Feathercoin [FTC]

[thep33t]

Its on the top ...  WELCOME DUDE1234, ACTIVE ACCOUNT: 0.2% POOL FEE

Okay, fair enough.  I agree, and do retract my statements as I said I would.

That being said, it should be much more visible than as a message when someone logs into the pool.

Were you looking for a free pool?  Servers do cost money and I believe a 2% fee is very reasonable.

The only thing I can think of is placing the fee in the 'About' area also?

Using the currently most popular Bitcoin pool as as example, going to www.btcguid.com includes text that is very clear on what to pool fees are:

BTC Guild offers two methods for miners to receive payments. Pay-per-Share (PPS) provides miners with the lowest variance of any pool payment system, at a 5% fee, and Pay-per-Last-N-Shares (PPLNS), at a 3% fee, which has some variance, but also includes block transaction fees.

Once I saw that there was a fee being subtracted from my mining, I really did try to go through the different pages of the pool to find an explanation and could not find one.  I certainly understand a pool does have costs associated to it.  With such a new coin, and the pool as well, I was too quick to come to a point of judgement (shame on me) but I do suggest that stating any and all fees early and often is always a good approach.  The fees you ARE charging do appear to be more than reasonable, given the circumstances.

A 0.2% fee is very low. Cryptocurrency fees are a common thing, so one should expect it. It being on every page you visit, IMHO, is more than enough to justify the miniscule fee.

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[wtman]

We need to try and get on btc-e and vircurex 

[MarKusRomanus]

Feathercoin mining difficulty just jumped from  3.50304097 to 7.76718663

[riku2015]

Feathercoin mining difficulty just jumped from  3.50304097 to 7.76718663

noticed the same :DD alot big rigs ppl are horny mining they getting dif up

[Operatr]

I just put my new mining machine on it, throwing about 900 Khash at it

[MarKusRomanus]

I just put my new mining machine on it, throwing about 900 Khash at it

There is a miner in the one pool with over 36,000 khs  and about 10 miners ther with 10,000+

[maunderingcabal]

I have tried multiple pools, and the shares accepted are very slow. Is this normal? I have 500-600 KHs and it's running like the share difficulty is very high?!

[klenker]

I just put my new mining machine on it, throwing about 900 Khash at it

There is a miner in the one pool with over 36,000 khs  and about 10 miners ther with 10,000+

Indeed, I noticed them appear about the same time the pool started to have connection problems and wouldn't let me connect.

Feels a bit like I was walking in a park picking berries off a tree when along comes a bulldozer and clears up all the trees. lol

[Redjuice]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to solo mine FC.

I've setup my feathercoin.conf file per guides, lauched feathercoin-qt as a server.

I run my cgminer with http://127.0.0.1:8100 with correct -u and -p, hashing at a reasonable rate.

Cgminer shows:

Probing for alive pool
No suitable long-poll found for http://127.0.0.1:8100
New block detected on network (and on and on)

My questions are:

*  Am I now solo mining?
* Do I need to see the "pool 0 alive http://127.0.0.1:8100" in cgminer or doesn't that matter when solo mining?
* Do I need to click on the "start mining" button in the feathercoin-qt mining window? Or can I ignore that completely and just launch cgminer?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: My feathercoin.conf file contains:

server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=miner
rpcpassword=12345
rpcport=8100

[sikman]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to solo mine FC.

I've setup my feathercoin.conf file per guides, lauched feathercoin-qt as a server.

I run my cgminer with http://127.0.0.1:8100 with correct -u and -p, hashing at a reasonable rate.

Cgminer shows:

Probing for alive pool
No suitable long-poll found for http://127.0.0.1:8100
New block detected on network (and on and on)

My questions are:

*  Am I now solo mining?
* Do I need to see the "pool 0 alive http://127.0.0.1:8100" in cgminer or doesn't that matter when solo mining?
* Do I need to click on the "start mining" button in the feathercoin-qt mining window? Or can I ignore that completely and just launch cgminer?

Thanks in advance!

I also have the extact same problem "New block detected on network (and on and on)" using same port and I also opened up port 9336 on my router

[bushstar]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to solo mine FC.

I've setup my feathercoin.conf file per guides, lauched feathercoin-qt as a server.

I run my cgminer with http://127.0.0.1:8100 with correct -u and -p, hashing at a reasonable rate.

Cgminer shows:

Probing for alive pool
No suitable long-poll found for http://127.0.0.1:8100
New block detected on network (and on and on)

My questions are:

*  Am I now solo mining?
* Do I need to see the "pool 0 alive http://127.0.0.1:8100" in cgminer or doesn't that matter when solo mining?
* Do I need to click on the "start mining" button in the feathercoin-qt mining window? Or can I ignore that completely and just launch cgminer?

Thanks in advance!

You are correctly solo mining. The difficulty is high enough that it may take a long time to solve a block. I would suggest joining the pool linked in below to mine.

http://fc.dontmine.me/

Ignore the mining tab in the GUI and use cgminer.

[trinsic]

That's how solo mining works, you don't get shares you get entire blocks and you simply have to wait till you solve a block with no indication of when.

* If cgminer connects then you've basically answered your question as to if you're mining. cgminer wont do anything otherwise.
* If it's dead it wont mine.
* No, that's for CPU mining, just launch cgminer.

New block being detected is normal. The only other command you'll see is an accepted/rejected of the block.

[Redjuice]

Awesome - thanks for the responses guys.

[Redjuice]

You are correctly solo mining. The difficulty is high enough that it may take a long time to solve a block. I would suggest joining the pool linked in below to mine.

http://fc.dontmine.me/

Ignore the mining tab in the GUI and use cgminer.

Quick question on the pool - on the manual cash out option, it says it charges a 0.1 ltc fee. I'm guess typo?

[serge79]

You are correctly solo mining. The difficulty is high enough that it may take a long time to solve a block. I would suggest joining the pool linked in below to mine.

http://fc.dontmine.me/

Ignore the mining tab in the GUI and use cgminer.

Quick question on the pool - on the manual cash out option, it says it charges a 0.1 ltc fee. I'm guess typo?

Yes it is, it's 0.1 FC :-)

I found same amount it's charged by other FC pools. I also found same fee applies in case of very low amount payment from my wallet to another one. (0.03 FC). It says the 0.1 will go to nodes confirming transactions.

[Radacoin]

Feathercoin mining difficulty just jumped from  3.50304097 to 7.76718663

I am solo mining. Why does cgminer report difficulty 509k then?

[psybits]

Guys, for all of us wanting to help setup feathercoin.cc , create a faucet, create bounties, and more I have made us a thread to organise these things: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=181443.0

Let's do it 

Also, I have added a petition to petition BTC-e to add FC:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=181431.0

There is currently a 20 000 FC bounty for the first exchange to support FC

[thep33t]

Feathercoin mining difficulty just jumped from  3.50304097 to 7.76718663

I am solo mining. Why does cgminer report difficulty 509k then?

That shows the average number of difficulty 1 shares required to find a block.

[fundamentals]

Feathercoin mining difficulty just jumped from  3.50304097 to 7.76718663

I am solo mining. Why does cgminer report difficulty 509k then?

cgminer uses a factor of 65536 * difficulty, i.e. 7.7 * 65536 = 509k

[perhan007]

The owner of the FC Simple Pool could start a 51% attack anytime, couldn't he?