If we did this and new ppl can start mining in minutes, I will create a whole series of videos to promote that. I have done work in mass marketing of videos and can see how this would work well. We make a template 1 min video how to start mining. Then we update the titles to “How to get Bitcoin through mining” “How to get Ethereum through mining” “How to profit in BTC from mining” “How to profit in Monero from mining”…to get a huge span of keywords. To make it honest, the ends of the template video mentions going to an exchange and using your newly mined FTC to get any coin you like.

Hi All. I offered 50000FTC as bounty for implementation of smart contracts. It is set aside and remains in wait. I’m an easy person to find, its held in trust by my reputation alone.

Also, just a comment on what happened with the other bounty. Its a real shame and its terrible for Kraken who has been a valuable ally to us all… But please keep all discussion on that matter public so people can see that 1 person acted inappropriately, but that it doesn’t reflect on the whole community.

And if anyone is feeling generous, maybe they could pledge amounts to help bring the total bounty back up to Kraken’s original 100k. The dev team here is great (fast, clever and approachable) and deserves to be rewarded.

Re: Videos for Feathercoin

Hi All, finally have a video ready for review:

https://vimeo.com/user3823797/review/161581390/5151957582

password: ftc

Hi. Posting this on bitcointalk too for a few old coins. I know the feathercoin crowd is old and should have some good knowledge…here is my copy paste repost from bitcointalk:

**Hi All! I’m creating a master list of the oldest cryptos still in circulation and being traded. Criteria for addition to the list is being listed somewhere on coinmarketcap. Low volume coins are OK, but coin must have a market cap to count.

This list will be featured on a website I will promote. The purpose is to assert the value of older coins. So help is greatly appreciated and can benefit!

I did this myself pretty quickly and I’m sure its full of errors still.

2014 and forward I’m going to leave the list incomplete, but people are welcome to submit their coins and I will add them.

2013 and before I want a hard list fully completed and will update if coins go defunct.

Thanks for having a look!

BTC 3/1/09
NMC 18/4/11
IXC 28/4/11
LTC 9/10/11
BCN 4/7/12
PPC 19/8/12
FLO 18/1/13
QRK 21/1/13
FTC 17/4/13
BTB 3/5/13
FRC 3/5/13
DGC 18/5/13
PXC 20/5/13
WDC 14/5/13
BTG 16/5/13
SXC 28/5/13
MEC 29/5/13
FST 29/5/13
IFC 5/6/13
ANON 7/6/13
ARG 12/6/13
DEV 14/6/13
EMD 17/6/13
GLC 27/6/13
RED 30/6/13
XPM 8/7/13
CSC 18/7/13
ORB 30/7/13
ZETA 4/8/13
XRP 4/8/13
SRC 10/8/13
TGC 6/9/13
TEK 7/9/13
OMNI 9/9/13 (MST)
XJO 22/9/13
BLC 7/10/13
DEM 15/10/13
UNO 18/10/13
TAG 25/10/13
GRC 4/11/13
BTS 5/11/13 (PTS)
DOGE 8/12/13
LOT 12/12/13
EAC 21/12/13
CAT 22/12/13
TIPS 22/12/13
RPC 28/12/13
CAGE 2/1/14
XCP 2/1/14
42 5/1/14
MEOW 5/1/14
PAND 5/1/14
CACH 6/1/14
SMC 6/1/14
NOBL 7/1/14
NYAN 7/1/14
PTC 7/1/14
VTC 8/1/14
USDE 11/1/14
TES 16/1/14
DASH 18/1/14 (DARK)
TIT 20/1/14
DOPE 22/1/14
POT 22/1/14
MRS 27/1/14
HUC 28/1/14
BELA 29/1/14
MAX 29/1/14
CORG 2/2/14
AUR 3/2/14
RIC 3/2/14
MINT 6/2/14
XMY 24/2/14
ZEIT 26/2/14
MAZA 8/3/14**

Hey all, didn’t want to run away with the segwit thread. Not fair. I respect those who want to move that way, but absolutely disagree with it. Sorry.

I propose FTC defines itself as the #1 choice for small scale mining. Given the price moves of alts and btc, I think 2nd phase mass adoption has begun. New ppl are flooding into cryptos. Our goal should be to attract these new people. Having a platform that is very easy and profitable for anyone to start mining would bring in way more people to our network than segwit. At the end of the day its all about how many people you have around your coin.

Work should be done towards that end, not code upgrades like segwit that are ultimately unnecessary. To that end. I have a friend of a friend who has been mining alts for years. I’ve been on him to mine FTC and he finally went for it, but had all sorts of issues getting it started (im no help with tech). I know it works, but ppl always seem to have issues getting started. Something isn’t intuitive. Also, I see very little about mining on the website up front. Love the website, but definitely under “how to start” there should be a mining page too and a download all wallets page. I would think a lot of newcomers want to get started that way, not by buying FTC. Let them get interested however they like, they’ll buy some later.

Any new dummy who is just getting started, still wrapping their head around what a blockchain is, should be able to go to FTC’s website. Download 2 things direct from the website that have installers for their operating systems that enable mining that easy. Then a list of pools and other resources. Update the website tagline to something like “Leading Neoscrypt altcoin anyone can mine”.

If this kind of development was underway, I would definitely donate more to that work.

A coin with a GPU mining philosophy seems a natural fit for gamers. Don’t power down your gaming computer when you sleep, mine some FTC instead since its designed to work with your cards.

Any thoughts on vendors to approach? Maybe game sites already using crypto who could add FTC? Or just a company who makes games. Sorry i don’t know much about gaming, but would be happy to write some emails to give it a shot. Could also be something small to add to the website language somewhere.

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 You and I can do it fairly easily…but for someone who just discovered cryptos and doesn’t even understand the concept of mining or blockchains yet… I just feel there are a ton of those people waiting in the wings, ready to jump into coins that establish themselves as especially newbie friendly. And their mining contribution to the network is secondary, its a gateway toward investment. They will invest in the coins they understand and that speak to them. . . .Foot in the door technique.

And also- What should I do next?

-A video describing POW
-A video about trustless banking, no need for a third party anymore
-A simple how to buy FTC- walk through opening a Bittrex/BTER account basically
-A tutorial on how to mine for beginners
-Videos about FTC’s history…Launch, Neoscript. . . .
-New things to come, plans, roadmap

I’d like to do more, just not sure where to go with it exactly.

Hi I would like to help with FTC marketing. I produce videos professionally. I’ve done educational videos for universities, marketing videos for just about any industry you can think of.

I can handle the entire production (script, voice, video).

Wondering what everyone things about what type of videos Feathercoin needs?

I can do a straight up promo video that quickly points out our strengths like this:
https://vimeo.com/user3823797/review/87464754/171b8b97ea

I can also do quick slideshows to pump upcoming releases.

I was also thinking, if someone more tech savvy than myself could assist, we could do a learning series about the basics of blockchains that has wider appeal (all well branded with FTC of course and posted on feathercoin youtube account).

I do this type of video as well, but haven’t figured out how to apply this to Feathercoin- ideas?
http://www.ivp.org.uk/

Or this kind of thing I could do using stock video, but again not sure how to use it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCVg7gbjGXY

In general though, Ideally I’d like to make a new 15-60 second video for FTC on a regular basis. This would help FTC’s web presence a lot. The hard part is coming up with good reasons to release videos which I’ll need some help with.

Oh and just to be sure, I’m sending FTC to this address to help out Ghostlander right? 733GhostxAXH9DEoTh2SzpcP9xh7CAeURF

Thanks all, look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Best,
Bill

Any plans in the works to deal with this? Doesn’t look like a pool. If other miners can’t find blocks its gonna shrink the network alot no? I know the checkpoint thing keeps the chain safe but long term this needs resolution or people gonna leave…

I agree completely, so much scammy shit out there these days. Coinmarketcap even listing tether now as tho it were a crypto and adding it into market totals. I have nothing against tether, it serves a function, but its not a crypto by any stretch of the imagination. I think the new plan to try and kill decentralization is by rebranding stablecoins as cryptocurrencies. Then we can all go on happily trading markers referring to USD run on a centralized database and pretend we’re doing something.

I’ve thought for years the best way to assert the value of FTC would be to go after atomic swaps in a big way. The coins that can trade decentralized with other coins are going to maintain value best. Of course im not a coder so can’t help with that at all, but i have made donations to FTCs devs in the past and plan to do so again. Probably the best way to make things happen is support the smart people behind the coin and keep them interested.

yea dude is an idiot. Also says ETC is a fork of ETH. Uh, nope, other way around. Im not gonna comment cause i don’t want to give him my traffic.

Haha, yea this is nonsense. How is FTC gone? A 5 min search proves that wrong. Newbies always chasing innovation where there is none. No crypto function can work before store of value is established, and not even Bitcoin has that locked in well enough to be viable yet. . . .First its got to build a stable value, then you build functions on top of that value. And these coins with codes different from BTC can’t benefit from the fact that 95% of all the best development happens on BTC. . . . The combustion engine doesn’t work well enough yet to put in a car, and most projects are working on seat cushions and dingle balls.

@wrapper Was thinking I might mimmick coinmarketcap links directly so website, block explorer, launch ann and then coinmarketcap page as well linked. Maintaining a list of which coins are on which markets is a lot of work, i’ll just link to cmc for that as well who do a great job of it already.

@wrapper Thanks! I’ve got MEC on there near the top. Was it ever proven that Megavideo and Kim Dotcom were behind Megacoin? I always thought it was public knowledge, but looking it up now seems uncertain.

Hi. Posting this on bitcointalk too for a few old coins. I know the feathercoin crowd is old and should have some good knowledge…here is my copy paste repost from bitcointalk:

**Hi All! I’m creating a master list of the oldest cryptos still in circulation and being traded. Criteria for addition to the list is being listed somewhere on coinmarketcap. Low volume coins are OK, but coin must have a market cap to count.

This list will be featured on a website I will promote. The purpose is to assert the value of older coins. So help is greatly appreciated and can benefit!

I did this myself pretty quickly and I’m sure its full of errors still.

2014 and forward I’m going to leave the list incomplete, but people are welcome to submit their coins and I will add them.

2013 and before I want a hard list fully completed and will update if coins go defunct.

Thanks for having a look!

BTC 3/1/09
NMC 18/4/11
IXC 28/4/11
LTC 9/10/11
BCN 4/7/12
PPC 19/8/12
FLO 18/1/13
QRK 21/1/13
FTC 17/4/13
BTB 3/5/13
FRC 3/5/13
DGC 18/5/13
PXC 20/5/13
WDC 14/5/13
BTG 16/5/13
SXC 28/5/13
MEC 29/5/13
FST 29/5/13
IFC 5/6/13
ANON 7/6/13
ARG 12/6/13
DEV 14/6/13
EMD 17/6/13
GLC 27/6/13
RED 30/6/13
XPM 8/7/13
CSC 18/7/13
ORB 30/7/13
ZETA 4/8/13
XRP 4/8/13
SRC 10/8/13
TGC 6/9/13
TEK 7/9/13
OMNI 9/9/13 (MST)
XJO 22/9/13
BLC 7/10/13
DEM 15/10/13
UNO 18/10/13
TAG 25/10/13
GRC 4/11/13
BTS 5/11/13 (PTS)
DOGE 8/12/13
LOT 12/12/13
EAC 21/12/13
CAT 22/12/13
TIPS 22/12/13
RPC 28/12/13
CAGE 2/1/14
XCP 2/1/14
42 5/1/14
MEOW 5/1/14
PAND 5/1/14
CACH 6/1/14
SMC 6/1/14
NOBL 7/1/14
NYAN 7/1/14
PTC 7/1/14
VTC 8/1/14
USDE 11/1/14
TES 16/1/14
DASH 18/1/14 (DARK)
TIT 20/1/14
DOPE 22/1/14
POT 22/1/14
MRS 27/1/14
HUC 28/1/14
BELA 29/1/14
MAX 29/1/14
CORG 2/2/14
AUR 3/2/14
RIC 3/2/14
MINT 6/2/14
XMY 24/2/14
ZEIT 26/2/14
MAZA 8/3/14**

A coin with a GPU mining philosophy seems a natural fit for gamers. Don’t power down your gaming computer when you sleep, mine some FTC instead since its designed to work with your cards.

Any thoughts on vendors to approach? Maybe game sites already using crypto who could add FTC? Or just a company who makes games. Sorry i don’t know much about gaming, but would be happy to write some emails to give it a shot. Could also be something small to add to the website language somewhere.

@Wellenreiter Cool, thats what i thought. ASIC isn’t something i’d want to embrace for FTC either!

@AmDD This is all very true. But at some point as there are fewer and fewer surviving old coins, it’ll make sense for them to try and disable each other. Profitable not directly, but by disabling the “competition”. (or it may appear smart to do so and someone does it, i think these kinds of attacks would hurt trust in all coins tho and be stupid). There are a lot of unpredictable instantly now rich people out there, who knows what they might do.

Or a less nefarious situation. FTC price rises to the point where developing an ASIC miner does make sense. Just wondering if the long term goal is to remain a GPU-minable coin or if ASIC would be embraced?