\[Superseded by 0.6.4.4\] Feathercoin 0.6.4 - Hard Fork at block 33,000
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I’m happy about the fork for numerous reasons. Obviously the regulation of difficulty swing combined with more frequent retarget will help stave off slow block rates. But here’s the bigger reason.
It seems like too many people out there write off FTC as an also-ran. Countless times I’ve heard people ask “how is it different from Litecoin except there are more of them?”.
Until now the only answers we had were to talk about the awesome developer and the tremendously active community. How fast FTC elevated itself to useful parity with LTC and how we anticipate it being accepted and traded in more places than the coin it was built upon.
But those arguments often fall upon deaf ears. Few out there seem to grasp the value, the necessity of the community to push a cryptocoin’s potential.
So at least now we can trumpet the faster retargets and limited diff change. Those are technical features that can attract the naysayers. Surely some will still write FTC off, but it might be enough to turn heads that would otherwise remain uninterested.
Truly the dev and community are the biggest assets of FTC, but the technicals may act as the hook that reels the doubters into the fold.
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[quote name=“dgiors” post=“5639” timestamp=“1369285917”]
I’m happy about the fork for numerous reasons. Obviously the regulation of difficulty swing combined with more frequent retarget will help stave off slow block rates. But here’s the bigger reason.It seems like too many people out there write off FTC as an also-ran. Countless times I’ve heard people ask “how is it different from Litecoin except there are more of them?”.
Until now the only answers we had were to talk about the awesome developer and the tremendously active community. How fast FTC elevated itself to useful parity with LTC and how we anticipate it being accepted and traded in more places than the coin it was built upon.
But those arguments often fall upon deaf ears. Few out there seem to grasp the value, the necessity of the community to push a cryptocoin’s potential.
So at least now we can trumpet the faster retargets and limited diff change. Those are technical features that can attract the naysayers. Surely some will still write FTC off, but it might be enough to turn heads that would otherwise remain uninterested.
Truly the dev and community are the biggest assets of FTC, but the technicals may act as the hook that reels the doubters into the fold.
[/quote]Justabitoftime JUST BLEW ME AWAY when I saw him on trollbox. I could not believe he was that motivated. Reminded me of early litecoin. The technicals will bring in the miners.
We are 2x what we had just 2 days ago.
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[quote name=“zerodrama” post=“5642” timestamp=“1369288442”]
Justabitoftime JUST BLEW ME AWAY when I saw him on trollbox. I could not believe he was that motivated. Reminded me of early litecoin. The technicals will bring in the miners.
We are 2x what we had just 2 days ago.
[/quote]I love it.
[sycophant]
Allow me to thank the entire team, but most of all Bushstar for taking the long-view. It’s easy to launch a crypto for quick gain, but it’s a labor of love to nurture it for the future. Thanks for taking quick action doing what needed to be done by creating the fork. The BTC reward was a stroke of genius too.
[/sycophant]Kudos to all who stuck with FTC through better and worse.
Now let’s get everybody fired up for the crypto we love best! -
You know why this coin will be a success? Because compared to all the other coins we have [b]such a great community![/b]
Where is the WorldCoin community? Where is the PowerCoin community? Has anyone even seen the creator of CHCNCoin ever again? Vanished after the first day.
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10 blocks to go. hell yeah.
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Wont be long now :D
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Wanted to say thanks to everyone who donated hash power to the network, to Bushstar for the code updates, justabit for the giveaways and all the crap he’s organized and to all others for the stuff they created and put together.
I feel it was time and energy well spent. I had 2 great weeks on this forum while waiting for the fork and I hope we will be around for a lot longer.
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This is our coin, our community. Aside from just the monetary value, I’m so happy to watch where Feathercoin is heading. We have so many creative passionate people that give a #$#@… it matters, it matters so much. When this cryptocoin community seriously booms in the next few years and our parents understand cryptocoins, it’ll be amazing to look back on these times. We helped shape the future… maybe it’s just me, but that really gets me excited to see where we all take it next.
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We’re 3 blocks away!!! EXCITED!!!
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33,000 congrats to everyone :)
disregard miner… aquire beer.
Edit #1: http://stats.feathercoin.com/ seems to be down, “daemon is not available” message.
Edit #2: new diff 133.064 in client? i thought it would be 110 :o -
[quote name=“Pathosverdes3” post=“5795” timestamp=“1369329224”]
33,000 congrats to everyone :)disregard miner… aquire beer.
http://stats.feathercoin.com/ seems to be down, “daemon is not available” message.
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Awesome. Feathercoin miners and supporters are dedicated. -
Great news and great support from the devs to drive this on
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question… how come the difficulty is a bit higher ?
{
“blocks” : 33000,
“currentblocksize” : 0,
“currentblocktx” : 0,
“difficulty” : 133.06387906,
“errors” : “”,
“generate” : false,
“genproclimit” : -1,
“hashespersec” : 0,
“networkhashps” : 280761960,
“pooledtx” : 0,
“testnet” : false
} -
guess its because of many last minut players
that just tried to get the bounty. making the rate go higher then 110? -
We did it. The difficulty is not what we expected and I am going to investigate this. I expect that we might have gotten some serious hashrate on that last block. I’ll let you know in due course but right now I have to run round double checking that everything is working post block 33k.
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I hope everything is ok but it doesn’t seem so… It seems as if everything got stuck at 33001. Any idea whats going on?
Edit: It moved… I really was worried…
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[quote name=“far004” post=“5838” timestamp=“1369333258”]
I hope everything is ok but it doesn’t seem so… It seems as if everything got stuck at 33001. Any idea whats going on?Edit: It moved… I really was worried…
[/quote]It was just a little constipated :D
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[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“5812” timestamp=“1369331522”]
We did it. The difficulty is not what we expected and I am going to investigate this. I expect that we might have gotten some serious hashrate on that last block. I’ll let you know in due course but right now I have to run round double checking that everything is working post block 33k.
[/quote]The client is calculating correctly max multiple 1/1.414x to 1.414x.
The site is predicting 0.586x to 1.414x.
The site code would lead to unstable patterns which could be exploited.
The client code is the correct formula.
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You are correct zerodrama. The stats page was incorrect and I should learn how to use a calculator properly :)
The stats page has now been updated.
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client code uses 99/70 (close to 1.414) as someone noted. but we good now.
