Just found a couple of news articles about Feathercoin that are interesting.
Apparently you can now pay for your parking at Denver airport with Feathercoin from Cryptocoins News
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/105258-2/
and Gizmo times lists Feathercoin as one of the best alternatives to Bitcoin
https://www.gizmotimes.com/lists/the-best-bitcoin-alternatives-list/21375
Good to see Feathercoin popping its head back up.
Definitely worth a tweet if you haven’t already, that was one of the reasons I posted them here
I just thought I would drop buy and wish the Feathercoin Team a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year.
I do still regularly keep an eye on what FTC is doing and I’m still running a node for it.
Keep up the good work.
Tony
Yes I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve still been lurking and keeping an eye on what is going on.
Hi Everyone!
Just thought I should drop by to let you all know I’m still lurking here and do check the forum every few days.
I’m still running my node for FTC and I’m taking this lull in interest in FTC to mine myself some more with the low difficulty FTC.
Tony
110 days works for me, the sooner the supply halves the better.
I wonder if this revelation has caused the buying rush today…
Thanks, I will document the Seiko 5 I’m about to restore after Christmas when the new glass for it arrives, but that one may not go up for sale, but onto my wrist instead.
Yes FTC has paid for a number of my tools, so it only seems fair to give something back.
I’ve not been around for a bit, but Feathercoin has been good to me this year and for the last 2 years I have been taking night classes doing something I have wanted to do for years and that is learning to be a watch maker. (My grandfather, great grandfather and I believe my great great grandfather were all watchmakers).
(Yes I get the irony of being involve in Crypto whilst learning a dying and possibly obsolete trade)
Just wondering if there would be any interest in people here in buying restored and serviced vintage and classic wrist watches with Feathercoin. I’m not talking Omega’s and Rolexes I’m talking Seikos, Bulovas and any one of the many Swiss brands from the 1940s to the 1990s.
What I would sell the watches for is my cost to buy and restore plus a small overhead, well less than what you would pay to have the watch serviced on a high street.
My motivation is more practice for me and something back to others that support Feathercoin and to promote the use of FTC for commerce.
If there is an interest I will start a blog showing the restoration of the watches so people can see what I would sell and go from there.
Thanks Ghost I used your source to compile 0.8.7.3 on my raspberry pi, so I’ve got a node up again, although its currently catching up and probably will be for another day.
It’s compiling at the moment.
After installing sing Raspbian from the 1.8 Noobs on a Rasbperry Pi2 this is what I had to do
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties screen git python-rrdtool python-pygame python-scipy
sudo apt-get install python-twisted python-twisted-web python-imaging build-essential libglib2.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev libboost-all-dev libdb+±dev autoconf automake ncurses-dev
sudo apt-get install libtool libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install qrencode libprotobuf-dev libqrencode-dev
sudo apt-get install libprotoc-dev protobuf-compiler
sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools
wget http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
tar -xzvf db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
cd db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/
…/dist/configure --enable-cxx
make
sudo make install
cd~
git clone -b 0.9.3.1 git://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin.git ftc0931
cd ftc0931
./autogen.sh
./configure --disable-upnp-default --disable-tests --disable-hardening --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf CPPFLAGS=“-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.8/include -O2” LDFLAGS=“-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.8/lib”
make
Hello all.
Long time since I’ve posted here.
Some time ago I started a timeline.
I’ve got a number of events and their dates up to December 2014 already listed on this timeline
here
Feel free to grab the details I entered there
Need a thread to list all the little projects I’ve got on the go and ones I am wanting to do, to help me keep track of them all
Raspberry Pi based Feathercoin Price Ticker
https://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?/topic/7412-raspbery-pi-based-ftc-ticker/
Raspberry Pi based Arcade Payment Device
Raspberry Pi Phoenixcoind (Pi-PXC): A cheap way to add extra nodes to the network
https://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?/topic/7754-pi-pxc/
Raspberry Pi Blockchain Tweeter To be used when Feathercoin announces the hardfork to Neoscrypt, it will tweet a countdown as the block chain approaches the cutover to Neoscrypt
https://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?/topic/7776-raspberry-pi-feathercoin-tweet-bot-to-neoscrypt/
Raspberry PI Feathercoin Full node Create a full node for featehrcoin on a Raspberry Pi
We have a 3d printing “pen” at work now. What’s your thought on those tmuir?
Sorry I missed this post until now.
I’ve never used the 3d printing ‘pens’ but have seen them.
I think they might be fun or of interest for those with artistic ability, to create interesting 3D art, but not sure how practical they are for other things
We did all the testing of the cgminer on PXC after it had change to Neoscrypt rather than the FTC testnet, that way people would still earn coins when testing.
Welcome from Perth Western Australia Estah
Now that the dust has settled on the shift to Neoscrypt and with 0.8.7.1 we have send to QR and import from QR what feature would you like to see next?
If you choose other please expand on it.
My starting point was uncle-muddy’s instructions
Which had suggested to disable hardening.
It’s still chugging through the compiling.
If it compiles I will have another try without disabling hardening and then I will create a new install script to set it up as a node to make life easier for other people
I started discussing this on my thread on the Pi based FTC ticker but have decided to make a new thread for this one as it will take a while to get it fully completed.
I will build it progressively in stages.
Stage 1) Prove code works that can check a FTC balance via the API and turn on a LED for 30 seconds for each FTC deposited into the account.
Stage 2 ) Integrate a display into the Pi that will display the FTC account QR code, so when the Pi is depowered, or unable to connect to the API the QR code is not available so people won’t try and pay for a credit when it wont work.
I plan on using this display from Adafruit http://www.adafruit.com/products/1601
Stage 3) Replace LED with a relay cct which will work for older Electromechanical Pinball machines. (Why?, because I hope to buy one soon)
Stage4) If all goes well and there is interest look at what is required to make it work with modern machines
Once I get the code to a level I’m happy with I will put it up on GitHub.
All code will be written in Python 2.7.8
I’ve been having a bit of play around with python the last few days and put myself together a Raspbery Pi based Feathercoin ‘Ticker’ to display the Feathercoin value in Australian Dollars using the feathercoin API.
It can be easily adapted to other currencies, or to display other information available from the API.
The Raspbery in the photo is my spare Pi, but I plan to put this on my Pi that is running my ASICs as it runs 24 x 7.
The LCD is a cheap 20 x 4 display I got off ebay a while back.
Only downside is it is 5V whilst Raspberry Pi are 3.3V.
I have a Freetronics logic converter on the breadboard so I can connect the disply to the PI safely.
http://www.freetronics.com/collections/modules/products/logic-level-converter-module#.U7eeBLFjEgg
But you can use any logic converters and there are plenty on ebay for just a couple of dollars.
At the moment it is set up every 30 seconds to get the current value of FTC from the API and display it
The low and high values will reset once a week on the beginning of Sunday local time.
The date and time on the bottom is the time it last got the values from the API.
Happy to share the code if anyone is interested, although please be aware this is the first thing I’ve ever coded in python so I’m bound to of done things in the coding that will horrify real coders.
Also does anyone else have a suggestion as to where else I should post this to give greater exposure to Feathercoin?
