You know what. My onions are burning and i don't have time for you right now. Catcha tomoz.

It's been tested to the craphouse for a start, second of all, no one saw heartbleed coming along (so basically shit happens), third of all, scrypt it self has already been broken anyway.
Plus if you consider that the year is 2014 and cryptos are still in their infancy, every coin including btc should be considered beta.. That's the point of what were doing right? were all trying and testing a network for peer to peer payments? Anyone who thinks that any coin or algo has "stood the test" doesn't really see the big picture.

Please enlighten me as to what litecoin has done in regards to advancing the the technology itself? hrm?

Good luck selling those supposedly "most profitable" scrypt-alts when they don't have the volume to support those dumps... Why do you think that multicoin mining is, theoretically, more profitable then direct mining?

I respect that but to be honest, ftc is not irrelevant.

It's a safe haven for devs who can't get the chance to try out their idea because litecoin and bitcoin have turned into nazi's..

their.. i said it, the n word.. im sorry but i can't deal with people repeating the same stuff over and over when it is simply just flat out false and misleading and even sometimes, strait out lies.

Thank you for bumping our thread though.

How on earth do you quantify that?

99% of the coins out there are stuck in their ways. They have a niche and think that makes them special. Feathercoin takes the best idea's from these niche coins, and creates an open source solution which can be copied into any other coin.

In the coming months will have what's needed on github to implement ftc into http://projectskyhook.com/

Not that we don't all ready have an open source ATM for ftc that any other coin can copy, but more the better right?

We are one of the few coins who will continue to adapt and evolve. btc and ltc have found their place. They are somewhat set in stone and no longer have the true freedom to experiment with the blockchain technology..

tl:dr - So what is the point?

Feathercoin picks up from where Satoshi left off.

Have a flick through our newsletters for the last 8 months.. https://www.feathercoin.com/category/Newsletter/

Or here's a copy and paste of something you might have missed on the other thread you've replied to..

Any idea what's happening with Hive?

@hivewallet - Will our API work with you? http://api.feathercoin.com/

Very well much my friend.

From Point of sales equipment and ATM's to embedding magnet links in our blockchain, and even working with a local council to educate and help them establish their own localised crypto currency.
Feather ATM | Link/Flux | Hull City Council

We're sending a ftc wallet literally to the moon's surface, and raised a ton of money for cancer research.
Ftc to Moon | PCUK

We have created an open source solution for checkpointing and also diff re-targeting that puts all the gravity wells to shame.
ACP | eHRC.

These projects have all been achieved over roughly ftc's first 12 months of life, where we have survived multiple hardforks, a 51% attack and a forum hack.

Endlessly the Feathercoin community has worked with other coins to either help or even in some cases save their coin.

ftc's ethos is that we should all be working together to create the best open source solutions possible.

You just wait and see what else we have planned.. or, come on over to the forum and find out for yourself..

Very nice. Time for me to start wrapping my head around the white paper!


Not sure yet, but considering we won't have to compete with the ASIC's, any speed will be a good speed. From what I've read though, hopefully we should see faster speeds but, once again considering you won't be competing with ASIC's, it doesn't technically matter really.


Anyone who wants to make a name for themselves! The race is on to see who can make the best open source miners!

52 and 47

The first 8 rounds of Salsa have successfully been broken with differential cryptanalysis.
Differential Cryptanalysis of Salsa20/8
New Features of Latin Dances: Analysis of Salsa, ChaCha, and Rumba?

When you think about it, as new as NeoScrypt would be considered, I wouldn't go as far as calling it radical.

It has simply been upgraded and optimised to be faster and more secure.

To be honest (opinion), the "market" is starting to lack innovation. These new myriad of algo's really only achieve one thing. Dodge the ASIC's and show off it's shiny new shoes.. That is not what we're trying to do.

We want ASIC's and FPGA's for NeoScrypt to be developed in time. Preferably open source and at an affordable price for the average miner. In fact, this is the reason why we decided to upgrade and fix scrypt as opposed to mashing together some new xAlgo.

Catch is, everyone needs more time for their gpu farms. By the end of the year, that is it for getting any ROI back, as the Scrypt ASIC's will be in control. NeoScrypt will create a short term safe haven for any coin that still wishes to remain profitable for their loyal miners.

Then when the NeoScrypt ASIC's arrive, ftc will stay but other coins may choose to move on.


Ha!...

No GPU miner, no fork.

Once we see that enough of the major pools are ready for the switch, and the worldwide community is loud and clear that we're ready, then and only then, will the fork occur.



There are a number of individuals working very hard behind the scenes. This has been planned for quite some time now. It has been thoroughly tested, analysed, assessed, modified and re-tested etc.

Phoenixcoin will make the change first. In the coming days, the source will be released. At that point, the code will be open and we highly encourage anyone with the skills necessary to create the first open source GPU miner for NeoScrypt. I can assure who ever achieves this, will be generously compensated.

Come over to the ftc forum and let us continue the work of Satoshi.

Calem

The mixing engine employs both Salsa20/20 and ChaCha20/20 (20 rounds each) XOR'ed into salt for the final PBKDF2 run. They can be run either in series or in parallel to reduce latency (the reference code supports series mode only). N reduced to 128 to maintain high performance, r increased to 2. Requires ~32Kb of memory in series mode or ~64Kb in parallel mode per instance. There is a very little chance that both Salsa20/20 and ChaCha20/20 can be found vulnerable critically in years to come. It takes 1024 Salsa20/20 and 1024 ChaCha20/20 runs as well as 2 FastKDF iterations of 32 BLAKE2s runs each to produce a single hash.