[quote name=“zerodrama” post=“25785” timestamp=“1376764200”]
Also two days to wait for a diff change? seriously? can we stop whining? Bitcoiners wait 2 weeks or so.
[/quote]

+1

[quote]
The real problem here is: People don’t know what they want.
[/quote]

And that’s why we have you, Bushstar and others. And I am thankful for that.
(no sarcasm by the way - I really feel FTC is in good hands with you guys)

P.S.
People [i]do[/i] know what they want. Wealth. Happiness. … mine the best coin there is ;)
People just don’t know [i]how to get there[/i].

[quote name=“Nutnut” post=“11208” timestamp=“1370733321”]
On the other hand… Could be crappy luck. :-\
[/quote]

… maybe not.

Stats from coinotron (all orphaned):

[tt]Block # Solved on Duration Shares Difficulty Payout Status Finder
33615 2013-06-08 23:13:57 1:3:10 11458304 94.0861 364.23 [color=red]Orphan [/color]vivabnet
33610 2013-06-08 22:10:47 0:7:42 2379584 94.0861 75.64 Orphan fishyu
33607 2013-06-08 22:03:05 0:25:46 8099392 94.0861 257.46 Orphan bausoldat
33605 2013-06-08 21:37:19 0:3:1 945280 94.0861 30.05 Orphan bebicao
33604 2013-06-08 21:34:18 0:5:41 1834112 94.0861 58.30 Orphan 888999
33602 2013-06-08 21:28:37 0:17:23 5621952 94.0861 178.71 Orphan hell
33601 2013-06-08 21:11:14 0:6:22 2001728 94.0861 63.63 Orphan Xeno
33600 2013-06-08 21:04:52 0:13:3 4054912 94.0861 128.89 Orphan clangner
33597 2013-06-08 20:51:49 0:7:2 2181824 94.0861 69.35 Orphan w00x
33596 2013-06-08 20:44:47 0:1:40 646080 94.0861 20.54 Orphan deanlikescomi[/tt]

Here I’ll explain how to manually create a so called “paper wallet”.

For those of you that heave not heard about “paper wallets”: A paper wallet is a way to store Feathercoins that involves printing the Feathercoin addresses and private keys directly on a piece of paper. When done properly, paper wallets are one of the safest ways possible to store Feathercoins.

There are various paper wallet generators out there. Mostly for Bitcoin, but also for Alt-Coins.

The thing is:

• Not all are trustworthy.
• You can never be 100% sure that those generators don’t secretly steal your address and private key (hence have full access to your coins).

God news is that you can create a paper wallet all by yourself! All you need to do is to install the Feathercoin client and execute a few commands by hand.

In order to not disturb / corrupt your main Feathercoin installation, you have to install this paper wallet generator in a VM (Virtual Machine).

Here is a step-by-step guide:

1. Download and install FeatherCoin in a VM. (don’t overwrite your existing Feathercoin installation!)
2. Run it and go to the menu Help / Debug window.
3. Click on Console tab.
4. Create a new address by typing getnewaddress.
   -> the result is something like 6p4FJkuV1kkdbNnumVr1JWdQXzeZoAsJjV (note: this is your newly created address)
5. Get the private key for this new address by typing dumpprivkey (and then use the address from step (4) ). For example “dumpprivkey 6p4FJkuV1kkdbNnumVr1JWdQXzeZoAsJjV”.
   -> the result is something like 5KiWCgvxL2s58JAoxUBBUuLzgESRKaRhHhJVvUyi6ZuDUbkBmDe (note: this is the private key for your newly created address)
6. Copy & paste address and private key to your paper wallet document (txt document, word document, whatever you like …).
7. goto 4 and repeat as many times as you need new addresses.
   8 ) After you are finished, uninstall the Feathercoin client from your VM. Note: Make sure the wallet.dat is gone from the AppData/Roaming/Feathercoin directory (because the wallet.dat has all your newly created addresses / private keys - and you only what that information in your paper wallet file).

To transfer Feathercoins to a paper wallet address is as simple as transferring it to any other address.

If you want to access the funds from your paper wallet at some time in the future, simply use the importprivkey command.
Example: “importprivkey 5KiWCgvxL2s58JAoxUBBUuLzgESRKaRhHhJVvUyi6ZuDUbkBmDe”. Once your client us synced again with the network the funds are available instantly.

Hope that helps ;)

cheers,
Radacoin

Wow! Awesome. I really like it!

Maxcoin also uses Kimoto gravity well.
It seems the Maxcoin devs did at least one thing right ;)

[quote name=“ghostlander” post=“57025” timestamp=“1391530778”]
You can make a trivial change such as N from 1024 to 2048, but it also means you have to update and maintain all mining software including pools. Is it worth the effort?
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“all mining software” comes down to cgminer in real life. A modified version is easy to maintain.

And there are already heaps of Vertcoin pools - so that seems to be no problem either.

Man, that could have been us …

In the early days of Feathercoin I proposed *) that we should change from scrypt to a “slightly” modified algorithm - to differentiate from all the others coins. And provide a “slightly” modified version of cgminer so that people could mine our coin.

The code changes would have been minimal.

Now someone has done exactly that: VertCoin

The price is already skyrocketing.

https://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/pair/vtc/btc/coinedup/10-days

*) here:
http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,1657.msg13578.html#msg13578
http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,3403.msg26175.html#msg26175

Our sats page ([url=http://www.feathercoin.com/netstats/]http://www.feathercoin.com/netstats/[/url]) quite frequently stops working. Can this please be fixed?

[quote name=“mirrax” post=“37796” timestamp=“1385797567”]
It was already discussed here:
[url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,4013.msg31130/topicseen.html#msg31130]http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,4013.msg31130/topicseen.html#msg31130[/url]
[/quote]

OK, I did read that thread. Essence is: We did use the code from Sunny King, no?

What about the second “accusation”? Did we really simply copy the Litecoin genesis block?

There are some ugly news spread around regarding Feathercoin. Bushstar, could you please say a few words to that?

“Fueled by the bitcoin buzz in the spring of 2013, feathercoin was created as a [b]direct clone of litecoin[/b]. The creator unfortunately, could not implement the fork properly to get feathercoin off to a good start. The genesis block needs to be unique to feathercoin; however, [b]the genesis block was copied directly from litecoin[/b]. …”
[url=https://coinaxis.com/index.php/entry/competing-crypto-currencies-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-coinaxis]https://coinaxis.com/index.php/entry/competing-crypto-currencies-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-coinaxis[/url]

“From the beginning, [b]this coin has lazily copied from others[/b], and has done nothing innovative. That trend continues to this day. You may remember about 6 weeks ago feathercoin added a “new” feature called Advanced [b]Checkpointing[/b].
It’s a nice feature, sure, but the feathercoin devs aren’t the creators of it. [b]This feature was originally part of PPCoin[/b], and yet, no credit is given. [color=red][b]One must dig around on github to see that Sunny King (PPcoin dev) authored the commit[/b][/color]. There’s no mention of him anywhere in the release post.”
[url=http://cryptolife.net/an-in-depth-look-at-feathercoin-the-coin-that-started-it-all/]http://cryptolife.net/an-in-depth-look-at-feathercoin-the-coin-that-started-it-all/[/url]

[quote name=“Ruthie” post=“37301” timestamp=“1385675040”]
Okay, I found it but had to go through Twitter to get it…lol, [url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,4411.msg34196.html#msg34196]http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,4411.msg34196.html#msg34196[/url]
[/quote]

That is awesome! We should spread this picture around.

Bitcoin is in the news big time. And it seems “the media” loves physical coins, because everywhere I look I see pictures like this in the articles:
[img]http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-531152-breitwandaufmacher-frqm.jpg[/img]

I see no reason why there shouldn’t be pictures of physical Feathercoins ;)

kraken.com is becoming increasingly popular. Unfortunately they have (not yet) Feathercoin listed.

I recommend we contact them and ask them to add Feathercoin:
[url=https://www.kraken.com/about/contact]https://www.kraken.com/about/contact[/url]

(1) I’d like to commit some of my time to marketing activities in Germany. chekaZ inspired my with what he achieved ([url=http://www.dahms-weinversand.de/]http://www.dahms-weinversand.de/[/url] accepting Feathercoin).

(2) imho it would be nice to have a forum called “Marketing Activities”, with subforums. One for “global” and one for each country we have marketing guys in.
What do you think?