from the dev:

Thanks for your question, yes we had several 3rd party Explorers, however we are working on our own dedicated to the community.  We have found over the years as some of the 3rd party providers tend to pool resources to other coins as the markets fluctuate.   As a result the Explores they hosted on our behalf were either not responding or taken off line.  We hope to have our own dedicated Block Explorer up and running shortly and will communicate to the community once it is up.


btw german translation is wrong. (homepage)


"12 Zweite Blockzeit" should be "12 Sekunden Blockzeit"

hi am thinking of holding fast coin long term but after reading there is a bit of confusion on supply can support tell me what is the max supply of this coin and the current supply

I love the language options on Fastcoin.ca
It would be killer to add Chinese

even better, have a dedicated site just for Chinese crypto fans and buyers?

pm me Cheetah if this sounds good as have a great way to implement

it would also ease adding to btc38
they would gobble up this coin. why ignore a country with 1.4 billion people?

more I think about this, let's do this.

another site, dedicated for CHINA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrfE9I8_hs

This coin is still the fastest and has the longest blockchain. Neither of those things are very useful for the purposes of being a currency, but they are novelties and they are definitely one of a kind. My thoughts are that one of a kind novelties are enough to maintain value, especially if you believe in blockchain tech. I personally think blockchains are the future and any that have been around for a while, used as currency or not, will one day be worth something. Look at Namecoin, its been one of the top market caps for a long time and can serve no purpose as currency. Bitcoin also maintains a much higher value solely from being the first and having the best known name (the ultimate in one of a kind status).

Also. Since Fastcoin has been around now for 2 years, and there isn't really much of a reason to make a faster coin, it would likely never lose its claim on having the longest blockchain provided it can keep a community of miners interested. If someone tried to build hype around a new coin with the intention of building a longer blockchain, they'd have a hell of a time getting people interested, a hell of a time writing something that works properly and it would take many years to catch up...IF one day blockchains are everything and replace traditional currencies space on the longest existing blockchain will be worth money. Its also conceivable that future people could fix problems with the code and/or overcome them with hardware. So IF blockchains succeed and IF Fastcoin survives to see that day, Fastcoin will be worth a fortune.

Just my thoughts. I've been following Fastcoin for years, through the ups and downs. Love the name too, I think that's worth a lot.

Is this still the fastest...or one of the fastest? What makes it so fast?

Thanks

The OP lists a bootstrap but it's very old. Is there a more current bootstrap available?

It's taken me a couple of days to sync from January 2015 to June 2015, so it's probably going to be faster to download a bootstrap...

edit: Sorry, missed the google drive link above. I'll reword my question: is there a bootstrap available that can be downloaded directly to a server? (Google Drive = bzzzt)

Thanks for this information (I have already acquired the latest software and downloaded the blockchain).  If you look at past history of my posts on this thread, you find that my problems of long confirmation times are from a wallet.dat file that was originally part of Cryptsy that was acquired through an auction that a receivership held to liquidate some of the assets of cryptsy - possibly to pay off the claims in the lawsuits.  Fastcoin was one of may wallets that the receivership didn't want to spend time on because there is no easy or cheap way to get the coins out of it or even check on how many coins are in it.  Some of this information wasn't posted above.

I started with wallet version 0.8.7.5 which I compiled on my system because I thought that was the most recent version.  With this version, I made a script to transfer the fastcoins to another address in a different wallet.  I sent out about 300 transactions and only a few actually arrived at their destination - the rest were stuck in the mempool.  Later I found out that there was a 0.10.2.2 wallet and so I started the process all over and used a -zapwallettxes to start up the daemon (which took 4 days to rescan the blockchain).  I was able to send out 2.5 million Fastcoins successfully, but then another 4 million fastcoins were stuck in transit -- meaning that they were never sent (stuck in the mempool) of my client.  After this I did another -zapwallettxes and recovered by stuck coins (took my computer 4 days to do this again).

This time I am transferring out the coins more slowly, waiting on the mempool size to be 0 again, before sending out a few more transactions.  This cryptsy wallet must have been used to receive p2pool mining rewards or something because there is about 322,283 unspent outputs in this wallet.  There are 9,060 addresses.  The address with the most coins is 1 million and has 6,334 deposits to it.  The wallet size itself is about 2.5 to 3 GB.  

Some transactions are confirming within minutes.  Some within hours.  Some haven't confirmed after a day. I have even increased the fees to help and limited the inputs of the transaction to not use any less then 1 Fastcoin.

The debug.log files are not showing much in the way of error messages, so my next task is to add some more logging code to generate more output to find out why the transactions are not being sent to or received by other nodes.  If I run another instance of fastcoin on my machine, it is not seeing the transactions, therefore it makes sense why the miners are not including these transactions.

Perhaps the problem of sending is that these transactions are so large and have so many inputs that a miner doesn't have enough time to verify that it is valid in 12 seconds.  These transactions take like 1 minute to generate on my machine.  Not sure how long it takes to verify the transaction when it is received by other nodes, if it even is.

First of all thanks for the fast and good answer.
I am a bit familiar to the beta vs. vhs thing, ye.
As you mentioned beta was supperior, still failed. Hopefully thats not the future fastcoin will face during
the lack of marketing.

Keenly waiting for more infos concerning the “partnerships“ you mentioned. If you get a good player on board it will be more valuable than a promo video, true thing.
Still some bucks in marketing are never missplaced 😜

Wish you a nice sunday.
Greets Mausi

Does fastcoin have a block explorer?

Some of my transactions are taking hours to confirm.  They are large ones (meaning they contain many inputs).

Does fastcoin have a block explorer?

Some of my transactions are taking hours to confirm.  They are large ones (meaning they contain many inputs).

Video looks ok, music is bad indeed.

I am pretty new in the cryptobusiness and i bought some fastcoins as it seems to be the fastest transaction coin.
Nowadays time is one of the most valuable things therefore i think fastcoin should grow. Now my question: Why isn't it more popular. If it's so much faster than any other crypto why no big players pay attention on this coin?
I really wonder if i missed some disadvantages the coin has beside an 3 year period with sleeping devs.

Greets
Mausi

fastcoin is the fastes because it has 30 second block time, you get the first confirmation after 30 seconds, ethereum has 15 second block but the confimation time is longer, but ethereum and bitcoin will have both raiden and lightining network, these two will make their transaction instant, and the fastest ever among crypto

That is too cool (the hat)
Now the absolute first priority is update the website layout.... no user in the world beyond 1998 would find cool the today's website.
GO GO GO FASTCOIN.... no scandals and still alive after 5 years.
GO dev team!!!

As mentioned above - MAX_MONEY isn't a hard cap, it's used for sanity checking when creating or verifying transactions.

The network money supply, and even a single wallet's balance, can exceed MAX_MONEY. You just won't be able to send more than MAX_MONEY in a single transaction.

FST main.cpp
int64 nSubsidy = 32 * COIN;
nSubsidy >>= (nHeight / 2592000); // Fastcoin: 2,592k blocks in ~6 months

Max money = 32 * 2592000 * 2 = 165888000

Main (by volume) FST market: https://www.livecoin.net/en/trade/orderbook

Thx for the reply.
I can swear I've read that page just 1-2 days ago, in every single window and it DID NOT report that number, but a far lower one.
Some in the 120 Mils or so.
I was checking number because I was looking for my ranking .... .... on the richlist.
Simply said, my 436144.985 FST with fodHpqVWfZdB9FgrGfAXbbkF2Bd3FjsR4F address doesn't show.

So I can conclude the page has some issue.

Is this coin still the fastest?

cant believe this sh#t is still alive