I am thinking of getting back into this thing.
Where is it now that cryptsy crapped itself?

Openssl had a change and it causes problems in Bitcoin. The update can invalidate the chain.

Does ftc have that issue? I’d like to update my packages on Linux, but that stops me from doing so.

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[quote author=Bushstar link=topic=363.msg2230#msg2230 date=1368203680]
Let’s talk about difficulty. There are a lot of people who are keen to see a technical change to the way that difficulty is handled. These requests are down to Feathercoin being at a high difficulty compared to the amount of hash power on the network.

One proposal is a difficulty adjust every 504 blocks and at a difference of 40% maximum.

There have been some interesting suggestions put forward that would take more time to implement and test than it would take for us to get out of the current high difficulty. Perhaps the solution is an involved one and will not be seen soon.

Miners are important but there is already a lot of coins in circulation. A dry spell in new coins does not mean the end of the coin. So do not get too worried about this.
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Even if a fix takes longer to implement than this current difficulty spell, what about the next one, or the one after that?

If FTC stays somewhat valuable, this will continue.

I think it is worth investigating fixes -whether or not they get implemented is ultimately up to the populus.

[quote author=zerodrama link=topic=363.msg2270#msg2270 date=1368209712]
the problem is solved. give-me-ltc is the most trusted ltc pool and now give-me-ftc exists.

there is no code change needed. we just needed to make our case.

trust me on this.

send everybody to serraz’s give-me-ftc.com pool. he has anti ddos measures, security measures. not just a fly by night shop.
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How exactly will this fix anything with the difficulty/transfer time. Solo Mine, pool Mine, whatever, diff is still the same. Transactions do not go any faster there vs. any other pool.
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Give me ltc miners are the most dedicated miners you will find and they DO NOT come in here threatening and throwing their weight around. They will switch over to the ftc pool quickly.

We don’t need miners on power trips. We need people who actually care. Serraz’s customers are the best customers.

And serraz’s pool uses 10 confirms not 120.

PR for whom?
The purpose of a forum is to serve the needs of the forum.
That means understanding and preventing BS like UNOCs.
Remember when BTC ppl discussed sketchy crap in secret.
Let’s not be in secret.
@mirrax

cough link cough
@mirrax

Yo da.
@mirrax

We need a new forum, market, localcoin, exchange concept.

We’re guilty of what I call hype stabbing or neon marketing. Having a market, forum, local meet, and exchange doesn’t work if the coin is the main feature rather than a convenience. Some of us want feathercoin to rocket and be money. It won’t be global money, but it can be an alternative to StompCoin (LTC vs DOGE) and Foundation Schmuckery Coin (BTC, tainting, scenario leaks). The function of money for Feathercoin would be to remain independent of the passive progress mentality in most established coins.

We started as a self directed group and we came together to compete with other coins. It’s time we took that idea into another direction. There’s nearly 1000 coins now. Competition is everywhere. We need to stand on different ground now.

Homework assignment: What ordinary everyday forgettable activity supported by fiat would you like to see supported by FTC? Don’t try to impress or dazzle. Pick something that you do frequently or that you enjoy and tell the rest of us about it. Short term projects doable by 4 to 8 people in say a day to a week maximum.

Now with that out of the way: We need to turn the forum into a blog space. Maybe have a custom reddit like environment. The front page would be a digest of things that are happening in the community pulled from the subs.

I imagine four kinds of spaces:

Main forum for tech, community, mutual support, and policy.

Feathercoin supported meta market and projects.

Mutual exchange non-coin supported barter and projects.

Personal or community blog.

I would prefer a loosely knit decentralized system like pump.io with a reddit like feel. Main section would be centralized, feathercoin section would be reddit like but decentralized. Mutual exchange would be a cross between reddit and wordpress also decentralized. Personal or community blogs would have widgets allowing two way interaction between them and the other three parts.

Feathercoin needs to make things easier, but the purpose of a market should be to buy and sell, not promote FTC. Maybe accepting LTC and BTC is a bit scary considering the hostility, but at the very least it should offer a jobs section if FTC will be prominent.

The result will be Bitcoin flying way past.

I have some ideas. These involve things people want.

The hash algo discussion is worth the time though.

I’m the same with reddit. I don’t find it natural to follow.

That’s because the front page is a mess. I know how to fix that. We would have a main section with a dynamic front page.

but not reddit feel please :(

always get lost on reddit and don’t understand the reputation system there.

For me reddit is discouraging to post anything

Reddit reputation system: You get a point every time someone upvotes your post or comment. The numbers are randomized when scores go high or lots of attention happens. This is to discourage fame seeking.

The reddit feel means you can create your own community easily.

PR for whom?
The purpose of a forum is to serve the needs of the forum.
That means understanding and preventing BS like UNOCs.
Remember when BTC ppl discussed sketchy crap in secret.
Let’s not be in secret.
@mirrax

Also Orwellian.
@mirrax

Factom is a prettier version of Link
@mirrax

cough link cough
@mirrax

Yo da.
@mirrax

I am thinking of getting back into this thing.
Where is it now that cryptsy crapped itself?

yeah but we still a cleanup on isle 5. I imagine everything still points to ‘Bitcoin’ instead of ‘Feathercoin’. The UI updates are nice but as noticed, only the windows exe made it to .9.5, not the master branch. The master branch is still missing the UI changes. There is a lot of cleanup to do with bitcoin branding that was left behind with feathercoin master branch.What work Ive done, Ive lost with recent backup failures. I am in need of GitHub WRITE access. Furthermore we have a FREEDOM issue here that has recently been brought to my attention.

Although Debian and UBUNTU both use SSL, namely OPENSSL, it has one fatal flaw: current implementation is NON-FREE as distributed.

Fedora team have made changes to FREE it, however, these changes remove the code we need to function.(Elliptic curves)

Several Bitcoin-esque projects are affected, as they ALL use openSSL.

Noted HERE: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1581297 and HERE: http://mikeminneman.com/2013/12/getting-dogecoind-to-run-on-centos/

The CentOS pactch doesnt seem to make any changes. However, it is noted that there is further work to be done on HARDENING as noted in this patch:

https://github.com/weex/bitcoind-centos/blob/master/makefile.new. Current version with Fedora is 1.0.1k (pull from 22, 21 sources are broken).

Ive noticed severe DATA LOSS occuring on Debian systems with Jessie. UBUNTU introduces bugs that shouldnt be. I cant use either as a result.Looks like Im rebuilding OPENSSL…EDIT: NO GO. EPIC FAIL. I dunno how to proceed now. Bitcoin team uses a static version of openssl included with thier app, so does litecoin. Perhaps we should follow suit.

ALSO:

Packages for Feathercoin for Fedora(and Im sure others) are missing the qt wallet client.This is a HUGE oversight. We need to include both the daemon AND the client.Please repack.

It’s not a license issue.

It’s a patent issue.

Use it.

And if Certicom does something nasty, start a riot.

so delete:

if(ECDSA_verify(…

…

return false

and add:

bool CKey::Verify(…

…

return ret

}

is that right?

ok so 102c is safe? or does it require changes to code?

The team didn’t check that issue.

Do you have a link to the description available?

Feathercoin uses the openssl libraries as Bitcoin does, so there is a risk, that the same issues will occur.

If you have a static build of the feathercoin wallet, you should be safe, as the libraries are compiled into the program.

If you compiled the wallet to dynamically load the libraries at run time, the risk is given.

This is from 5 months ago: Openssl bump by theuni Â* Pull Request #5634 Â* bitcoin/bitcoin Â* GitHub