Attention Fastcoin community, faithful pool operators and dedicated miners.

We are still seeing about 1/3rd of Fastcoin's clients on 0.8.5.3. The notification you see in your client about updating to 0.8.7.2 will be removed on Sunday, September 14th. Please make sure to update your clients by the end of the week.

If you have already updated to 0.8.7.2, you can ignore the notification as it is set to expire on the 14th.

Download the updated version (Fastcoin-0.8.7.2) from Sourceforge.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fastcoin/

Also, be sure to check out the P2Pool configuration that's been merged into forrestv's master branch.

https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/blob/master/p2pool/networks/fastcoin.py

P2Pool Block announcements are made in #p2pool-fst on freenode, you can also join the community support and chat in #fastcoin.

Fastcoin recommended settings for P2Pool nodes
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Updated - 3/25/14 - P2Pool Fork - https://github.com/d0gZpAw/p2pool
 
- p2pool/networks.py
 

Code:

),
    fastcoin=math.Object(
        PARENT=networks.nets['fastcoin'],
        SHARE_PERIOD=6, # seconds
        NEW_SHARE_PERIOD=6, # seconds
        CHAIN_LENGTH=24*60*60//10, # shares
        REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH=24*60*60//10, # shares
        TARGET_LOOKBEHIND=60, # shares
        SPREAD=150, # blocks
        NEW_SPREAD=150, # blocks
        IDENTIFIER='9f2e390aa41ffade'.decode('hex'),
        PREFIX='50f713ab040dfade'.decode('hex'),
        P2P_PORT=23660,
        MIN_TARGET=0,
        MAX_TARGET=2**256//2**20 - 1,
        PERSIST=False,
        WORKER_PORT=5150,
        BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS='fst.inetrader.com'.split(' '),
        ANNOUNCE_CHANNEL='#p2pool-fst',
        VERSION_CHECK=lambda v: True,
        VERSION_WARNING=lambda v: 'Upgrade Fastcoin to >= 0.8.5.1!' if v < 70002 else None,
    ),

- p2pool/bitcoin/networks.py
 

Code:

),
    fastcoin=math.Object(
        P2P_PREFIX='fbc0b6db'.decode('hex'),
        P2P_PORT=9526,
        ADDRESS_VERSION=96,
        RPC_PORT=9527,
        RPC_CHECK=defer.inlineCallbacks(lambda bitcoind: defer.returnValue(
            'fastcoinaddress' in (yield bitcoind.rpc_help()) and
            not (yield bitcoind.rpc_getinfo())['testnet']
        )),
        SUBSIDY_FUNC=lambda height: 32*100000000 >> (height + 1)//2592000,
        POW_FUNC=lambda data: pack.IntType(256).unpack(__import__('ltc_scrypt').getPoWHash(data)),
        BLOCK_PERIOD=12, # s
        SYMBOL='FST',
        CONF_FILE_FUNC=lambda: os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ['APPDATA'], 'Fastcoin') if platform.system() == 'Windows' else os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Application Support/Fastcoin/') if platform.system() == 'Darwin' else os.path.expanduser('~/.fastcoin'), 'fastcoin.conf'),
        BLOCK_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://fst.webboise.com/block/',
        ADDRESS_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://fst.webboise.com/address/',
        TX_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://fst.webboise.com/tx/',
        SANE_TARGET_RANGE=(2**256//100000000 - 1, 2**256//1000 - 1),
        DUMB_SCRYPT_DIFF=2**16,
        DUST_THRESHOLD=0.03e8,
    ),