Since the demand for FeatherCoins is rising I'd like to see this cryptocurrency on a stable exchange to ease our trading problems.
Some info on FeatherCoin
Feathercoin is a lite version of Litecoin using scrypt as a proof of work scheme.
2.5 minute block targets
subsidy halves in 3360k blocks (~4 years)
~336 million total coins
The rest is the same as bitcoin.
200 coins per block
2016 blocks to retarget difficulty
Main topic
I am releasing FeatherCoin now. I have been working on this for a while and now want to give it go in the big bad world.
This coin is a fork of Litecoin diving back to its 0.6.3 build. I am a supporter of Litecoin and will be following Coblee’s releases. The Litecoin team is working on a newer release and this project will move with them.
The joys of a Litecoin fork, are that we get to use Scrypt and follow a release designed for specifically for it. There are a lot of Bitcoin forks but with the advent of ASIC miners we are starting to see how much havoc they can cause. To give us GPU miners shelter we need Scrypt based coins, as, in my opinion, Litecoin is currently the only valid one. Litecoin being as mature as it is makes it hard to join in the fun so let’s start with a new coin that follows Litecoin’s tradition.
FeatherCoin has a block reward of 200 and will have a total of 336 million coins. This makes it four times that of LiteCoin, this is the same position that LiteCoin was set against BitCoin. There is no private preming of this coin.
This coin is in beta like all cryptocoins.
GUI Version for Windows -
http://www.feathercoin.com/FeatherCoin.zipWindows Daemon -
http://www.feathercoin.com/feathercoind.zipSource Code -
http://www.feathercoin.com/feathercoin-0.6.3.zipGitHub -
https://github.com/FeatherCoin/FeatherCoinDefault port is 9336, forward this port for better connections though it will work without it.
Default RPC port is 9337, this is the port is point your miners towards.
Difficulty changes every 2016 blocks.
Note: The difficulty is still quite low and there is an unexpected amount of hash power so it makes competition for new blocks fierce. To help with this set the expiry variable in cgminer to 1. This sets it to get new work every second instead of the default 120 seconds. Use the following to set expiry to 1.
--expiry 1 or -E 1
Update: The QT GUI has been updated with the correct FeatherCoin taskbar icon. Source code has now be uploaded to GitHub, link is above.
Please sign the petition by posting "Signed." (and a comment) or by going to
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/feathercoin-should-be-on-bigger-exchanges/
