Posts made by bsotnikow

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?

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.

Now with a stable BCH out there. FTC can be fine never implementing segwit and stay relevant with Bitcoin upgrades…Anything they do on BTC, they’ll figure out eventually on BCH (and FTC).

@AcidD Awesome thanks. I must be thinking of something else. Following too many coins these days…I want to get some VIVO and TZC too when they hit exchanges that i use. Great to see more neo adoption.

Long live FTC!

Hi All. Supply on coinmarketcap says there are 175 mil FTC. Is that accurate? I thought the number was much lower like closer to 125 mil- at least thats what i seem to remember.

Block explorer issue maybe?

Apologies if i’ve asked this before, seems familiar. At the end of the day if CMC has the wrong supply number than market cap is wrong too which is definitely a problem.

Yea, always been that way too on every coin. The top wallets are exchanges, thats why they have thousands and thousands of transactions. No single investor would have a reason to be moving their funds around constantly.

@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.

Imagine
Cryptos reach mainstream adoption…Joe Anybody goes to the Feathercoin website. He can download a basic wallet, or a mining wallet. The mining wallet has a tab with 2 controls. A red button to start mining and a slider to indicate how much computing power to commit. The software automatically assesses your system to use resources most efficiently, auto-connects to a pool, makes predictions on how much you’ll earn given your resources…Lots of bells and whistles, adaptability for advanced users… But at the end of the day, for wide spread adoption- nothing but a red button and a slider.

VTC did something called a one-click miner. I haven’t tried it, but the name alone is awesome. FTC is a mining coin, my 2 cents is make that primary and work on ease of use.

@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.

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.

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.