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    • Bushstar
      Bushstar last edited by

      Personal Intro

      I thought I would post this here first. I was approached by a couple of dedicated members of UFO Coin to work on their coin. I genuinely like the community members and the coin as I am a fan of the sci-fi genre so I decided to go above and beyond and make the UFO Coin client into a much better, newer and more secure release. It was 0.6 but I have updated them to a 0.8 client with all the bells and whistles and we are hard forking in a couple of weeks’ time to secure the blockchain against attacks. From there we plan to change the hashing algorithm to the newest version of Scrypt called NeoScrypt developed by the excellent Ghostlander. This will use the latest components available and will be a 2014 version of Scrypt, not the very old and broken one used currently. When I say broken I mean by differential analysis which is why we see cheap ASICs coming out without RAM, as it is broken the protection afforded by variable N coins is redundant.

      The idea these guys have is to fund research like SETI with their UFO Coins. I am all for this sort of thing which is why I was drawn to this project. I have volunteered a fair bit of time to upgrade UFO Coin but do not take this as a sign that I am not committed to Feathercoin. First and foremost I am a Feathercoiner, but at the same time I do enjoy helping out other people with their own coins. I believe in the open source ethos which unfortunately is largely overlooked in crypto currency as other coins are seen as competition rather than other projects trying to progress the underlying software.

      Below is a message that has been created by the whole UFO team and which I am posting here now to officially relaunch UFO Coin. There are ambitious plans for UFO Coin and I am happy to stand with this coin and help it reach its goals.

      UFO Coin welcomes Peter Bushnell as lead developer

      We’re excited to announce our new UFO coin team members. though grateful for our legacy contributors. The future is looking bright with the addition of Feathercoin creator Peter Bushnell (bushstar) as the new UFO Lead Developer. In just a few short weeks Peter has steered a technical course for UFO coin, securing it from vulnerabilities plaguing most alt coins. Not only are new wallets available, a new site and shortly we’ll announce release of an innovative hash algo NeoScrypt developed by the Feathercoin development team.

      Technical update

      Peter Bushnell (Bushstar) has taken the UFO client which was based in 0.6 and upgraded it to the 0.8.7.0 codebase which is much more stable and feature rich. There are several changes coming that will help secure the blockchain but a hard fork is required to make these improvements.
      Expect a Hard fork at height 160,997 / 2nd July 2014 with the following enhancements:

      • The retarget solution is going to change to a hardened version of Nite’s Gravity Well, this allows for rapid response to hash rate changes and recovery from high difficulty.
      • Time warp manipulability will be reduced to the point where its effect is negligible.
      • Automatic checkpointing will be set to a low depth, this prevents transaction roll back via 51% attacks. This is vital for any coin that makes good progress as attacks against coins become common at that point.New wallet information

      The clients made available for PC and Mac have features expected in a new release like Coin Control and the ability to run the client without a wallet attached to reduce the memory requirement. There is the normal elements found in the better made wallets, QR code generation for addresses in the wallet, UPNP and IPv6. The expected network infrastructure is in place with dedicated DNS seeders for clients to use to find others on the network and nodes dedicated for network connectivity.

      New available Downloads

      Windows
      Mac
      GitHub Source

      In the coming days we’ll be announcing many key partners and features through our UFO Community forum. Again, sincere thanks to our members, miners, sponsors and anonymous contributors for their continued dedication to the project, we invite all others to participate your help is always welcome.

      UFO Coin Mission statement and Roadmap
      UFO Coin Team Members

      The UFO Team.

      Donate: 6hf9DF8H67ZEoW9KmPJez6BHh4XPNQSCZz

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      • xonar
        xonar Regular Member last edited by

        Hi Bushstar

        What you do is great, the problem is not to give support, but did not receive support if needed. Anyway congratulations for the good work.

        ;)

        Newbies: http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8523/faq-newbie-most-asked-questions-try-here-first

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        • Bushstar
          Bushstar last edited by

          Thanks Xonar, if anyone downloaded the client could they please do so again. Looks like the one on the site was an old version without the NGW fork in it. Something to do with a cache. Direct link is below.

          http://ufocoin.co/wallets/ufo-setup-0.8.7.0.exe

          Donate: 6hf9DF8H67ZEoW9KmPJez6BHh4XPNQSCZz

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            mirrax last edited by

            Great news keeps rolling, to bad exchange is down now.

            I want to buy few UFO’s.

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            • ChekaZ
              ChekaZ last edited by

              Great news keeps rolling, to bad exchange is down now.

              I want to buy few UFO’s.

              Not only you ;)

              BTC: 1Ges1taJ69W7eEMbQLcmNGnUZenBkCnn45
              FTC: 6sxjM96KMZ7t4AmDTUKDZdq82Nj931VQvY

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                prensel Regular Member last edited by

                is there p2pool support for this coin ?

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                • xonar
                  xonar Regular Member last edited by

                  Mining
                  http://www.dutchpool.org

                  Newbies: http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8523/faq-newbie-most-asked-questions-try-here-first

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                  • ChekaZ
                    ChekaZ last edited by

                    Ive setup a pool for this coin:

                    http://ufo.chekazpools.com

                    Regards,

                    ChekaZ

                    BTC: 1Ges1taJ69W7eEMbQLcmNGnUZenBkCnn45
                    FTC: 6sxjM96KMZ7t4AmDTUKDZdq82Nj931VQvY

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                    • xonar
                      xonar Regular Member last edited by

                      Dowloaded the Bushstar ufo wallet, I’m syncing now… connected to only one other peer. :)
                      Really pioneer. :)

                      Newbies: http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8523/faq-newbie-most-asked-questions-try-here-first

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                        prensel Regular Member last edited by

                        can someone supply me the networks.py settings for setting up a p2pool server ?

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                        • Bushstar
                          Bushstar last edited by

                          Not getting that much traction yet on BitcoinTalk.

                          https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=658117.0

                          At least we will have another NeoScrypt buddy when the time comes and it has been a fun project to work on.

                          can someone supply me the networks.py settings for setting up a p2pool server ?

                          I’m not a pool person but what details do you need to make this work?

                          Donate: 6hf9DF8H67ZEoW9KmPJez6BHh4XPNQSCZz

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                          • Wellenreiter
                            Wellenreiter Moderators last edited by

                            Not getting that much traction yet on BitcoinTalk.

                            https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=658117.0

                            At least we will have another NeoScrypt buddy when the time comes and it has been a fun project to work on.

                            I’m not a pool person but what details do you need to make this work?

                            Bushstar, I’ll send you a mail with the feathercoin sections of the p2pool networks.py

                            I think, it should be no big problem for you to adapt it to Ufo

                            Feathercoin development donation address: 6p8u3wtct7uxRGmvWr2xvPxqRzbpbcd82A
                            Openpgp key: 0x385C34E77F0D74D7 (at keyserver.ubuntu.com)/fingerprint: C7B4 E9EA 17E1 3D12 07AB 1FDB 385C 34E7 7F0D 74D7

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                            • Bushstar
                              Bushstar last edited by

                              Seems like someone set up a P2Pool before.

                                  ufo=math.Object(
                                      PARENT=networks.nets['ufo'],
                                      SHARE_PERIOD=15, # seconds target spacing
                                      CHAIN_LENGTH=12*60*60//15, # shares
                                      REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH=12*60*60//15, # shares
                                      TARGET_LOOKBEHIND=20, # shares coinbase maturity
                                      SPREAD=50, # blocks
                                      IDENTIFIER='fc656266636f696e'.decode('hex'),
                                      PREFIX='fe636e696e6c656a'.decode('hex'),
                                      P2P_PORT=18720,
                                      MIN_TARGET=0,
                                      MAX_TARGET=2**256//2**20 - 1,
                                      PERSIST=False,
                                      WORKER_PORT=19720,
                                      BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS='dutchpool.org'.split(' '),
                                      ANNOUNCE_CHANNEL='#p2pool-alt',
                                      VERSION_CHECK=lambda v: True,
                                  )
                              

                              https://github.com/Spekske/p2pool-rav/blob/master/p2pool/networks.py

                              ufo=math.Object(
                              	P2P_PREFIX='fcd9b7dd'.decode('hex'), #pchmessagestart
                              	P2P_PORT=9887,
                              	ADDRESS_VERSION=27, #pubkey_address
                              	RPC_PORT=9888,
                              	RPC_CHECK=defer.inlineCallbacks(lambda bitcoind: defer.returnValue(
                              	'ufo address' in (yield bitcoind.rpc_help()) and
                              	not (yield bitcoind.rpc_getinfo())['testnet']
                              	)),
                              	SUBSIDY_FUNC=lambda height: 5000*100000000,
                              	POW_FUNC=lambda data: pack.IntType(256).unpack(import('ltc_scrypt').getPoWHash(data)),
                              	BLOCK_PERIOD=90, # s
                              	SYMBOL='UFO',
                              	CONF_FILE_FUNC=lambda: os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ['APPDATA'], 'ufo')
                              	if platform.system() == 'Windows' else os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Application Support/ufo/')
                              	if platform.system() == 'Darwin' else os.path.expanduser('~/.ufo'), 'ufo.conf'),
                              	BLOCK_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://cryptexplorer.com/block/',
                              	ADDRESS_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://cryptexplorer.com/address/',
                              	TX_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://cryptexplorer.com/tx/',
                              	SANE_TARGET_RANGE=(2**256//1000000000 - 1, 2**256//1000 - 1),
                              	DUMB_SCRYPT_DIFF=2**16,
                              	DUST_THRESHOLD=0.03e8,
                                  )
                              

                              https://github.com/Spekske/p2pool-rav/blob/master/p2pool/bitcoin/networks.py

                              The thing to note is that these values will change after the upcoming hard fork. I think you need to be ready to change them at the point when the fork goes live.

                              Donate: 6hf9DF8H67ZEoW9KmPJez6BHh4XPNQSCZz

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                              • C
                                ckfree5 last edited by

                                Having a second coin with Neoscrypt that much early makes it even more easier for multipools to add Neoscrypt coins

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                                • wrapper
                                  wrapper Moderators last edited by

                                  Seems like someone set up a P2Pool before.

                                      ufo=math.Object(
                                          PARENT=networks.nets['ufo'],
                                          SHARE_PERIOD=15, # seconds target spacing
                                          CHAIN_LENGTH=12*60*60//15, # shares
                                          REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH=12*60*60//15, # shares
                                          TARGET_LOOKBEHIND=20, # shares coinbase maturity
                                          SPREAD=50, # blocks
                                          IDENTIFIER='fc656266636f696e'.decode('hex'),
                                          PREFIX='fe636e696e6c656a'.decode('hex'),
                                          P2P_PORT=18720,
                                          MIN_TARGET=0,
                                          MAX_TARGET=2**256//2**20 - 1,
                                          PERSIST=False,
                                          WORKER_PORT=19720,
                                          BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS='dutchpool.org'.split(' '),
                                          ANNOUNCE_CHANNEL='#p2pool-alt',
                                          VERSION_CHECK=lambda v: True,
                                      )
                                  

                                  https://github.com/Spekske/p2pool-rav/blob/master/p2pool/networks.py

                                  ufo=math.Object(
                                  	P2P_PREFIX='fcd9b7dd'.decode('hex'), #pchmessagestart
                                  	P2P_PORT=9887,
                                  	ADDRESS_VERSION=27, #pubkey_address
                                  	RPC_PORT=9888,
                                  	RPC_CHECK=defer.inlineCallbacks(lambda bitcoind: defer.returnValue(
                                  	'ufo address' in (yield bitcoind.rpc_help()) and
                                  	not (yield bitcoind.rpc_getinfo())['testnet']
                                  	)),
                                  	SUBSIDY_FUNC=lambda height: 5000*100000000,
                                  	POW_FUNC=lambda data: pack.IntType(256).unpack(import('ltc_scrypt').getPoWHash(data)),
                                  	BLOCK_PERIOD=90, # s
                                  	SYMBOL='UFO',
                                  	CONF_FILE_FUNC=lambda: os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ['APPDATA'], 'ufo')
                                  	if platform.system() == 'Windows' else os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Application Support/ufo/')
                                  	if platform.system() == 'Darwin' else os.path.expanduser('~/.ufo'), 'ufo.conf'),
                                  	BLOCK_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://cryptexplorer.com/block/',
                                  	ADDRESS_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://cryptexplorer.com/address/',
                                  	TX_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://cryptexplorer.com/tx/',
                                  	SANE_TARGET_RANGE=(2**256//1000000000 - 1, 2**256//1000 - 1),
                                  	DUMB_SCRYPT_DIFF=2**16,
                                  	DUST_THRESHOLD=0.03e8,
                                      )
                                  

                                  https://github.com/Spekske/p2pool-rav/blob/master/p2pool/bitcoin/networks.py

                                  The thing to note is that these values will change after the upcoming hard fork. I think you need to be ready to change them at the point when the fork goes live.

                                  There is a worse problems in “changing values” in P2pool settings than the hard fork. There is no easy way to get everyone to upgrade and leave forked p2pools. A lot of p2pool can be private.

                                  I see in February, Dogecoin were proposing adding “meta layer” above p2pool with different pool payout settings (longer stratum times, due to compensate shortened block times) as a solution to the upgrade difficulty.

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                                  • lizhi
                                    lizhi last edited by

                                    Hi Bushstar, I think create a UFO address in FTC wallet. I can accept UFO in FTC wallet with a payment gateway.

                                    Will be able to do it ?

                                    %E6%80%9D%E8%80%83.jpg

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                                    • Wellenreiter
                                      Wellenreiter Moderators last edited by

                                      Hi Lizhi,

                                      I think, the address headers for UFO are different, so a FTC wallet will not allow to import an UFO address.

                                      Feathercoin development donation address: 6p8u3wtct7uxRGmvWr2xvPxqRzbpbcd82A
                                      Openpgp key: 0x385C34E77F0D74D7 (at keyserver.ubuntu.com)/fingerprint: C7B4 E9EA 17E1 3D12 07AB 1FDB 385C 34E7 7F0D 74D7

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                                      • lizhi
                                        lizhi last edited by

                                        I ask other people in NXT forum. We can realize it.

                                        First of all, we want to build a server network, They are gateway. They are responsible for processing deposits and withdrawals.You can send any coin,eg:BTC or NXT. We use gateway client for deposits and withdrawals.Everyone can set up gateway server. Thus, the evolution of the coin, The establishment of a coin applications and trading environment. ^-^

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                                        • xonar
                                          xonar Regular Member last edited by xonar

                                          Hi friends, after months waiting for a ufocoin site, I just revamp my ufocoin page as a little technical site. It’s Not an official site but you can find and download the firsts aids resourses and last wallets. Yes I’m a holder of a little amount of ufocoins. Have a nice use of this page. You are welcome.

                                          Newbies: http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8523/faq-newbie-most-asked-questions-try-here-first

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                                            RIPPEDDRAGON Regular Member @xonar last edited by

                                            @xonar said:

                                            Hi friends, after months waiting for a ufocoin site, I just revamp my ufocoin page as a little technical site. It’s Not an official site but you can find and download the firsts aids resourses and last wallets. Yes I’m a holder of a little amount of ufocoins. Have a nice use of this page. You are welcome.

                                            Nice work!

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