioned is that he thought it would be hard to, “convince everyone (pools, exchanges, miners, users, etc.) to adopt the alternate code”. Again I could see that being the case for their coin. Does anyone anticipate a problem getting the whole Feathercoin community to change to a new algorithm?

How long do you want us mine?

Yeah, no response on node one for me either.

Client is up and running.

Yeah, hence my back peddling, it’s not the word I was looking for.

Bad joke, sorry. No offense intended.

To be honest I don’t think a name really is important is it? Considering what we’re doing, the name it self would have little impact.

I’m just saying I’m not so stressed, I thought ABC would of been a good one but the more I think about it, a name for the algo is really the last of our concerns at the moment.

Yeah, you’re probably right. The reason is I’m talking about the name is because I want to feel like I’m contributing. I don’t know enough to make recommendations of the what and how for changing the hash type.

You could hint at feathercoin origins, without actually branding it.

Ideas like

Rachis (In biology it’s the central vain or shaft from a feather or leaf)

Or perhaps one of the many feathered creatures of legends.

I agree, not a huge fan of NeoScrypt. (wouldn’t say I detest it though ;D )

I like the idea of the sly branding where if you really wanted to dig up the origins you could, but to the layperson, it’s just a name.

Rachis has a coolness to it I think. You could also do something like avian, quill, or wing-script… or not, you get the idea.

Add one more to the list.

“Make a fortune”, haha, maybe they will. At least it still comes with PS/2 ports :P

I was going to say that,“I’m a coal miner and I wanted to try mining something that wouldn’t give me the black lung,” but then my dumb conscience got the better of me.

I’m a Network Admin for a non-profit.

It would be cool to be able to pay for services with FTC. Things like VPN service, Grooveshark, and whatnot.

This thread is pretty old so this may not be relevant anymore, but I found these two:
http://www.cryptochart.com/
http://www.gobitgo.com/charts/