It should be around one week on the 22nd May, though I expect we will have a hash power rally when we get a bit nearer

New Client
Feathercoin 0.6.4 has been released and is available from the links below.

There is a mandatory update at block 33,000. After this block old clients will no longer be compatible. All coins and transaction are safe and will be the same in the new client.

At block 33,000 the difficulty was adjusted by 41.4% to help speed up transactions. After this block the difficulty will now adjusted in multiples of 504 making the difficulty adjust four times faster than Litecoin. The difficulty can change by a maximum of 41.4%.

Downloads
GUI Version for Windows - Official Site - Google Drive - Dropbox
GUI Version for Mac OSX 10.6 or later - Official Site - Google Drive - Dropbox
Windows Daemon - Official Site - Google Drive - Dropbox
Source Code - GitHub

Upgrade
Shutdown the client
Download the client from the link above and extract over your existing Feathercoin folder
Start the client
Check the version by going to the Help menu and selecting About Feathercoin
If it shows 0.6.4 you are using the new version

Network stats
Retarget Time and Next difficulty

Pools running Feathercoin 0.6.4
Coinotron
d2 Pool
Dig Feathercoin
FCPool
Feathercoin is a Geek
Featherpool
Give Me FTC
Mining Foreman
We Mine FTC

I think you should add a JSON feed to your site.

The difficulty will be set to change four times faster than Litecoin with a change every 504 blocks and a 41.4% difficulty adjust giving it the same ability to change difficulty over 2016 blocks. This has been a popular solution over at the Feathercoin forum. This change continues Feathercoin's position being four times that of Litecoin like Litecoin is four times that of Bitcoin.

Smaller alts are having to come up with solutions to problem that the bigger coins do not have to worry about. Bitcoin and Litecoin can take a certain amount of hash power for granted. To me this has always been the purpose of alternative cryptocurrencies. The alts have to come up with solutions that could eventually used by others.

Thanks for the reminder. 100FTC has been sent to all entrants.

Could efx and shym please send me their FTC addresses?

Thanks to everyone who took part.

Baus is fixing the typo and will be adding the Feathercoin website address to end of the video

Another excellent entry is below. It was sent to me by efx.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvBDFwrfMC8&feature=youtu.be

Many thanks for all the entries on this thread and the couple by PM. I'm impressed but some of the skill we have here

The winning entry is by Baus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y6GPp1Lsio

Excellent work, I've got to say I like the use of the lines in the logo through out the video.

Please PM me your FTC address and I'll get those Feathers on their way.

People are starting to look at who is behind a coin and how genuine it is. These coins that seem to have nothing behind them will soon be ignored.

There is still 0pticoin and MC2 both of which seem interesting. MC2 is trying out some new features which could one day make it into other coins and 0pticoin gives some rare and epic drops

I agree. The difficulty adjust needs to be quicker for coins that cannot take some hash rate for granted like Bitcoin and Litecoin. We still have 400,000KH but that still makes it a long time till readjust. We are looking to implement a four times quicker difficulty change with 40% maximum difference on difficulty.

What we have here is compromised forum accounts.

There has been quite a few co-ordinated campaigns against some of the newer coins recently. The thing to look at is probably the other coins that have not been subjected to this sort of treatment. It is hard for me to put it all together. I'm spending a lot of my time fire fighting FUD.

Thanks. That makes sense of everything. Unless YAC has hacked your account to say that there was no hack

We do not want to end up like Freicoin being kept at a high difficulty for three months.

There have been changes made to difficulty before has caused problems for coins. Because of this I am asking for peer review from one of the most experienced members of this community. We will only implement a safe change.

A difficulty adjust four times faster than Litecoin continues the four times trend between BTC, LTC and FTC. The difficulty adjust is aimed 40%. This will not bring miners rushing back but would encourage some to mine Feathercoin again. Going this route will allow us to avoid becoming a bubblecoin.

I thought I should mention that it will not go to 27 but to 47. The mining stats page does not have a lower limit which I will get fixed.

Thanks for dropping by TheSwede75

While we are looking at technical solutions some members started a rally and asked others to join in. It seems that some are willing to contribute which really shows some community spirit. It is good to see some people who do not just mine for profit like myself.

Can you PM me the transaction details and your output of getmininginfo?

You have to make one post in the newbie section to be able to post in the rest of the forum. This is to keep the spam bots at bay.

In the middle of all the discussion about changing the difficulty someone with some decent hash power started a hash power rally. So far we have seen a 5.4% increase in hash rate knocking off a day from the retarget time. If anyone wants to participate why not join in the discussion over at the Feathercoin forum in the link below.

http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=364.0

zerodrama pointed out that the give-me-ftc pool pays out on 10 confirmations which saves having to wait for 120 confirmations during these slow transaction times.

https://give-me-ftc.com/

@digger I wonder if this is something that you might be able to implement in your pool?

Feathercoin has an active team and community behind it. There is an update in the link below.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178286.msg2060107#msg2060107

There is a Feathercoin forum available from the link below.

http://forum.feathercoin.com/

Attention should be paid to the above comment. It occurred to me when people started complaining about the difficulty to mine coins on their decent CPUs, that there would be a few who would be setting up CPU farms which is easier than ever to do in this modern age.

Personally I think YAC is excellent as it has made an attempt to keep the GPU miners at bay and therefore allows more people to join in coin generation. How this pans out over time is another matter that I am keenly watching.