Topics created by jti8899

Hi jti899 and welcome to the forum.

There was no fork, if you talk about a blockchain fork.

What happened is, that feathercoin changed it’s hashing algorithm from scrypt to neoscrypt in order to remain ASIC resistant and allow people to mine Feathercoins with ‘standard’ hardware like GPU and CPU without spending a lot of money to buy ASICs.

There has been a group of people who didn’t like that move to Neoscrypt and they created a new coin called ‘Feathercoin classic’ which remained on the Scrypt algorithm.

If you already use the 0.9.6.1 client, you are on the latest production version of the client and all should be fine for you.
If you want to mine again, you may need to update your mining software to allow Neoscrypt for mining.

There are some posts in the mining section which software can be used and how to configure it.

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[quote author=jti8899 link=topic=7426.msg57185#msg57185 date=1391587364]
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Community and aplications.
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Could/would you elaborate on “applications” please?

thanks
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There is lot of applications created by forum members:
FTC Market (with lot of cool FTC projects inside i.e. FTC Vine, Laser Etched wallets, T-Shirts, Stickers,…)
CryptoKnox - online wallet
FTC Games
FTC paper wallet generator
Local Feathercoin map
Lot of great FTC graphics and tutorials
Button generator
LINK

Those are only few examples, I am sure there is much more.
Also what I din’t saw is other coin with such rich weekly newsletters.

But you are right, if you ask what makes FTC algorithm special, than right answer is absolutely nothing.
It is Litecoin fork with changed parameters and ACP added.
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Thanks so much for the input. I would have to say that ACP server needs to be a selling point, after all, though maybe not a perfect solution, and maybe time will create a better one, it does protect feathercoin from 51% attack if I understand it correctly? That is why it was created, feathercoin got attacked, litecoin people wouldn’t help out, and creativity stepped up and wala, we have ACP!

Market place is another good selling feature, but could be overrun easily by someone like ebay just accepting FTC, or BTC for that matter. I still appreciate that feature a ton.

CryptoKnox - online wallet, FTC paper wallet generator are things I need to look closer at could be selling points. Thanks for those suggestions, but I don’t know much about either yet.

Maps, games, graphics, t-shirts and hats and the like would be bullets under Community. Not saying not valid, but none the less bullet points.

So even if the correct answer (at the present) is “It is Litecoin fork with changed parameters and ACP added.” I would rather say:

“Feathercoin is a crypto-currency that utilizes a scrypt based algorithum , similar to litecoin, only with an ACP server added to protect against 51% attacks, built on a foundation of a positive collective effort of like minded individuals, who are constantly striving to improve on every aspect of this innovative new way of exchanging value for value without the need for trusted third parties.”

The whole point of this thread was to get those with detailed knowledge to share, and to inspire all of us to innovate to improve on what has been built. How can we use ideas like ‘open transactions’ to increase adoption of FTC? How can we improve upon the ACP server idea to protect against attacks? How can we improve upon the basic blockchain to integrate new features. . . . and so on.

I am not attacking the idea of a great community, and don’t feel that particular feature needs defending. In fact if it did need defending, it is a doomed deal anyway. Who will stay to support a pack of scammers and bullshitters. FTClover is a great point in case.

It’s just that I read some of the stuff kevlar and others like him write about ideas they are working on and so much just makes me feel as if I am swimming in a ocean of foreign language.

It is this feeling of “I just don’t get it!” that prevents massive adoption. BTC is gaining a lot of ground, because of people starting to say “I don’t get it, BUT I could get really rich so I am in!” This speculation attitude will get some adoption, but it also creates massive volatility. Plus that group of humans are impatient and want the “easy money” which just simply doesn’t exist. They will shortly fall back to “I just don’t get it” and lose interest if their hoped for gains are not realized.

There is a much more important issue being represented here with the rise of the blockchain. Trust doesn’t need to be bought from greedy self centered men and their systems of control any more, it can be embedded into the code. When no one controls that we are all much freer (and retain a great deal more of our personal production).

The advent of crypto currency blockchain has irrevocably changed the world, and my life. The elite have every incentive in the world to attempt to slow and or stop this from becoming widely adopted. The rest of us have the opposite incentive, to propel widespread adoption. To create the understanding of what it is, what it represents, how it works, what it offers and how to easily implement those features into your current reality NOW!

I am the type of person that can sell anything to anyone, with one big IF! If I understand and believe that what I am selling you is in your best interest for you to buy! Needless to say I don’t sell to many things. Help me understand FTC down to the nuts and bolts and I will create compelling promotional material! It’s what I do. Maybe we can start a podcast or integrate into an already existing podcast with applicable audience, let’s talk feathercoin, and explore where we are going, talk about why we decided to use a different blockchain, walk people through the process of learning? hell I don’t know, help me out here. . .

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Glad to be of service ;)

I did ask the Mrs if she wanted to come with me, and the response was “No, I’m working” followed by “enjoy your geek fest” so I got on the train and shot of to Oxford :)

[quote]I am really going to enjoy meeting you if I ever get to your part of the world. You would also always be a welcome guest in the mud hole we call Missouri should you ever come this way. We could talk silly coins for hours while the girls take care of the important things. . . .hahaha[/quote]

And me you mate, I love meeting new people with interests similar to mine, and the internet has made that so much easier these days. I go over to Florida quite a bit as my big bro lives out there, and you gotta drink beer with your bro at least once a year… it’s the law!!

[quote]I like your new rig frame, but the picture of the original is worth more![/quote]

Mate, all my rigs start off the same whilst they are being setup and tweaked. Then they get framed and sent away to be feed and watered by someone else ;)

UM

[quote name=“kojima18” post=“53043” timestamp=“1389996823”]
Congrats on your first rig! a few tips now that you got your feet wet :D

Your RPM per fan is way to high (3600 rpm!). While the temperature is at the range where you want it to be (70), it might be better to use an external fan to make the video card work less hard.

Then when you feel brave, flash a new bios and cut power consumption by 15%

Here something you should aim for :D msg me if you need any help getting to it.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Md9Cgi9.png[/img]

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Well finally found the time to learn to flash my GPU bios’s and undervolt them. First couple attempts I had cgminer crash after they cranked up. I started to low on the voltage. They seem to work fine at 1.125V. Fan rpm down in the 2k range, dropped power tune to 0 on both cards and everything seems to be working great. Lowered the drain at the wall by almost 100watts too. Here is a screen shot of my cgminer numbers after 24 hours non stop hashing o the undervolted setup:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/sjSEvBe.png[/img]

Thanks for the help and advice. Will post pictures of my new rig frames I have been building today too.

peace,
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PS: How do I get cgminer to display the rejects as a % that is pretty cool. Also what do the WU:579.1 /m number tell me??

I’ve seen Max Kaiser quote 700k USD for BTC. I trust what he has to say over a lot of sources. That being said, in all honesty it’s all nothing but speculation, and could never be anything but. The value will be determined by supply as well as what people say it’s worth. As long as more and more stores accept it, and governments legitimize it, it will continue to appreciate in value. All any of these guys are, are analysts. They analyze data and give “their opinion solely”.

That being said, All the coins in a way are tied to BT. If BTC fails chances are the rest of them will as well (If all the way or a good chunk anything else would be pure speculation). That being said. BTC will not be alone as far as ecurrencies go. LTC seems to be the silver of the ‘gold standard’ and (my money is on FTC mostly due to higher adoption and viability as a spendable currency) and another cryptocoin as a bronze that you would likely see being spent more commonly.

If we say it’s worth nothing, then it is. If we say otherwise: well you see where i’m going with this.

Instead of phone calls you should try Skype. Works really well and even provides you with a screen-sharing.

so says the self labeled “Biker” . . .lol

I still ride and have this 85 EVO 4 spd kicker tossed together from piles of parts and never quite finished. Seat is still strapped on with a nylon camping strap lol, but it’s fun!

[img]http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/4039/un9s.png[/img]

Then there is the never ending 99 Soft Tail project I hope to ride before I die, mixed in with the pop can solar collector project, the redesigned rocket stove in the making, the gf’s car with the spun bearings (3 years of trying to explain how oil in the trunk won’t prevent this), the compost operation, the whole collective-effort thing, geo dome greenhouses and local growers produce market (which I just had a epiphany about joining with the feathercoin thing), ohh . . . and now add a feathercoin mining operation. . .never have understood the word “bored”? Conversely I do understand the word “manic” haha

Merry Christmas all
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Well yeah you got me clicking on that image of yours…
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lol clickclick wtf clickclickclick why isnt it working click!

oh its an img lol

[url=http://coinwarz.com]coinwarz.com[/url] for the miners

Also there is this page too: [url=http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator/]http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator/[/url]

I do use them for non tech people when I help them set accounts up and stuff because I know two things:

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[*]It will be memorable for them and they won’t default to something like “Manchester United”!
[*]It will be way better than anything they could come up with given a set of rules
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Definitely. I’ve been selling on the market place and helping other forum members via FTC. This of course will be the key to our success.

You said it. With a bit of practice, one soon realises how beautifully simply transactions can be.

like it

Trouble is a lot of people around Ayn Rand’s time were “eugenics fans”. Hell, that famous bad painter 4chan like to parody (I’m trying to avoid Godwinning this thread) borrowed his ideas from the UK futurists and his speech presentations from the US’s sports stadiums.

Impotent savages might refer to the well suited scammers at the federal reserve, but there was a point Ayn Rand lost the plot between forest and trees and started saying that giving to the disabled is pointless.

jti8899, I love most of what you said above and I didn’t mean to pick on you. Ayn Rand and a lot of other big names got sucked into the New Intellectual Movement of the early 20th century which reduced people to rhetorical cardboard characters (or caricatures). Rand, Bernays, Huxley’s brother Julian, and Skinner all drank the purity / elite Kool-Aid. We call it transhumanism now.

Also, how the flying f* do you manage under $400? and please teach the rest of the class. That’s amazing.

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You’re linking to a web page, not an image. That’s why.

The image at the web page is here: [url=http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/4199/wury.png]http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/4199/wury.png[/url]

And when embedded in a img tag looks like this:

[img]http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/4199/wury.png[/img]

Putting a web page in an image tag won’t work.
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Kevlar,

Thanks a million, that was exactly the answer I was looking for. Now I just need to learn how to uncover the full path to those .jpg files after I upload them?

I have been reading a lot of your stuff, and most of it is difficult for me to fully grasp. Not trying to pump your ego here, but your pretty intelligent guy with a pretty cool skill set and I am glad your apart of Feathercoin. I am grateful that with all the more important things your working on, like the whole file share in the block chain project, you still took the time to answer my simple problem, says a lot and I will be giving you rep for that for sure.

peace
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Yes, there’s no problem with just removing your feathercoin.conf file. The client will start normally without it.

Do NOT remove your wallet.dat file. You will lose your coins that way. They’re in the same directory too, so don’t just delete the directory.

+1 rep!
Will be back in 24 hours to give ya another! Thanks for this post I enjoyed reading it!

[quote name=“jti8899” post=“45625” timestamp=“1387316831”]
Thanks, so I am not the only person in the show me state that has awakened, lol ?? Maybe we can collaborate to get FTC awareness up here?
peace,
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Welcome to Feathercoin!

That would be a great idea. There seems to be a number of Feathercoiners in your state so it would be very interesting to see what you guys could come up with.