hello @Debster, i am new here too but have some experance from bitcoin and ethereum.
Welcome.

@wrapper Shapeshift? They had a rouge employee. A security guard. He made off with eth & btc and has not been seen since. It appears that staff at shapshift fel into the bad practice of not locking their terminals when they went to the loo. No customers funds were affected. It was the hot wallet he took

@bluebox any update on FTC in ShapeShift?
Thanks in advance
Warm wishes
Paula

@wrapper , Interesting read. Energy costs are holding crypto back as well as adding to the environmental issue. If we were to incorporate this hard drive method into a pre-existing coin it could massively improve hashing power and it would soon saturate the market to the point, everyone had one. I mean, if I could retro-fit this technology and it increased my hashpower by x4, I would still use all 4 of my GPUs instead of shutting 3 down and getting the same hashpower from one GPU for ¼ of the cost.
But for a new coin or in the form of a fork of an existing coin, cool!
That is, if I have understood it correctly. The reality with such an algorithm would be, you only need a good CPU and a HHD and not a high powered GPU. This may open crypto currency to more users rather than just appealing to gamers, fringe scientists, and computer geeks.

Maybe if we were to cover our GPUs, CPUs and HHDs in Peltier plates and use them as thermoelectric generators for powering cooling fans. The fans could blow air over the cold side of the Peltier plates to help increase the heat differential across the plates. This in conjunction with other heat recovery systems may be the way forward.

I was thinking of making a water heater or coffee machine and power it with a Bitmain AntMiner C1 (water cooled) but my eyesight is not what it was and I have limited funds and care commitments.
Anyhow, maybe in the future our appliances such as washing machines will earn us coin as we wash. That said, I don’t run my tumble dryer since I became a miner. I just put the clotheshorse around my rig to dry our clothes instead. :smile:

thanks wrapper, your cool. thanks for changing thread title.
I’m just going to let it run for a while, as I have loads of washing to do and get dry.
Mining is ideal for that.

I had to restore my machine to the last restore point so when i got it back, my newley installed wallet was gone. So downloaded and ran the wallet again and it now has to reindex (2 yeas & 25 weeks behind).

The address is the same as before so it must have picked up the keystore file ok.
So i got a wait to see my FTC. :grinning:

So i get a payout when we find a block?

I may bring you luck

Warm wishes
Paula.

thanks i have the NSGminer zip
what is the amount of feathercoin that i get for a block reward?
i will look at P2pool as well

Thanks ChekaZ, i need to enter Hash rate (KHash/s) in a feild of the calculator here https://www.feathercoin.com/calc/
Do you know how many KHash/s a HD7870 will make?

Best wishes
Paula

Hi you guys and gals,
I have some HD7870 cards and would like to know what hashrate they would make if i were to mine here? i found the calculater and the wallet. Do people solo or pool mine?

There is a Altcoin that has alrady implemented thisHHD technology called “Burstcoin”
https://web.burst-team.us/

I am currenty mining:
feathercoin with my GPUs (600kh/s)
Groestlcoin with my CPUs (600kh/s)
and…I am in the process of setting up for:
Burstcoin with my HHDs (???k/hs)
Litecoin with my usb ASIC (5Mh/s)

All on the same rig. Hope my 2kw PSU holds out!

Re: Exchanges that trade Feathercoin (FTC)

Are there any current exchanges trading? I found a site called
Bitcoin.co.ltd in Thailand, (the forum will not let me post the address for some reason). Has anyone had dealings? Are they for real?

There is a Altcoin that has alrady implemented thisHHD technology called “Burstcoin”
https://web.burst-team.us/

I am currenty mining:
feathercoin with my GPUs (600kh/s)
Groestlcoin with my CPUs (600kh/s)
and…I am in the process of setting up for:
Burstcoin with my HHDs (???k/hs)
Litecoin with my usb ASIC (5Mh/s)

All on the same rig. Hope my 2kw PSU holds out!

Re: Exchanges that trade Feathercoin (FTC)

Are there any current exchanges trading? I found a site called
Bitcoin.co.ltd in Thailand, (the forum will not let me post the address for some reason). Has anyone had dealings? Are they for real?

@wrapper Good. Heat does not have to be seen as a loss in mining. We just need to be able to utilise it better.

@all Do you think it would be possible to fork feathercoin to Proof-of-Space? Would that be something the community would be interested in? Also, how realistic is this tech from being realised and will we see large mining farms pop up full of hard drives and CPUs?

@wrapper , Interesting read. Energy costs are holding crypto back as well as adding to the environmental issue. If we were to incorporate this hard drive method into a pre-existing coin it could massively improve hashing power and it would soon saturate the market to the point, everyone had one. I mean, if I could retro-fit this technology and it increased my hashpower by x4, I would still use all 4 of my GPUs instead of shutting 3 down and getting the same hashpower from one GPU for ¼ of the cost.
But for a new coin or in the form of a fork of an existing coin, cool!
That is, if I have understood it correctly. The reality with such an algorithm would be, you only need a good CPU and a HHD and not a high powered GPU. This may open crypto currency to more users rather than just appealing to gamers, fringe scientists, and computer geeks.

Maybe if we were to cover our GPUs, CPUs and HHDs in Peltier plates and use them as thermoelectric generators for powering cooling fans. The fans could blow air over the cold side of the Peltier plates to help increase the heat differential across the plates. This in conjunction with other heat recovery systems may be the way forward.

I was thinking of making a water heater or coffee machine and power it with a Bitmain AntMiner C1 (water cooled) but my eyesight is not what it was and I have limited funds and care commitments.
Anyhow, maybe in the future our appliances such as washing machines will earn us coin as we wash. That said, I don’t run my tumble dryer since I became a miner. I just put the clotheshorse around my rig to dry our clothes instead. :smile:

@wrapper
My rig failed-over to https://give-me-coins.com at just past midnight last night. I’m looking at it hashing now and have received 30ftc in 12 hours, is that good?
651 KH/s for 12 hours with 0% invalid shares.

It should have failed back again when http://p2pool.neoscrypt.de:19327/static/ came good.
Maybe the software takes the better pool for my settings. p2pool.neoscrypt.de is still my prioraty pool.

Pinging neoscrypt.de [217.160.170.182] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 217.160.170.182: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.160.170.182: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.160.170.182: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.160.170.182: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 217.160.170.182:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 26ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 26ms

Cornwall to Germany

@wrapper yep

@wrapper, I got loads of CPU and Ram free

@wrapper Low on hard drive space, how big are the files?

Relatively small, it clears over a day as stratum is reached and block go by. I think it is python, I’ll see if I can see

So i need to find a closer pool to me here in Cornwall UK?