Thank you very much for your kind words. I’m happy it’s all sorted.

Please do post back if you need any further assistance, we are here to help. :)

For me personally.

Feathercoin has long been due a correction upwards. The fact that it was one of the first altcoins with a fucking fast blockchain should speak volumes!

• no Premine
• GPU and CPU mining only - fair distribution
• 60 seconds or less block times on average
• The most amazing and positive community in Crypto. Feathercoin has been through attacks, dark times, trolls and all sorts…and We Are Still Here, Still Standing Strong!
• eHRC and ACP protect us from mining cartels who try to get more than their fair share of Feathercoins
• Blockchain age is over 4 years and proves security and stability, regardless of all the attacks.

Feathercoin works perfectly as a payment network and in my humble opinion - the tech shits all over BTC. Most if not ALL the issues Bitcoin has, have already been solved with Feathercoin in some way.

DEC 2018:
10+ USD (We can hope and pray :-) )

Hi All, test
I’m running a Feathercoin full node and wanted to get more out of it so I decided to set up a Feathercoin Block Explorer + API alongside my node.

If you would like to get your own Feathercoin Core full node up and running, see this guide:
http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8392/guide-build-feathercoind-v0-9-3-1-and-create-a-full-node-on-centos-7-minimal

I’ve set up a block explorer that I’m calling fsight, it’s based off the BitPay-Insight API, but uses Feathercoin.

Home Page: https://fsight.chain.tips
API Page: https://fsight.chain.tips/api

FSight is protected with SSL from LetsEncrypt.org
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=fsight.chain.tips

Project Update Log:
. July 2017
– Added difficulty to homepage
– Updated backend node to v0.9.6.1
. June 2017
– Fsight added to 19800.com
. February 2017
– Updated backend node to v0.9.6
. December 2016
– Uptime and HTTPS monitoring added
– Fixed USD conversion - Now shows correct amounts when USD is selected, Thanks @AmDD !!
– Added to CoinMarketCap.com under “Explorer 2”
– Refreshed colour scheme
– Update to Decode OP_RETURN (coments in Blockchain)
– Added SSL/HTTPS
– Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
. November 2016
– Webserver proxy configuration
. May 2016
– Stability Issues identified - webserver config changes fixed them
. April 2016
– Insight API online
. March 2016
– Originally started with iquidus explorer, and then moved to BitPays Insight-api

To Do/Coming Soon

• Migrate to bigger server instance
• Load/Performance test
• Guide to setup and host your own copy of Fsight Block Explorer + API

Original Post:

Since I’m running my own full node, I figure I may as well put it to good use

http://i.snag.gy/gvvlg.jpg

It’s currently syncing, and I had to re-index my FTC block chain.

So far I think it looks pretty sweet. :-)

This is running on Centos 7 Minimal and I used the iquidus explorer with a few modifications.

Hello Everyone,

Feathercoin v0.9.6 has officially been released!

Feathercoin v0.9.6 Release information.

Feathercoin 0.9.6 has been officially released for the following platforms:

• Windows installers plus standalone packages (32 and 64-bit)
• MacOS (10.9 Mavericks is the minimum you need, tested up to 10.12 Sierra)
• Linux (Most popular distros)

Official Download Links

The official download links for 0.9.6 are below:

Windows and MacOS

https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/releases/tag/v0.9.6

Linux

http://software.opensuse.org/package/feathercoin

Screenshots

You can see some fun screenshots below of the new client in action, these screen shots were taken on Windows 10.

The new loading screen…

The main wallet screen

The multi-sig screen

I’d like to personally thank @Wellenreiter @wrapper @AFB @ghostlander @lizhi @ChekaZ and all the others that worked on the code, website, marketing and anything to help get Feathercoin to where it is…I apologise if I’ve missed anyone from this list.

As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to post on the forums or if you’re a developer or techy who’s spotted an issue, you can raise an issue on the official Feathercoin GitHub here: https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/issues

Thank you for reading, we hope you enjoy the new client.

Hi All,

If you’d like to help the network, get yourself a little Centos7 VPS and create a full node! :-)

The following assumes a new Centos 7 Minimal Installation, and you’ve just logged in as root for the first time.

Upgrade OS Repositories

yum upgrade -y

Add EPEL Repositories

yum install -y epel-release

Install Feathercoin dependencies

yum -y install gcc-c++ libtool make autoconf automake openssl-devel libevent-devel boost-devel libdb4-devel libdb4-cxx-devel which git bzip2 wget

Since Centos 7 comes with a version of OpenSSL that has ECC disabled, we need to build a new version of OpenSSL with ECC enabled. Otherwise FTC wont run and will give you an ssl error on compile

Download, Extract and Build OpenSSL with ECC enabled.

cd /usr/src
wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2k.tar.gz
tar zxvf openssl-1.0.2k.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.2k
export CFLAGS="-fPIC"
./config --prefix=/opt/openssl shared enable-ec enable-ecdh enable-ecdsa
make all -j2
sudo make install -j2

Download, Extract and Build Feathercoin .

cd /usr/src
git clone https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin.git FTC
cd FTC
./autogen.sh
./configure  --disable-shared --without-gui --prefix=/opt/feathercoin PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/openssl/lib/pkgconfig LIBS=-Wl,-rpath,/opt/openssl/lib
make
sudo make install

If you try to run feathercoind now, it will complain about not having a conf file, so we need to create one.
.
.
.

Create blank feathercoin.conf

touch /root/.feathercoin/feathercoin.conf

Edit the conf file

vi /root/.feathercoin/feathercoin.conf

Add an rpc user and a complex password like in the example below.

rpcuser=feathercoinrpc
rpcpassword=HyeZz7WZJwCvYrThisISaComplexPassword7dX7ej1zbTV6s3

.

.

Open up port 9336 so feathercoin can accept connections and help the network

in Centos 7, we now have the awesome firewall-cmd client. which interacts with firewalld

Add port 9336

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=9336/tcp --permanent

Reload load the firewall rules after adding the feathercoin port.

sudo firewall-cmd --reload

You can check your open port with this command.

sudo firewall-cmd --list-all

You should see something like this.

public (default, active)
  interfaces: eth0
  sources:
  services: dhcpv6-client ssh
  ports: 9336/tcp
  masquerade: no
  forward-ports:
  icmp-blocks:
  rich rules:

.

.

You can now start feathercoind to start your node

cd /opt/feathercoin/bin

./feathercoind --server & 

You can check on the status of your node with this command

./feathercoin-cli getnetworkinfo

And you should see something like this:

{
  "version": 160000,
  "subversion": "/Feathercoin:0.16.0/",
  "protocolversion": 70015,
  "localservices": "0000000000000409",
  "localrelay": true,
  "timeoffset": 3,
  "networkactive": true,
  "connections": 8,
  "networks": [
    {
      "name": "ipv4",
      "limited": false,
      "reachable": true,
      "proxy": "",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
    },
    {
      "name": "ipv6",
      "limited": false,
      "reachable": true,
      "proxy": "",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
    },
    {
      "name": "onion",
      "limited": true,
      "reachable": false,
      "proxy": "",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
    }
  ],
  "relayfee": 0.00100000,
  "incrementalfee": 0.00001000,
  "localaddresses": [
    {
      "address": "90.252.127.106",
      "port": 9336,
      "score": 3
    }
  ],
  "warnings": ""
}

.

.

Make feathercoind start on system reboot by creating it as a service

Create the feathercoin service file

touch /etc/systemd/system/feathercoind.service

Edit the file

vi /etc/systemd/system/feathercoind.service

Add this to the file

[Unit]
Description=Feathercoinss distributed currency daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
User=root
Group=root

Type=forking
PIDFile=/root/.feathercoin/feathercoind.pid
ExecStart=/opt/feathercoin/bin/feathercoind -daemon -pid=/root/.feathercoin/feathercoind.pid \
-conf=/root/.feathercoin/feathercoin.conf -datadir=/root/.feathercoin

Restart=always
PrivateTmp=true
TimeoutStopSec=60s
TimeoutStartSec=2s
StartLimitInterval=120s
StartLimitBurst=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

You can now start feathercoind with:

sudo systemctl start feathercoind

Youc an stop feathercoind with this:

sudo systemctl stop feathercoind

And you can check the status with this:

sudo systemctl status feathercoind

Finally, to configure the service to start at boot

sudo systemctl enable feathercoind

Edit 09/05/2018: Updated for version 0.16
Edit: Updated for version v0.9.6

I hope this helps someone. :-)

Today’s volume is over 600K usd. Nice!!!

Exciting Times ahead!

Feathercoins mining reward has been scheduled to halve at block 1,793,041

At time of writing we are at block 1,790,926 which gives us 2115 blocks left or around ~35 Hours.

Time to party!!! :trumpet: :man_dancing_tone3: :man_dancing_tone3: :man_dancing_tone3: :trumpet:

This kind of movement looks like a pump, nothing more. FTC has many whales that pump the coin whenever the hell they like.

having said this, most of the big markets are reporting green atm.

1 - This was a Feathercoin Transaction with only Feathercoin Core installed

2, 3 - These were incoming and outgoing transactions with both Feathercoin and Bitcoin core installed

4, - This was me fucking up my build

5 - This is a transaction with both Bitcoin and Feathercoin Core installed…as you can see, the Feathercoin-QT icon loads

Updates:
Homepage has been updated. I’ve removed the 0.9.6 release announcement and I’ve added “Current Mining Difficulty” to the front page

https://fsight.chain.tips

Hey @addamnorth

This is really your call. you can do a few things but i guess the below is the simplest if you wanted to “own” everything

The FTC client (feathercoin-qt) generates addresses for you. You could do it yourself with an offline secure computer and a local client…you can print out the private and public keys yourself locally and use those. Test with small amounts first and make sure you test recovering your coins :-)

Hello, I’ll ask them to add it

@Bushstar

@Wellenreiter @Bushstar - what do you guys think of the above idea ?

Keeping on topic.

Feathercoin needs to get used… in order for it to get used it needs to be accepted where people will use/spend it.

before we can do any of that I think the team wants to use the cryptowinter to iron issues with the difficulty adjustment algo. EHRC is not really the way forward I dont think…there are better algos out there right now and currently the team are testing some of them.

once our blocktime is at a stable 1 min regardless of wild hashrate fluctuations, I think we’ll have a better chance of getting accepted as a form of payment.

@wellenreiter said in Question or two for the more informed:

@AcidD Is a special BTCPay version for Feathercoin required, or will the ‘standard’ BTCPay sufficient?

So BTCpay works in the way where you clone the official repo and then specify the coin that you want to use. In our case FTC

@kelsey its great to see you around here again.

@j_scheibel BTCPay which now supports FTC should solve all of this for you.

It can also run in a docker container for easy portability

Hi Both! welcome to the forums

@Wellenreiter thanks for starting this thread, it’s an important discussion.

the trigger rule sounds interesting.

Question: Say the xxx minutes = 3. Am I right in understanding that every 3 mins if a block is not found the difficulty will half.

Say the diff is 100. After 3 mins the diff would be 50, if no block is found…after another 3 mins the diff will be 25…if no block is found the diff will be 12.5…and so on ?

Is that correct ?

Holy hell! Feathercoind running on android! Amazing

Well done @Reimelt