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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

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

@wrapper Thanks! And don’t get me wrong, I very much appreciate the work done on FTC and don’t mean to undermine the effort involved in every step. Making the user end simple is always a ton of work in every industry. Just putting my 2 cents in on where i think time is best spent and what i could do to help.

Thanks so much to Ghostlander for the miners and neoscrypt and all the support, and everyone else. But again, sorry constructive criticism from someone contributing very little- github links are terrifying to newbies. A webpage on the FTC site with on button to download and a description of what to do with the file you downloaded would help new people a lot. Doesn’t require a dev. Just a decent writer and web person.

@tmetaphysical said in SegWit = Space travel door ways:

My vision for FTC:
The Global leader in digital assets management/transactions, period

Don’t get me wrong please, this enthusiasm is terrific and I’m with you in supporting this coin enthusiastically, but I don’t think this is a realistic vision. FTC’s goal should be to maintain relevance within the pack- it’s never going to be coin #1. Never. This is my favourite coin, but no way its going there.

That said. FTCs relevance to the pack has been its profitability to small scale miners. When mass adoption of cryptos happens, that will be an incredible place to be.

I also worry about unforeseen risks with segwit too. It’s a more complicated code. Lets wait and see if LTC, VTC and such have any problems they didn’t expect.

Also. I understand the value of fixing transaction malleability, but is that a relevant problem here and now? Its not causing security issues at this point, the network is secure correct?

Suppose BTC never adopts segwit, but 2 years from now adopts/invents something better. Then what? FTC drops segwit to adopt the new thing instead? Sounds like a mess!

@surfguy72 No doubt man, me too at these prices nearing all time lows. And while Bitcoin is making the $1000 crypto coin a reality…

The simple alt coin strategy that usually works:

1. Only buy into projects that won’t be disappearing any time soon. (History, Devs, Dedicated Community)

2. Buy when they near all time lows against BTC.

@mirrax Got to be. But I think its been undervalued for a while against other coins. It’ll go back down, but I don’t think it’ll lose all of this steam.

@mirrax haha! Thanks Mirrax, that was me who said that on Bitcointalk! We’re on the same page here, good news. :)

Thanks all! No need to offer bounty’s though, I’m an investor and stakeholder. This is to help protect my own investment so just consider me an ally. -send extra FTC to Ghostlander if you’ve got it! haha, thats money best spent.

Great post! Thanks @wrapper

So assume the worst for a minute: someone privately has figured out ASIC mining neoscrypt and is planning a sustained attack?

What’s the contingency plan? I think i remember years back a discussion that if that ever were to happen, the devs would race to put together yet another unique algo to make it ASIC resistant again.

@Wellenreiter Absolutely thanks, shutting down now. And I don’t mind waiting at all, my FTC are a long term investment.