Sure.
Simply start a fantomcoind and launch mining as usual - using start_mining command - throughout the wallet or in daemon.
Note: don't forget to point out the address if you're starting mining in daemon.

Agreed. More F on the top is necessity.

Yeah, I already made a post about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=637261.0

I actually think that's GUI wallet/miner are a little overrated. Yes it will bring more people to the coin but there is a chance (and not a small one) that all this people won't be as qualified as one would like. After all, community is always build around 3-4 leaders with a strong tech background and often forum online. I think we should focus on finding those - or becoming those.

Regarding the payment proving - I agree with you, I highly doubt that such functions are possible and if they were possible how would it effect anonymity.  

EDIT: Forgot to mention Spekulatius version of slogan - I actually really like it. I was thinking that current version is too long and this one is just perfect. "Merge the future, mine FCN."

Thank you! Going to talk to amphibian about implementing it on website. Maybe instead of "1st merged mining cryptonote coin".

sadface recently made a valid point about the huge amount of sock puppets on BitcoinTalk.

I think a lot of people would like to receive the reward for the 1st (and even 2nd/3rd) place and they won't hesitate to use multiple newbie accounts to vote and since I can't restrict poll to something like "Vote only for Member+" I think that dev should make the final decision.

I always open for the ideas tho how to make it more public and open.

Hey boys and girls

Directly to business - since no one is implementing MM in their pool for free I'm putting a bounty on it.

Bounty for the open source pool is 1000 FCN and 0.7 BTC

Seems reasonable enough.

Hello boys and girls

I bring good news. First of all I would like to say you that

There are changes in the Logo contest.

1. New prize pool - 500 FCN and 0.5 BTC
2. Prize pool is splitted between 3 winners - 1st place - 0.25 BTC and 250 FCN, 2nd place - 0.15 BTC and 150 FCN, 3rd place - 0.1 BTC and 100 FCN.
3. Works are being accepted until Friday (just to clarify - all previous works are accepted by default)

On weekend me and amphibian are going to select 3 most awesome looking works and present it to public.

Let the best contender win.

Is there a specific link for coin adding? Couldn't find one.

Thank you for the idea. Tried to fill out the application for it but there must be a logo.

I think I'll raise the reward for the logo to 0.5 BTC. There are a lot of good logo works atm but maybe 0.5 BTC reward will attract more artist (and people in general) to the FCN. I'll surely make announce later today.


Drama was about MRO not wanting to be a merged mining coin. (super short version)

About the Namecoin people - that's a valid idea. Probably going to look into people who were behind initial merged mining release - maybe they will be able to help or at least advice something.

Also, I'm working on a slogan or something like that for a FCN, so far the best I got was: "Merge with the future. Mine FCN." 

Yea, I thought so too but it looks like that merged mining itself was a BIG surprise addition to the Bitcoin and marketing wasn't needed.

I think we should re-introduce MM to the people. Last time it was discussed there was big BCN/MRO drama and people didn't actually learn anything.

Also, I actually wonder if pools are going to change the situation. People seem to be downed after the merged mining drama and think that it's bad but it, surely, isn't.

I’ll try my best. Merged mining is a great feature and hopefully I will be able to deliver it’s greatness to more and more people.

As the first step in marketing campaign (lol) I would like to ask the community it’s opinion: What would you change/introduce in FCN to make it more valuable?

I’ve made a couple of points in that thread but I would love to hear from you.

Hello boys and girls,

As a topic header clearly states I would really love to hear from you about the things in FCN you would change/introduce to make it more valuable/interesting for the masses.

Probably the most popular topic will be the pool.

MM coins are super dependent from their “parents” - at this moment all main coins are being mined _mostly_ on pools. (by regular folks with one-two PC’s at home) And since MM is not implemented in it - FCN struggles.

I know that you’re able to mine FCN like all other coins but then all MM features are going to hell.

Also, I know that MRO folks were agains the MM and they’ve declined the hard fork proposal from TFT, okay, they are the part of the main coins now but still not really supportive of MM. I would really like to hear their points about it since I missed the initial discussion.
Personally, I love the MM idea, yes - difficulty will rise in all networks and you won’t get so much of a profit from it but you will be more protected from the theoretical attacks on the network. Less dependent from big miners that currently control the difficulty and price of all CN coins.

In theory, FCN can be and should be the most difficult the coin to mine but along side with difficulty will come protection from the attacks - it will be the most safe CN coin.

Well, I guess that’s all I wanted to tell you folks.

/discuss

Agreed.

Going to talk to amphibian about the coin marketing since I have plenty of free time atm and it will also free him from the forum.

Looks like LAN configuration is a popular request here. Probably should make an instruction for it.

Guys, wanted to address the pool issue - current difficulty is only 2.3m. There is essentially no need for the pool, if you're not getting much using pool mining of QCN/MRO/BCN you always can solo mine FCN. With 100 h/s it will take you only 6 hours to find a block.

I know that other currencies have slightly bigger exchange rate atm but that's because FCN is so undervalued. Merged mining is a first true tech innovation in CN - no other currency have introduced anything new to the CN except the FCN.  

1. Hashrate, height and diff is all you will get from minerc. As long as you see this data - you're good.
2. This nodes are using your local daemons and they are for BCN (8081) and FCN (24081). If you want to mine FCN with QCN/MRO you should use their ports. (18081 for MRO and 23081 for QCN)

Also, minerc is a tool for solo mining, not pooled mining.

AFAIK there are no pools for FCN yet. So the only possibility for now is to solomine QCN with FCN.

On the 17/18th page wedgy2k was struggling with the LAN config, as far as I know he succeeded in this, try to PM him.