Ok, I just tried several times to compile under Ubuntu 16.04, and it won't do it. Boost errors. I tried installing the ancient version of Boost that it calls for in the docs, Still get the same errors. I can probably set up a vm with an old version of Ubuntu and compile that way, but this is going to cause problems. Makes me wonder if that's why Cryptopia has had the wallet in maintenance since before the current meltdown?
There needs to be a code update to bring it current. Boost has changed, and various things are going to break because of that. I haven't sufficient skill to do this, but if somebody in the Funk community wants to make a new branch and update it, I'm more than willing to test the code.
Note, I'm not talking fundamental changes here, nothing to the protocol. Just an update from the four year old codebase.
There is not any need to update the code to make it current. FUNK has worked just fine for all the years of it's existence. Sure people are miffed by the difficulty changes, and intermittent non-sync times. The blockchain still moves along just fine.
Simon didn't even bother tampering with the code because he didn't remember what dependencies were required to recompile. He was intending to launch a new coin too based on some Verium PoST. In fact it's his white paper that I modified for the new token. I simplified it and made it more do-able. If you dig way back into the forum you can find his old white paper.