Quote from: MarKusRomanus on April 30, 2013, 04:29:04 PM

What other alt coin has a history similar to Feathercoin?
-hashrate increase in similar timeframe?
-adoption on multiple exchanges in less than a month
-profit 289.41% listing at http://www.coinchoose.com/ in less than a month
-community support that is similar

I'm seriously asking, because I wasn't around for the release of any of the other alt coins.
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I suspect the crucial part of the history you have described is the rapidly increasing hashrate.

Once the hashrate gets too high to be profitable (as in more profitable than some other coin whose difficulty has meanwhile gone down while miners hopped to this one) we'll see what happens.

There is some luck here too, in that some other coins that got jumped on by miners thus had rapidly increasing hash rate went high enough in difficulty fast enough that the miners hopped elsewhere before exchnges and such were operational, perhaps. Managing to get exchanges running before the miners hop elsehwere might keep the miners mining longer because they can cash in their coin easier.

The crucial point though tends to come when the miners move on. How many months or weeks or days will it take for difficulty to come back down? How many hours or days betwen blocks in the meantime?

Those are the things that caused problems for other coins that got a lot of hashing very fast.

Also I expect to a lot of people what oyu are seeing as success, maybe because you own GPUs, a lot of people are seeing as failure, in the sense that yet again a nice new coin, hopefully therefore a nice new opportunity for grass roots mining by normal people, got stomped on by big miners so that it almost instantly skyrocketed in difficult far out of the reach of normal people. Historically the next step after that has been for the big miners to move on, leacing the coin still far out of reach of small miners, then come back to rape it again when after maybe even weeks or months its difficulty finally manages to adjust back down.

-MarkM-