[ANN][FEC] ♛ FERRETCOIN ★ NO PREMINE ★ SCRYPT ★ 23 PER BLOCK ★ 123456789 TOTAL

[weav]

✫★✫ SPERAMUS IN CRYPTOMUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO INFANTEM ✫★✫


♛



A Fast, Flexible Coin with Expressly Practical Parameters

And Last but Not Least a Fun Coin



 PARAMETERS & PROTOCOL SPECIFICS:
 
 - scrypt
 - 23 coins per block
 - 123456789 total coins
 - 1.5 minute block targets
 - subsidy halves in 1752k blocks (~5 years)
 - 960 blocks to retarget difficulty (~24 hours)
 - maximum difficulty retarget 123/55 (~+123%) and 55/123 (~-55%) respectively
 - initial nodes are automatically discovered
 - p2p port 33033
 - rpc port 33032

 
 DOWNLOADS:

 LINUX BINARY
 ferretcoin-qt-linux.tar.gz
 https://www.box.com/s/2585iykyaso3szofgsex
 MD5: 588ad7bb09a09a209ff755c39cef20d9
 
 WINDOWS BINARY
 ferretcoin-qt-win.zip
 https://www.box.com/s/oqqtnfl5oq2zyfkpflqb
 MD5: 721ae3107d3435d3513ce60eaba51763

 SOURCE CODE
 https://github.com/ferretcoin/ferretcoin

 INFRASTRUCTURE:

 forum: http://www.altcointalk.co.uk/index.php?board=11.0
 block explorer: http://altcha.in/chain/Ferretcoin

 GIVEAWAY:
 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253690.0

 MORE COMING SOON!


Special Thanks to MaGNeT and Yuki who inspired me for this coin!  



Mining starts now!



GO!

For solo gpu mining put this in your config file (%appdata%\Ferretcoin\ferretcoin.conf on Windows and ~/.ferretcoin/ferretcoin.conf on Linux, create the file if it doesn't exist yet):

Code:

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=set a strong password here
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=33032
port=33033
daemon=1
server=1

Then run your wallet again.

With cgminer for example invoke it as: cgminer.exe --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:33032 -u username -p yourpassword (add hardware specific parameters matching your cards to reach your max hashrate! You can find a comprehensive list of cards with good parameter choices in the config notes here: http://litecoin.info/Mining_Hardware_Comparison)

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[weav]

reserved

[PoolMinor]

Reserved

[zackclark70]

I thought you were joking lol 

[r3wt]

* r3wt gets the popcorn.

[mika1977]

Kidding wright?

[smitemesmith]

Love it

[MaGNeT]

Yuki looks great on a coin

[The_Catman]

* The_Catman doesn't even

[noel]

BASTARD IS JUST TRYING TO MY RABBITCOIN NOT HAPPY 

[amytheplanarshift]

As a ferret lover, I am somewhat intrigued.

[MaGNeT]

Yuki is waiting! 

[daggerismo]

i love the name

[weav]

Sorry fans of ferretcoin,

There is delay due to recent weekend events but I won't let Yuki down!

Launch is scheduled for tomorrow. Stay tuned.

[MaGNeT]

Sorry fans of ferretcoin,

There is delay due to recent weekend events but I won't let Yuki down!

Launch is scheduled for tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Yuki is out for dinner now anyway...

[Hippie Tech]

Coins that promote animal abuse.

Disgusted.

[MaGNeT]

Coins that promote animal abuse.

Disgusted.

What animal is abused by who?

[daggerismo]

Coins that promote animal abuse.

Disgusted.

What animal is abused by who?

an animal abusing to another animal?

[MaGNeT]

Coins that promote animal abuse.

Disgusted.

What animal is abused by who?

an animal abusing to another animal?

The other one (a quail) was dead already.
I'm sure he didn't feel anything of this 

[The_Catman]

Coins that promote animal abuse.

Disgusted.

What animal is abused by who?

I think he means ferret legging as a sport. He's wrong though, seeing as the person gets significantly more abused than the animal, which just gets to run around in some guys pants and nip at his dick for a little while. I imagine the ferret finds it fun, they love running around in tubes and biting things.

[diatonic]

Is this a joke or are you actually releasing?

[Hippie Tech]

Coins that promote animal abuse.

Disgusted.

What animal is abused by who?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret_legging

[zackclark70]

well its been 7 days lol

[iikun]

carnivores eat meat.  ever seen a cat only given vegan food?..now thats abuse!

[The_Catman]

Coins that promote animal abuse.

Disgusted.

What animal is abused by who?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret_legging

I think he means ferret legging as a sport. He's wrong though, seeing as the person gets significantly more abused than the animal, which just gets to run around in some guys pants and nip at his dick for a little while. I imagine the ferret finds it fun, they love running around in tubes and biting things.

[weav]

LAUNCH IS NOW!

[daggerismo]

LAUNCH IS NOW!

rpcport? any node?

[weav]

LAUNCH IS NOW!

rpcport? any node?

sorry only solo right now, rpcport is 33032, p2p port is 33033, updated, sorry

[daggerismo]

LAUNCH IS NOW!

rpcport? any node?

sorry only solo right now, rpcport is 33032, p2p port is 33033, updated, sorry

thanks

[defaced]

ferrets smell so bad lol


good luck?

[iamrickrock]

My Windows QT won't open, sticks at the splash screen. Been 5 minutes now. Quitting.

[eule]

No splash screen here, just a little icon in the taskbar sitting @ 50% cpu.

[frobley]

Searching for genesis block...
nonce 00000000: hash = bb84b8a48db17d7db4e13a9b10eb49b719a8d033160014d0afffeb740cc8a74c (target = 00000ffff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
nonce 00001000: hash = 41da1eec4dd3ac4ab031f049767ef49d5e8718ae583b8d34df7145c48e74d35a (target =

searching... searching...

[weav]

Sorry!   Was only a windows issue, hadn't set the genesis block hash correctly in that code.. Works in Linux!

Recompiling windows-qt now

[smoothie]

the OP made me laugh with the last picture. 

[weav]

I am done already also, nice job OP producing a dead coin at startup. I see you are still logged on.....

LOL it's definitely not dead because of that stupid mistake, the difficulty is still insanely low (<0.0006), the source and linux binary works correctly.. Compiling on windows takes a while :-/ but will upload the new binary immediately once it's finished!

[weav]

I am done already also, nice job OP producing a dead coin at startup. I see you are still logged on.....

LOL it's definitely not dead because of that stupid mistake, the difficulty is still insanely low (<0.0006), the source and linux binary works correctly.. Compiling on windows takes a while :-/ but will upload the new binary immediately once it's finished!

Nice job with the excuse. Good thinking also since 5% of the populace uses linux.

Other coins launch without binaries at all...

[JohnLuc]

what's new with this coin?

[weav]

I am done already also, nice job OP producing a dead coin at startup. I see you are still logged on.....

LOL it's definitely not dead because of that stupid mistake, the difficulty is still insanely low (<0.0006), the source and linux binary works correctly.. Compiling on windows takes a while :-/ but will upload the new binary immediately once it's finished!

Nice job with the excuse. Good thinking also since 5% of the populace uses linux.

Other coins launch without binaries at all...

You are beating a dead horse with this logic of yours.

Not really, but you are welcome to leave There is no premine, I said sorry, and that's about it. Uploading the new binary when it's done.

[weav]

what's new with this coin?

Nothing fundamentally new. Quite useful parameter choice imo.

[Joe_Bauers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX4DJUr5oYg

[weav]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX4DJUr5oYg

  well, quite

[weav]

the difficulty is still insanely low (<0.0006)

the start of a worthless coin, ask anyone who starts a coin at near zero difficulty

like 99% of all altcoins? right

[eule]

nodes, got it running on linux but only one connection?

[weav]

nodes, got it running on linux but only one connection?

There are no other nodes with open (forwarded) ports it seems currently, have to wait for more :-/ Uploading the updated windows wallet now

[eule]

Cause it's so hard to get a VM running...  
edit: Ah great a new Windows wallet soon.

[weav]

New windows wallet!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/n8favk

ANN updated

[weav]

Cause it's so hard to get a VM running...  
edit: Ah great a new Windows wallet soon.

Haha, well a VM is just one node too isn't it?

I'm hoping for more windows wallet nodes now  

[eule]

New wallet works for me. 

[weav]

New wallet works for me. 

phew 

[eule]

75 block giveaway https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253278.0

[baritus]

Phenixcoin was your inspiration? (Avatar )

[weav]

If anybody on windows would be willing to forward port 33033 in their router/firewall so we get more active nodes that would be cool! Such a mess to compile UPNP into the windows version (although that would only affect some routers anyway)..

[weav]

Phenixcoin was your inspiration? (Avatar )

yep 

[daggerismo]

found 13 block.... 8 orphans.... 5 rejected.... :/

[weav]

found 13 block.... 8 orphans.... 5 rejected.... :/

too few/weak nodes yet  :-/

[frobley]

found 28, 37 orphan, 500+ rejected
10 connections

[weav]

considerable percentage of orphans is normal at extremely low difficulties though afaik, probably currently worsened by the shortage of active nodes until more miners join

[daggerismo]

im not happy with this coin.... i try tomorrow if i can find at least 1 block with more people mining

[eule]

Code:


[
{
"addr" : "87.179.18.170:33033",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1373417595,
"lastrecv" : 1373417435,
"conntime" : 1373415725,
"version" : 60001,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.6.4.8/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 0,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "113.162.172.225:33033",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1373417595,
"lastrecv" : 1373417596,
"conntime" : 1373416878,
"version" : 60001,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.6.4.8/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 2795,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "92.139.218.226:33033",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1373417594,
"lastrecv" : 1373417595,
"conntime" : 1373417483,
"version" : 60001,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.6.4.8/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 3279,
"banscore" : 0
}
]

[weav]

considerable percentage of orphans is normal at extremely low difficulties though afaik, probably currently worsened by the shortage of active nodes until more miners join

Here is an idea. Why not post some addnodes in the original post?

because there are currently no more active nodes with open ports and the clients find them anyway

there will be more with time I guess, the coin is just barely two hours old

[weav]

Code:


[
{
"addr" : "87.179.18.170:33033",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1373417595,
"lastrecv" : 1373417435,
"conntime" : 1373415725,
"version" : 60001,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.6.4.8/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 0,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "113.162.172.225:33033",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1373417595,
"lastrecv" : 1373417596,
"conntime" : 1373416878,
"version" : 60001,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.6.4.8/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 2795,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "92.139.218.226:33033",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1373417594,
"lastrecv" : 1373417595,
"conntime" : 1373417483,
"version" : 60001,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.6.4.8/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 3279,
"banscore" : 0
}
]

thanks! now 3

[daggerismo]

25/25 blocks rejected since my last reply.... hope tomorrow things will be better?

[weav]

considerable percentage of orphans is normal at extremely low difficulties though afaik, probably currently worsened by the shortage of active nodes until more miners join

Here is an idea. Why not post some addnodes in the original post?

because there are currently no more active nodes with open ports and the clients find them anyway

there will be more with time I guess, the coin is just barely two hours old

Just offering suggestions to your predicaments. Notice how my tone has changed?

Sure, and I appreciate it I'm kinda stressed out right now 

[weav]

Thanks for this, consider another port from me (port forwarded) now that I can connect to the others.

Code:


[
{
"addr" : "87.179.18.170:33033",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1373417595,
"lastrecv" : 1373417435,
"conntime" : 1373415725,
"version" : 60001,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.6.4.8/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 0,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "113.162.172.225:33033",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1373417595,
"lastrecv" : 1373417596,
"conntime" : 1373416878,
"version" : 60001,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.6.4.8/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 2795,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "92.139.218.226:33033",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1373417594,
"lastrecv" : 1373417595,
"conntime" : 1373417483,
"version" : 60001,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.6.4.8/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 3279,
"banscore" : 0
}
]

considerable percentage of orphans is normal at extremely low difficulties though afaik, probably currently worsened by the shortage of active nodes until more miners join

Here is an idea. Why not post some addnodes in the original post?

because there are currently no more active nodes with open ports and the clients find them anyway

there will be more with time I guess, the coin is just barely two hours old

Just offering suggestions to your predicaments. Notice how my tone has changed?

Sure, and I appreciate it I'm kinda stressed out right now 

Thanks for your hard work, sorry I was under-appreciative before.

Thanks! Really appreciate it

[weav]

I hope the network stabilizes soon with more nodes, I'm getting ridiculously high orphan percentages too

Will continue building the website now

[stevenlam]

Good coin but i'm too late  , diff is 0.01 now

[stevenlam]

joined already, and got no orphans, awesome

[diatonic]

I've added ferretcoin to my big beta block explorer. http://altcha.in/chain/Ferretcoin

Donations/bounty to GRDkFQjJr3czd68ed31xicqTZbissAQV2W

[weav]

I've added ferretcoin to my big beta block explorer. http://altcha.in/chain/Ferretcoin

Donations/bounty to GRDkFQjJr3czd68ed31xicqTZbissAQV2W

Very cool! Thanks, sent you some coins!

[captainfuture]

100% rejected

[weav]

100% rejected

Can't confirm, I'm getting pretty decent accept rates now with the recent difficulty increase to ~0.15. Active nodes are still sparse on the network though

[captainfuture]

sorry. wasnt finished syncing. 

[weav]

sorry. wasnt finished syncing. 

ah alright, cool

[daggerismo]

i re-start mining today about 4 hours ago and got 100% rejected... try with different parameters at cgminer and got all rejected too :/ i think this is not normal.... right?

[diatonic]

I've added ferretcoin to my big beta block explorer. http://altcha.in/chain/Ferretcoin

Donations/bounty to GRDkFQjJr3czd68ed31xicqTZbissAQV2W

Very cool! Thanks, sent you some coins!

Thanks a bunch!

[captainfuture]

wallet is out of sync, i have 3 connections. it doesnt catching up...

[weav]

i re-start mining today about 4 hours ago and got 100% rejected... try with different parameters at cgminer and got all rejected too :/ i think this is not normal.... right?

hm can't confirm, getting consiredably better accept rates now that the difficulty increased more into the ~1 range. what's your hashrate and which parameters are you using?

[captainfuture]

i donwnloaded wallet from OP. is this ok?

[weav]

i donwnloaded wallet from OP. is this ok?

yeah that should work, which version are using, windows, linux, compiled from source?

[captainfuture]

i donwnloaded wallet from OP. is this ok?

yeah that should work, which version are using, windows, linux, compiled from source?

windows

[weav]

i donwnloaded wallet from OP. is this ok?

yeah that should work, which version are using, windows, linux, compiled from source?

windows

syncs for me, you probably just have to wait longer, there are still very few active nodes (3) on the network and they may be quite overloaded, sorry

[captainfuture]

running now stable and got my first coins

[weav]

running now stable and got my first coins

glad it worked out give me your address I will send you some 23 more for the hassle btw a big giveaway is coming soon!

[chris200x9]

chrome says it appears to be malicious

[captainfuture]

Gd27Zn8tXc9mrgLT8edEs2r8r8RF56pPno

thnx

[weav]

chrome says it appears to be malicious

I got that earlier too when I was still hosting on sendspace.com, they sometimes (apparently randomly) replaced my files with a download to their "download accelerator"  (which you could untick, but meh) and Chrome flagged that as suspicious. I changed the hosting to the much more solid looking box.com in the meantime

In general, always verify my MD5 checksums before running things! (on linux simply "md5sum <filename>" in the terminal, alternatively http://onlinemd5.com/ for a platform independent web version)

Please check all the files with virustotal.com or the like! No malware but there might be some false alarms as with other coins

[weav]

Gd27Zn8tXc9mrgLT8edEs2r8r8RF56pPno

thnx

sent!

[captainfuture]

yeah! just saw it! thnx!


So, what can we do now with the coins ? 

[chris200x9]

Can we gpu mine this coin?

[weav]

yeah! just saw it! thnx!


So, what can we do now with the coins ? 

Infrastructure is still in progress I hope the community will accept the coin too and maybe add it to their services

[weav]

Can we gpu mine this coin?

sure, basically the same way you gpu mine litecoin

[weav]

will be off for a few hours, stay tuned for a big FEC giveaway run by zackclark70!  

[chris200x9]

Can we gpu mine this coin?

sure, basically the same way you gpu mine litecoin

it's not working HALP!

[weav]

Can we gpu mine this coin?

sure, basically the same way you gpu mine litecoin

it's not working HALP!

Put this in your config file (%appdata%\Ferretcoin\ferretcoin.conf on windows and ~/.ferretcoin/ferretcoin.conf on linux, create the file if it doesn't exist yet):

Code:

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=strong password here
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=33032
port=33033
daemon=1
server=1

Then run your wallet again.

For solo gpu mining with cgminer for example run it as: cgminer.exe --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:33032 -u username -p yourpassword (add hardware specific parameters matching your cards to reach your max hashrate! look here for a comprehensive list of cards with good parameter choices in the notes http://litecoin.info/Mining_Hardware_Comparison)

[weav]

Giveaway is running!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253690.0

Thanks zackclark70 for managing it!

[zackclark70]

Giveaway is running!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253690.0

Thanks zackclark70 for managing it!

no problem 

[MaGNeT]

Nice low diff coin to mine solo

[fractalbc]

Does anyone have the blockchain for this coin?  My daemon isn't getting anything and I have been idling on irc for a week watching a few folk come, see nothing, and leave.

[MaGNeT]

Yuki says: let's get this coin started! He loves to eat Hamstercoins!

[Thorgrim]

what's up with this coin? is it dead?

[JOSE2014]

My  FERRETCOIN address :

GSgnhTaGaqpQ5cmuh1KDjuyEuvmQ89cXia

Thanks

[trex]

GNBcj6guW3trTeSjWaxd9QZTSgSKMGGQ4C

[weav]

FERRETCOIN IS BACK!


 

Links to the updated binaries and source with improved host discovery and UPNP support in the original post of this thread and also listed below:

DOWNLOADS:

LINUX BINARY
ferretcoin-qt-linux.tar.gz
https://www.box.com/s/2585iykyaso3szofgsex
MD5: 588ad7bb09a09a209ff755c39cef20d9

WINDOWS BINARY
ferretcoin-qt-win.zip
https://www.box.com/s/oqqtnfl5oq2zyfkpflqb
MD5: 721ae3107d3435d3513ce60eaba51763

SOURCE CODE
https://github.com/ferretcoin/ferretcoin

GIVEAWAY
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253690.0


Difficulty is currently still very low, start mining now!  

[frobley]

yaaay return of the ferret, I'll give some hash; 560 block until retarget?
works, well btw 

[weav]

yaaay return of the ferret, I'll give some hash; 560 block until retarget?
works, well btw  

Thanks for the feedback!

Only 960 - (10123 mod 960) = 437 blocks until retarget

[elixir]

can anyone help with gpu mining, i managed to mine with the wallet but am unable to start cgminer.

this is my command line. cgminer --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:33032 -u  -p

.conf has been added, when i star the miner i get.

POOL 0 SLOW/DOWN OR URL OR CREDENTIALS INVALID

using cgminer 3.7.2. . any ideas what ive done wrong

[frobley]

can anyone help with gpu mining, i managed to mine with the wallet but am unable to start cgminer.

this is my command line. cgminer --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:33032 -u  -p

.conf has been added, when i star the miner i get.

POOL 0 SLOW/DOWN OR URL OR CREDENTIALS INVALID

using cgminer 3.7.2. . any ideas what ive done wrong

missing username and password from your .conf file in the command line ->

  cgminer --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:33032 -u yourUSERNAME -p yourPASSWORD

[weav]

can anyone help with gpu mining, i managed to mine with the wallet but am unable to start cgminer.

this is my command line. cgminer --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:33032 -u  -p

.conf has been added, when i star the miner i get.

POOL 0 SLOW/DOWN OR URL OR CREDENTIALS INVALID

using cgminer 3.7.2. . any ideas what ive done wrong

What frobley said.

Also don't forget to close and relaunch your wallet after you made changes to the .conf file. Your wallet has to be running while you are mining with cgminer because cgminer basically connects to your wallet (via the local loopback address 127.0.0.1) using the same protocol as if the wallet was a "pool".

[weav]

hi,

i do have username and password just wasnt sure if i should show it, and ive closed and restarted the wallet then started cgminer but it comes up with the same response. this is exactly what i have.

cgminer --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:33032 -u chicken -p ***********  --worksize 256 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 8192 -g 2 --intensity 12 -Q 0

rpcuser=chicken
rpcpassword=***********
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=33032
port=33033
daemon=1
server=1

do i have to add anything to the mining section in the wallet.

Don't show your password here, we were just making sure you didn't forget to actually specify it. You don't have to add anything to the mining section, your config looks good and should actually work now. But apparently on some systems if you define an allowed IP or IP range in the .conf file via rpcallowip= then it will not actually listen on an ipv4 socket but only on ipv6, and therefore not on 127.0.0.1, see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=165336.0

Try setting rpcallowip=* or even entirely omitting the rpcallowip= setting in the .conf file, but change your password before.

Also double check if you are using the correct .conf file name and location (%appdata%\Ferretcoin\ferretcoin.conf on Windows and ~/.ferretcoin/ferretcoin.conf on Linux).

[MaGNeT]

Yuki says: let's get this coin started! He loves to eat Hamstercoins!

Yuki turns 2 this month He's alive and kickin' !
He thinks it would be nice to see this coin resurrected!