[FZ] Frozen | NoPremine | CPU-Mining | Rare

New Official Site
http://www.fzcoin.cc/

New Official Forum
http://www.frozentalk.org

Sources
https://github.com/fzcoin/frozencoin

Binary distributions of Frozen v1.1.0.8
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux x86-64, Linux i686 32bit, Older releases

Reddit FrozenCoin
http://www.reddit.com/r/FrozenCoin

facebook FrozenCoinFz
https://www.facebook.com/FrozenCoinFz

International sites and social networks:

冰河币中国站 (Chinese Site)
http://www.fzcoin.org/

Элeктpoннaя вaлютa Frozen Coin (vk)
http://vk.com/frozencoin

QUICK START

Run a wallet
Download a binary wallet and start frozen-qt. That's all!

Get some coins
Check from time to time if you find an open giveaway opportunity (see below).
Check the conditions of the thread-starter (if any) and hope that the donor is as fast as Frozen!

Additional nodes *NEW*
You should not need to bother about additional nodes in your Frozen configuration "frozen.conf"
at all, but to be prepared for possible bad-luck-situations find here some entries. If you ever have
constant problems to synchronize the block chain, please stop your Frozen-client, delete your
peer.dat, add the lines below to your frozen.conf and restart your client. Here the additional nodes:
# Sponsored by BitcoinFX (FZ: FNgbr3u4Xew9LfATmk4FxuC63NvNMogY34):
addnode=46.19.143.137
addnode=46.19.143.141
addnode=46.19.139.232

GIVEAWAYS

Frozen is not premined, therefore there is no premine "giveaway pool".
In the past some community members were giving away their own FZ (mined our bought) in giveaway threads.
Some threads aren't closed but the donor fails to payout. Please make a note in the thread and let me know.
To make the life of the donors easier it would be helpful if you edit your post (like: "Received, thanks!") if you got your FZs.

Giveaway threads and faucets (open + alive):

Frozen Giveaway (join frozentalk.org)
Get some coins from Koningkaas' Freezer! (Frozen faucet)

Contests (open + alive):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412571 (700 FZ Poetry contest. Donors: trenton81, Frozen Donation Pool)

Giveaways (closed or no longer supported):

~~https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412125.0~~ closed 2014/01/16
(Benezivas thread, donors: Benezivas, KoningKaas, trenton81, TheFourthSaint, led_lcd)
~~https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=400785.0~~
~~https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=390118.0~~
~~https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=394139.0~~
~~https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=384893.0~~
~~https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=380863.0~~
~~https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=366745.380~~

CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTION

Frozen at Cryptsy *NEW Support Ticket*
If you want Frozen traded at Cryptsy please support also the *new* support ticket

Frozen at Cryptsy *OLD* support ticket

If you have some FZ coins to spare please consider to create some giveaway-thread
at frozentalk.org. If you do please let me know, so I can update the list at the end of this post

Looking for addnodes!
If you've got a reliable machine with a dedicated IP-4 address and some networking bandwidth
it would be great if you run frozend with server=1 and listen=1 on it and let me know. I would add
it as an additional node via "addnode=a.b.c.d" in the sample frozen.conf

[POLL] Fun voting on allcrypt.com *NEW*

Translate www.fzcoin.cc:
LasersGoPew @ frozentalk.org started an initiative to Translate The Frozen Site.
We have so far German, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish.
It would be cool if you can add a new language or help to verify and improve the translations

Frozen is a coin originally based on the hashing concept of the QUARK coin
The total number of Frozen coins (FZ) is much lower in comparison: only 7,777,777 FZ. This is about 1/32th of QRK!!
(It is still under discussion to add an inflation, like e.g. 1% per year)
The coin is very good suited to be mined with CPUs. At the current difficulty > 2000 you will probably have best results with a pool
As of this writing there are about 97,000 blocks mined, making a volume of about 4,340,000 FZ (about 55.8% of the total coin supply)
The block reward is quickly dropping until it vanishes. If you want to mine FZ: a sooner, a better

CORE SPECIFICATIONS

FAST BLOCK GENERATION
by average one block each 30 seconds

MULTIPLE-STEP HASHING
the hashes are generated with a random hashing sequence,
relying on 6 hashing functions

LIMITED COIN SUPPLY
There will be no more than 7,777,777 FZ available at all! (*)

(*) INFLATION
to be decided, currently not foreseen.
There may be an inflation of about 1% per year after block 1,691,867.
The community will vote about the inflation in time.

DECREASING BLOCK REWARD
The mining subsidy is quickly declining and will drop to zero at block 1,691,868.
Miners get the transaction fees.

PORTS
P2P-Port: 18451, default RPC port: 18450

BLOCK REWARD (SUBSIDY)

Since block 77,778 the block reward is decreasing each 120 blocks (about each hour).
The last block to contain a block reward will be block 1,691,867, afterwards mining
will live from the transaction fees. The community might vote to introduce an
inflation for the time after. The amount discussed at the moment would relate to a
minimum block reward of 0,075 FZ, which yields about 1% inflation measured against
the maximum of 7,777,777 coins.

Find below a table and a graph showing the development of the block reward.
Please note that "Days since launch" is an estimation, based on an average of
one block per 30 seconds.

Block	Reward (FZ)	*Days since launch()**	Comment
1	1000	0	Block 1 with bigger reward for the original Dev. Not clear, what these coins were used for.
2 .. 77,777	50.0	0 .. 27	From block 2 on the reward was 50 FZ
77,778 .. 167,057	25.0 .. 10.0	27 .. 58	Block reward drops each 120 blocks. Until block 167,057 it declines from 25 FZ to 10 FZ.
167,058 .. 253,457	10 .. 5.0	58 .. 87	Block reward drops stepwise from 10 FZ to 5 FZ
253,458 .. 604,817	5 .. 1.80	87 .. 210	Block reward drops stepwise from 5 FZ to 1.80 FZ
604,818 .. 1,048,497	1.80 .. 0.075	210 .. 364	Block reward drops stepwise from 1.8 FZ to 0.075 FZ
1,048,498 .. 1,691,866	0.075	364 .. 560	About 650,000 blocks with a constant payout of 0,075 FZ
1,691,867	0.10900	560	The last block with a reward yields 0,1090 FZ. Total amount issued: 7,777,777 FZ
1,691,868 .. infinity	0.0	560 .. infinity	From block 1,691,868 on the block reward is zero

(*) Estimated, based on an average of 30 seconds per block.

MORE SPECIFICATIONS (may be adapted in future)

BLOCK MATURITY: A mined block matures after 260 blocks (at the most)

Frozen can be mined with the same miners as Quark.

CPU-Mining:

Quarkcoin-CPU-Miner from Neisklar: https://github.com/Neisklar/quarkcoin-cpuminer

Code:

minerd -a quark -o http://your-frozen-qt-ip:rcpport/ -u rpcusername -p rpcpassword --no-stratum --no-longpoll

GPU-Mining:

There is to my knowledge no GPU miner for Frozen available, at the moment!

There is a closed source software named "Smelter" ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=310975.0 ) which is originally
designed for Quark. Besides from some drawbacks (12.5% fee for each block, limited GPU support, no pool mining support)
the main problem seems to be, that it does not generate valid blocks for Frozen.

Sample frozen.conf:

If you want to run the frozend-daemon which gives access to RPC commands you should install a frozen.conf file.
Make sure the file is not world-readable - your frozen installation needs only reading access.
A basic frozen.conf could look like this:

Code:

rpcuser=frozenrpc
rpcpassword=replaceThisWithALongPasswordWithSomeDigits

Some further advanced options for frozen.conf:

Machines with little network bandwidth may prefer to reduce the number of maximum connections, e.g.: maxconnections=20
If you're running a daemon please restrict the RPC network access to the minimum you need. Use a star "*" as a wildcard. For a local-only installation this might be: rpcallowip=127.0.0.1

#1 Pool (biggest pool at the moment)
http://www.coinmine.pl/fz/

#2 Stratum Pool (give it a try if you have some medium/big hashpower)
http://stratum.mine-pool.net/fz/

#3 Pool
http://frz.smalltimeminer.com/

#4 Pool
http://fz.mine-pool.net

#5 Pool
http://fz.forkpool.com/

#6 SG1 | 冰河币矿池 FZ矿池 (Chinese pool, support thread)
http://fz.sg1.com.cn:10001/static/

CoinedUp.com (Altcoin Exchange, still without fees!)
https://coinedup.com

Poloniex *NEW*
Please share your experiences with the exchange in this thread
https://poloniex.com/

Cryptorush *NEW*
Please share your experiences with the exchange in this thread
https://www.cryptorush.in/

Guoao.com (Chinese Altcoin Exchange)
http://www.guogao.com/

beedui.com (Chinese Altcoin Exchange)
I don't know the reputation and quality of the site and would be glad about your feedback!
http://beedui.com/

easecoin.com (Chinese Altcoin Exchange)
I don't know the reputation and quality of the site and would be glad about your feedback!
https://www.easecoin.com/

BlockCrawler (FZ: FQEamgLxAwwff91s6LgfyH91LajSgR5Q8g)
http://frozen.kvvs.nl/

Blockchain-Explorer (Abe, FZ : FP7Xntdur7YFqyC4n8cWvUiLrzUGbapeei)
http://frozen.blockchainexplorer.co.uk/

PaperWallet (FZ: FARTs4FZF98dFEwyPEXtjuSvDVpyJxfhMw)
http://vanity.kvvs.nl (was originall hosted at http://frozenaddress.org/)

Gambling
http://fzdice.com - Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=382230.msg4106693#msg4106693

HISTORY

The coin Frozen was originally started by Block_Erupter, his original announcement is from December 11, 2013, 06:48:27 AM.
In parallel he was engaging in a different project named "Shares", in which he admittedly tried to steal the
investors money. He refunded the biggest part now, it stays to hope that the remaining investors are refunded
very soon as well. Block_Erupter is no longer part of the Frozen Community.

The Frozen community took over the progress of this great coin.
Frozen was a fair coin from the beginning on, and the continuation and support of the coin is made certain.
You are very welcome to join as a user or as contributor!

The Frozen Snowflake was created by the user Tonza from bitcointalk.org. It was the winning submission in a logo contest.

Frozen News Digests: #2, #1

HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE

We are glad about all kind of support, input and help!
If you have ideas the best way is to discuss them first on FrozenTalk.org to make sure you are in sync with everybody else.
Contributions can come from all kind of areas are highly welcome! For your inspiration:

Advertisement and Design: spread the word of Frozen, improve the appearance of the wallet, ...
Coin exchanges: help to make Frozen a choice at the coin exchanges
Ideas for new features, discussion of bugs and missing functionalities
If you want to improve the sources directly please make a fork on github and send a pull request. The devs (currently only me) will evaluate and include it.
For the techniques of github forks refer to the documentation at: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo
Finally, a very good place for donations is the Donation Pool of TheFourSaint's: FKEt7AJGPBgjiq3SsXKxEihTjVWn69Bxyz
To be mentioned as donor please post in the thread / PM TheFourthSaint. If you prefer to stay anonymous simply send some coins.

PS:

Please use this thread as a the new official Frozen information thread.
Though I've been writing carefully I'm sure I missed something and I'm sure I made errors here or there.
Please keep me informed about errors, new developments and so on!