Feathercoin Official Weekly Update #16
Tuesday 14th January 2014
Stay Hungry
Feathercoin Key Stats273 days since genesis block creation
Approx. 29,800,000 Feathercoins created
Approx. 13.8 days behind target generation rateTo be entrepreneurial means to anticipate demand. It means to empathise with others and to bring predictability to the uncertain environments they face. But conceptualising a solution to a problem and having the insight to find the way there isn't easy. I believe everyone has the ability to be entrepreneurial but some people have something the others don't.
Because it's not enough to simply
want something, you have to
keep wanting it over time and that is what separates the entrepreneurs from the
wantrapreneurs. It's easy to get excited at the beginning of a project, full of hope and ambition. But waking up everyday wanting it more and more only comes with the devotion of the people on a mission and remember what's important.
You will need to stay hungry in this week's newsletter because Money Bags @ChekaZ is up to his old tricks again. There is some buried treasure in this newsletter and on the internet. Treasure now claimed. Thanks to all those who took part.Innovating Feathercoin
Being hungry means being hungry for something. To us that something is financial freedom and currency choice for everyone. Even if you are not a regular member of the forum we would like to invite you all to take part in our survey on what improvements you would like to see in the Feathercoin design. We are still young and feel we have come a long way already but it's important that we stay relevant and want to make our supporters proud.
One of our unique features is the way we do things. It's important to us that the people who hold our coins get some say over the direction of the coin itself. Even if those people don't have the expertise we believe the role of the expert is to give the public the appropriate range of decisions and education they need to make the right choices for them.
So take part in our survey. And feel free to add your own suggestions. At the moment they are:
- Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet (BIP32)
- Zerocoin - privacy by default
- Payment Protocol (BIP70)
- Increase Transaction Speeds
- Improvements to Blockchain Security beyond ACP
Our Next Meetup in Oxford
One thing we want to keep delivering is our
face to face meetups. We will be at the Oxford Blue again on the 25th of January. Don't worry there won't be a film crew there this time, you can just chill out and have a drink with the Feathercoin devs. If there is demand for it we will even do one of our trademark livestreams.
We will be at our usual at the Oxford Blue on Saturday the 25thPlease sign up on our
Meetup Page or feel free to surprise us! We'd love to meet you all.
Now the map is growing so fast there are rumours it's becoming self awareIf you would like to arrange a meetup in your area checkout
Local Feathercoin and look to see if there are others in your town. You can find members on the Forum by going to the menu bar and selecting
Members>Search For Members. Then reach out to
Ruth or
me, tell us about what you have planned in your area and we will add it to our
official meetup page.
Feathercoin on Reddit
@motherlode1 would also
like you to know that there are some Feathercoin Reddit forums which feature tips for mining, escrow services and monthly compeitions so please check them out:
http://www.reddit.com/r/fcfeathercoinmining ----> Feathercoin community
http://www.reddit.com/r/FeathercoinExchange ----> Feathercoin exchange
One person who can never be accused of satiating his hunger is
@Tuneman1980. Shane is from Illinois, apparently I don't know very much about it but what I did learn from our Skype interview is that Chicago is called the Windy City because the people there keep talking it up.
Anyway that's not the point. The point is that Shane has gone and created some cool analytics for crypto geeks to go obsess over. Checkout his venture
Crypto Coin Stats.
Don't get caught out by those pesky decimals ever again with these on-the-fly conversionsShane was motivated to build this site after he was finding it difficult to find these metrics for himself while searching the web. With a background in Software Development, Economics & Finance this was right up his street.
Satisfy you Crypto obsession with these glorious metricsIf you have any ideas on what you would like to see added you can send requests to him at
requests@cryptocoinstats.com, and make sure you follow him on twitter
@CryptoCoinStats. He is also grateful for any donations:
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Good work from the pirate state arrggh (I looked it up on Wikipedia).
5nNMc5oWrzQEfJiwnBMErtBChecking your Wallet Online
Now let's take a look at some newer members at Feathercoin.
@prensel joined us in December and stopped by the other day to tell us about
his project for checking the status of his Feathercoin wallet from his phone. You can see it in action on his here:
http://ftcpool.nl/wallet.php.
He may be new but he's also minted and putting 20Mhs to help secure the Feathercoin NetworkYou can check your stash anywhere with an internet connection. If you want to have go sign up to
http://cryptowallet.eu.
Feathercoin Twitter Tip Bot
Michael Harrison from Indiana stopped by the other day to delight us all with quite a surprise. He told us that he had only gone and created one of the most sought after apps that any coin could have, a Twitter Tip Bot that is called
Feather Tipper.
Currently undergoing testing please give this a whirlAfter the news last week that the British pop singer
Lily Allen turned down the opportunity to receive thousands of Bitcoins** 5 years ago why don't you all sign up to Michael's service now and send her some Feathercoins to make her feel better.
D'oh** Since Bitcoin is barely 5 years old she may well be confusing it with Linden Dollars, anyway it's all digital so send her some Feathertips anyway!
New Moderators
This week we welcome
@Calem and
@Pryderi to the Feathercoin team. They will be moderating the Newbie forum. The decision to include them was made pretty easy due to the fact that both of them had already been going out of their way to make new people feel welcome and direct them to parts of the forum where they can get support.
It's the muddy shoe problem. If you want to keep your house clean but let a few people in with muddy shoes before you know it everyone is doing it. Setting the tone of the environment early on is a powerful thing, people often look for rules and norms when they enter a new environment so that they know how they should act. We're glad people agree.
TL;DR
What's really inspiring is when people join us and decide they like the atmosphere and then put the time and work in to keep reinforcing it. Constant gardening. But what makes this place special is that everyone has some say over the direction of the ship, we are not elitist here and believe everyone should have a choice.
You can find last week's newsletter here:
Fly. Today special thanks go to @Ruthie for her contributions to this newsletter.
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@Feathercoin to stay up to date.
Thank-you for your time.
