Bitcoin Forum

Bitcoin => Press => Topic started by: ganabb on June 20, 2013, 08:07:45 AM



Title: 2013-06-17 Watch out Bitcoin, Feathercoin wants in on your limelight
Post by: ganabb on June 20, 2013, 08:07:45 AM
http://za.news.yahoo.com/watch-bitcoin-feathercoin-wants-limelight-042040376.html

Initially the popular e-currency, Bitcoin, snuck up on traditional media. Once outlets caught wind of it, though, it seemed to stick. Now, a new player and rightful competitor, makes it’s way onto the stage. Feathercoin an opensource crypto-currency, plans to be the digital currency “without the weight.”



Title: Re: 2013-06-17 Watch out Bitcoin, Feathercoin wants in on your limelight
Post by: Stephen Gornick on June 20, 2013, 08:40:47 AM
Posting today an article from June 3rd?    I don't think this board is lacking in articles lately, ... this one wouldn't have been missed.


Title: Re: 2013-06-17 Watch out Bitcoin, Feathercoin wants in on your limelight
Post by: n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU on June 20, 2013, 03:16:43 PM
I'd guess that having a 51% attack successfully executed against FTC was not quite the "limelight" the article was forecasting:

http://www.coindesk.com/feathercoin-hit-by-massive-attack/


Title: Re: 2013-06-17 Watch out Bitcoin, Feathercoin wants in on your limelight
Post by: TraderTimm on June 20, 2013, 05:19:25 PM
Yeah, good luck feathercoin - you've already shown you're vulnerable and add zero to the existing coins that are way ahead of you.