Please direct all business to Wesphily - Important -
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[quote name=“Pyxis” post=“23142” timestamp=“1374797479”]
and for those that don’t know Tuck ;)
[/quote]you don’t know [b]T[/b]uck!
lel
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will you not be attending the bitcoin conference the 30th?
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[quote name=“svennand” post=“23156” timestamp=“1374815575”]
will you not be attending the bitcoin conference the 30th?
[/quote]"Hey all!
I feel prepared to represent Feather at the upcoming Bitcoin Conference in NYC. I have my business cards, Feather badges are in the mail and I have a good plan mapped out on who are the movers and shakers I need to speak with immediately. I’ll make sure to upload lots of pictures/videos! "
Of course I’ll be there.
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[quote name=“Justabitoftime” post=“23158” timestamp=“1374816190”]
[quote author=svennand link=topic=3014.msg23156#msg23156 date=1374815575]
will you not be attending the bitcoin conference the 30th?
[/quote]"Hey all!
I feel prepared to represent Feather at the upcoming Bitcoin Conference in NYC. I have my business cards, Feather badges are in the mail and I have a good plan mapped out on who are the movers and shakers I need to speak with immediately. I’ll make sure to upload lots of pictures/videos! "
Of course I’ll be there.
[/quote]phu, got scared for a moment there.
have faith in wesphile, however your effort in the coin has been priceless. So has your commitment/experience!(really hope you are just tired/demorilazed by the unocs launch and need just a couple of days to recoup!) ::)
EDIT.
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[quote name=“wesphily” post=“23134” timestamp=“1374792673”]
His account is not hacked. He put in a lot of time and even more money to help the community. It is now at a point that he feels he can focus more on merchant adoption and UNOCS. This is a great new focus since adoption is what will bring value to Feathercoin and its partners. I will make an official post that includes my plans for Feathercoin listed by priority.
[/quote]wesphily do not beat around the bush (hehe get it ;D)
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I’ve already written to justabit personaly about how I feel about his departing, so I won’t repeat myself.
I will say that John, you have been a great support for all of us here at Feathercoin, your commitment to the whole Feathercoin community and your support to Bush and myself has been out standing.
John, you will be a great partner in Unocs and I know you’ll work to the best of your ability in moving the Unocs project forward.
The Feathercoin community door is always open to you :)
Wes, I hope you’re ready…? ;)
LETS GO TEAM FTC, Lets keep moving projects forward and working as a community.
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[quote name=“Ruthie” post=“23180” timestamp=“1374831847”]
I’ve already written to justabit personaly about how I feel about his departing, so I won’t repeat myself.I will say that John, you have been a great support for all of us here at Feathercoin, your commitment to the whole Feathercoin community and your support to Bush and myself has been out standing.
John, you will be a great partner in Unocs and I know you’ll work to the best of your ability in moving the Unocs project forward.
The Feathercoin community door is always open to you :)
Wes, I hope you’re ready…? ;)
LETS GO TEAM FTC, Lets keep moving projects forward and working as a community.
[/quote]John has been an inspiration to me and is the reason I got involved. This isn’t the end, this is the beginning of something new, and I look forward to learning more from you in the future.
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the issue i have with the matter was justabitoftimes statement regarding the partnership.
earlier it was stated that his main focus was and will be ftc. that the partnership would just
expand the horizon. now he is saying im out and will be working solely as a silent partner promoting the union? leaving ftc in the dust?please someone defend or explain this to me.
given the lack of response from bushstar regarding eta on advanced checkpoint, the fail to still launch unocs and so on there should be an official press release solving ALL of these unanswered questions.
for the first time im starting to wonder if i should start to focus my energy elsewhere.
this post should not be posted public as a pool manager.
but since i dont have access to private area i see no other option.im starting to feel a bit like kevlar expressed earlier
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[quote name=“svennand” post=“23196” timestamp=“1374839414”]
the issue i have with the matter was justabitoftimes statement regarding the partnership.
earlier it was stated that his main focus was and will be ftc. that the partnership would just
expand the horizon. now he is saying im out and will be working solely as a silent partner promoting the union? leaving ftc in the dust?please someone defend or explain this to me.
given the lack of response from bushstar regarding eta on advanced checkpoint, the fail to still launch unocs and so on there should be an official press release solving ALL of these unanswered questions.
for the first time im starting to wonder if i should start to focus my energy elsewhere.
this post should not be posted public as a pool manager.
but since i dont have access to private area i see no other option.im starting to feel a bit like kevlar expressed earlier
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7NgpjVBn3I
[/quote]I can’t speak to what has gone on with Justabit and UNOCS but I felt it was important to address your post because you clearly feel very strongly about this and I wanted to say where I stand so that we can reach some consensus.
I am going in increase my time on this forum and in the Feathercoin project. I am helping UKMark with his SMSAddress App, I demoed it yesterday to some investors at the Nesta meetup in London and got a lot of interest.
Ruth and I are working on an investor pack and we are also working hard with Chris the owner of Oxford Blue to do more pub days and reach out to other local merchants.
I believe in this project because I believe in the people behind it and that includes you, we are strong enough to overcome these challenges.
As Director of PR my door is always open, if you have any suggestions or have a vision for the future of Feathercoin I want to know. You can reach me publicly here in the forums or on PM.
The people that are closest to the work know how best to do the work, it is the role of any director to give you everything you need to get that job done.
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Thanks Chris :)
I’ve spoken with Bush and he is happy for anyone to direct any PM’s to him :)
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[quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“23149” timestamp=“1374807161”]
[quote author=Pyxis link=topic=3014.msg23142#msg23142 date=1374797479]
and for those that don’t know Tuck ;)
[/quote]you don’t know [b]T[/b]uck!
lel
[/quote]I doubt anyone does, even Tuck.
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[quote name=“svennand” post=“23196” timestamp=“1374839414”]
the issue i have with the matter was justabitoftimes statement regarding the partnership.
earlier it was stated that his main focus was and will be ftc. that the partnership would just
expand the horizon. now he is saying im out and will be working solely as a silent partner promoting the union? leaving ftc in the dust?[/quote]
Dust? When there was only a handful of us on this site, I spent night and day working on helping develop this community. On my vacation in Ecuador, I checked in every day… even developed the script for the animation we see on the front page. [b]I put my time in… period.[/b]
All these hours were volunteer based… in fact, from an equity standpoint, holding off on my lucrative training contracts was quite an expensive proposition. I give my lovely g/f so much respect for supporting my decision to pursue Feathercoin. With that being said, I simply can’t volunteer this amount of time forever. It’s not fair to myself, and certainly not to Allison who I haven’t really seen much of since starting this project.
As far as UNOCS, well… if Feather decides it doesn’t want to take advantage of the instant confirmation system down the road and wants to directly compete against it… that’s not my call. As a Feather investor, this is a great opportunity to be involved in projects we would not have the resources to finance ourselves. Launch didn’t happen as smooth as we wanted. However, rather than everyone getting up in arms over a system WE ARE NOT paying for… how about we wait until release and then judge the merits?
I’ve been in contact with Ruth just today, I left some suggestions for Bush yesterday… it’s not like I left Feathercoin in the ‘dust’. I felt like I helped make a difference… now I need to go back to family needs. Even the time I plan on spending with the partners is far less than I did directly at Feather.
[b]I said from the beginning I would stay until either someone was there that wanted to replace me or it just wasn’t fun anymore. [/b]Cheers to everyone on continued success here. To everyone that said something nice about my contribution, thank you! I had a great time for the most part and learned so much from the process.
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I’m not sure how anyone can see anything wrong with justabits decision, after all we all trusted him at the start so why not now? And I can fully understand the neglected business and GF side of things, I have a family too and I still keep my hand in my business, in fact it was only today I realised just how much Crypto can seriously take over your life, the problem is life does not wait around for you or anyone else.
In the meantime I’d just like to say thanks to justabit for all of his hard work and commitment, he has not only shown, but proven over the last few months just how much he was devoted to Feathercoin and the community in general, so instead of all saying this and that, and jumping to your own conclusions, I think we should take what he’s said as read and all stop being so goddam selfish and show him what he really deserves:
[b]RESPECT![/b] 8)
Justabit still has a vested interest in Feathercoin and Feathercoin is part of UNOCS, I’m sure once the bridge is finally rolled out we will all see this in a far different light.
[b]GOOD LUCK JUSTABIT! [/b]
…Anyway my kids are on summer vacation and I have not watched a good movie with my wife in far too long, so I’m taking the weekend off. Life’s far too short and precious to waste it [i]all[/i] on something virtual. ::)
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this has nothing to do with me not respecting justabitoftime,
neither do i not appriciate all the hard work that he has put in to ftc.
ive defended and expressed my appriciation on several occation
just wanted to make that absolutely clear!will eleborate more when im not typing on my phone later ;)
sorry if you took it as beeing uapriciated about your effort justabitoftime.
that was not the meaning of my posti know exactly how much crypto currency can enchanter you into spending unreasonable amount of time on it :D
will reply to you all later
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Can I use this development as a diving board for my fontas like FTC price manipulation scheme so I can buy up all the FTC super cheap before launch?
;)
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[quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“23217” timestamp=“1374860024”]
Can I use this development as a diving board for my fontas like FTC price manipulation scheme so I can buy up all the FTC super cheap before launch?;)
[/quote]are you accusing me of pump&dump?
in that case i take it offencive.
pump&dump is the cancer of crypto coins! -
John has put a real lot of time and money into this project, and I respect his decision. We all have real life and important things to take care of. Feathercoin has grown into a major altcoin and shall continue expansion with or without our partners.
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[quote name=“svennand” post=“23218” timestamp=“1374860404”]
are you accusing me of pump&dump?
[/quote]Sorry, no. Did not read your post (no offense). I’m addressing the Justabit leaving situation, as everyone I’ve talked with is as well.
This has created more investor panic than perhaps some realize. There are big holders ready to bail unless something positive happens with FTC (within days? hard to tell).
Justabit was the voice of FTC. Half the n00bs think he’s “the dev” or the guy “running the show” or the “main guy”. Which he was for many of us as well, but in a different way.
But if you don’t hang out in this forum all day, you have a different outlook on this situation right now and it’s not a good one.
No offense to Bush, but we rarely see him post anymore because he’s coding (as he should be).
[b]Justabit is FTC[/b] to all outsiders. Keeping them convinced everything is ok is not going well. They are beginning to believe the “[s]scam[/s]” cries as the deadlines pass.
Hence, my joke about using this as a springboard.
Hey some people here openly called for a price manipulation and meant it, so don’t get on me for joking about using a real situation to our advantage. ;)
On a real tip … don’t be surprised if some big sells happen within a week. So be ready to buy!
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sorry tuck, im a bit trigger happy when i get cornered ::)
you struck a nerve that is actually one of my key points(your last post)
but as i said. bad timing to post such a seriouse post, then the daily
choirs catch up with you and your not able to finish your statement/discussion :PI’ll be back!
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Heres my case:
Regarding todays announcement:
Justabitoftime was/is for now? Our leader. He has spent an incredible amount of time setting up feathercoin to succedd. What his primary focus has been is the relation devision, this involves the expanding of United Open Currency Solution (UNOCS) which included the cooporation between three coins; Feathercoin, WorldCoin and Phenixcoin.
I do not exactly know how everything was in the «inner circle of personel», but from an outsiders perspective justabitoftime has had the main lead to get allians together.
In many eyes, he is the «face» of feathercoin (yes he has done such a great job)Once again i state that he has had alot of personal sacrifice regarding donating his own time to this comunity. And for that i thank him, and are gratefull.
Theres two things that i DO NOT agree with however.
1. The donation rally to send justabitoftime to the bitcoin conference to represent feathercoin(and unocs as far as i understand). I personally donated due to the fact that i felt justabitoftime is an excellent representative of feathercoin. I know that he still will be there, but the bubble has kind of bursted regarding he’s solidarity towards his primare objective feathercoin (1. feathercoin, shared second wdc/pxc), at least from the comunity outside the inner circle. Guess the trollboxes are going in flames.
2. The Unocs launch was a dicaster, i think we can all agree on this. Until today the page continued to «show need just a couple of more hours» that has been there for several days…
If unocs delivers everything that it promise it will be EXCELLENT, but its really of to a shitty start. The launch was as epic fail as you can possibly create. We most likely lost a couple of good men on that launch alone (Kevlar u still here?)
AND by the way wesphily, ETA (estimated time to arrival), is not the freaking same as an fullsite countdown clock to «release», that last part is not an estimate. Its an statement! Here we are, this thing will be huge. Comming in xx hours!
which both got prolongen due to security issues (cloudflare? Really havent people though about this until the last minut?), and after the timer got to zero nothing happend? An hour later a begging picture came up wanting a couple of more days? People actually though it had been hacked. Thats how farfetch the incident was…given todays aggressive trolls we should at least have ddos protection for such an important site. That should have been on the todo list from the getgo!I do understand that you are tired and need a break justabitoftime, but i do think that announcing your resignment of the «throne» before the bitcoin conference event, AND before unocs has even gotten on air is a huge mistake seen from an investors standpoint. It does not show much confidence in the product (reminds me of typical bloopers delivered by microsoft/nokia…). Break ok, but dont announce it until after these two things are up and running/over with. But done is done.
Now over to the other part of the feathercoin community, the technical part.
Guess what, ONCE again we are under 51% attack (earlier!), People are freaking out on the forum, trollbox are trolling like a *******. How could this happen again? I have heared something about advanced checkpoints which sounds like something that would REALLY put feathercoin on the map. Where are we at with that? 50% done? Is it a team developing on it? Or are our faith solely resting on bushstars shoulders?
Pools are frequently having to increase their confirmation amount, people are not able to freely transport their digital value around without a hell of a wait. Miners and pool are getting orphaned blocks and lose alot of money. While the attackers are having a blast exploiting and making feathercoin look bad. The dedicated comunity are using countless hours on alternate forums/chats defending feathercoins from all the trolling (feathercoin is dead blablabla)I know that this happens to other coins to.
But one of the reasons i joined feathercoin comunity in the start, was because it wanted to be something else than just a cloned pump/dump coin. It was an active coin, one that wanted to be something else. It started as just an clone of litecoin, but with entusiastic dev and a hell of a pr person/team.
There were blod sweat and tears to get the diff down after that horrific instamine insident. But the faith regarding a solution on the matter (thanks bushstar for implenting the 41% rule!), was in our mind. we strived trough block for block at an excellent loss (my rigs cost me 600usd pr month alone in electrisity, not including the 10k investment in all the equipment, all the hours trying to get it stable (look for my bonfire histories=P ) ). The core team even chipped in from their private bitcoin stock. to boost the network hashrate
We all got through and i think the comunity felt that since we where able to survive this nothing could stop us and the coin would surely be a success.And we were separating us from the other «clones» by implementing something other didnt have.
Just a sidetrack here; WHY doesnt WDC and PXC implement similar feature, theres constantly cries for help due to stuck at high diff. I for one are tired of going to the aid, then in a day or two its the same problem. What about fixing the issue??? the solution is there for the taking.
I feel all the focus on feathercoin has been on the public relation part (you guys have done a great job, dont get me wrong), but i do think that the coin itself has been forgotten. We can still easily be attacked by jet another 51%…
I might be completely wrong since im not in the «dev team», but from an outsiders point of view, i feel left in dark. I do not know what to tell people when they ask me stuff about this. All i can say is that its being handlet, but i do not know when, or exactly how technically.
I also miss a more open source development, we are many people in this comunity with different skills, some may know java, others are experts in database or android/ios development. I miss an better way to have an overview of whats beeing developed at times. The hiearchy with key developers without communication to the rest of us on progress/eta/things needed to better handled. The way things work now is certainly a cumbersome and slow way to work. Some sort of development implementation should
be created.An example: you have a piece of software, lets take the one im currently are exploring, beeing able to easily mine from your browser using an java app (like bitminter for those who are familiar with that, its an excellent bitcoin java app) heres an example image of me mining towards bitminter pool trough their software:
[img]http://s21.postimg.org/urjk7pirr/Capture.jpg[/img]I think that such a software would really bring more average joes to the party!, this will especially benefit pxc since they rely on gambling. Most pokerplayers i know dont know crap about digital currency, but beeing able to play for “free” just by pressing a button on the computer would be a GREAT selling point.
Such software exist but only for litecoin cpu usage atm. I know java in some amount (been using it for 3years when going trough my computer engineering degree). It should not be that hard to make.
However for me to solely taking on this task i need to investigate exactly how the blocks are sent (scrypt, N r p values, the use of KDF, key stretching), i also need to make a frontend for display purpose, maybe some cool artwork (speedometer like bitminter, some logos etc.). I then have to create the socket connections for input/output stream between server side(pool) and client(miner)
i then need to create the engine behind it, methods to crack those crypted blocks, do i for example use lwjgl? And the list goes on.With an open development comunity someone could say, hey im no expert in java, but gui building that sounds like fun. Can i try it?, maybe some others say, hey i know exactly how the blockchain works, what you need to know? Instead of me using a month of research some helpfull soul has the solution right in front of me…
For larger project it could be broken down in parts and created smaller teams with that specific task, that has an certain amount of time to be completed. That way you could get the core up and running, and keep on adding features in the next month. Instead of one large ETA, you part it, you then get a much better overview of the «whole» and an more precice ETA will happen, if not then the program is still there. Just not with all the functions jet…
Theres alot of different models that could be used to get a better dev environment here.
One example are the Scrum model: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0llRltyFM
Or maybe Kanban?: http://www.youtube.com/user/axosoft?v=R8dYLbJiTUEThis will actually fix both issues regarding keeping the comunity in the loop,
and also it will create a more democratic comunity where the users are making decisions as to what they feel is needed asap and not in two months (Kanban function espesially regarding this)Im sorry if for falling completely of trail on some parts, but i think feathercoin can be so much more than it is today. I also feel that the pase/momentum of the coin is slowing down. Im not accusing either bushstar or other devs for slacking. I just feel that if we unite as an comunity we can acomplish so much more, and that involves sharing/keeping people in the loop more frequently, and or implement better solutions for people to participate/work together.
If you find any misspelling or some lines that just sound obscure its most likely written wrong=P it damn late and ive been working 17 hours straight… Just felt that i needed to post this before bed=)
heres some outtakes from btc-e chatbox which i just checked:
cosmo: FTC outta btc-e December 25th, merry christmas
LitecoinJudas: please remove ftc, its an eyesore.
millsdmb: lets fork ftc
LitecoinJudas: please fork ftc so we can get another crapcoin out of the picture please and thanksthis was within ONE segment of the chatbox. all i wanted was to see the current value of ftc (which still is the same)
I’ve tired off waiting, lets show em ******* that feathercoin is a currency worth having!