Sorry for the somewhat slow answer, guess people in here are so excited about tweaking their gfx-cards again

https://www.feathercoin.com/merchants-who-accept-ftc/

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I'm curious (honestly curious, not trying to be an ass about what you write) what you base that impression on. When I look at FTC I see a dedicated community of people and a lot of projects going on that have the possibility to push things in a better direction. I see a will to change things for the better, without to much conservatism trying to keep things as they've always been. I also see a coin where influence and new ideas are pretty easy to push for even though you might be a total newcomer to the community.

With that said, yes of course I'm biased (I can probably be labeled as a fanboy). The fact that I see these things, and you seem not to, tells me that we might be way to private about our stuff over at our own forums. Can we improve our coin & community, probably

my point still stands, and with that said I have an honest question for you before we go on debating what's right and wrong
Do you honestly believe that once a coin has gone down it's not possible for it to rise again?

Should something have been done earlier, probably.
Is FTC irrelevant, well, I'd say this is decided the same way price for a coin is decided, by anyone and everyone.
It might end up in a big nosedive, or it might be a huge success, nobody knows as of right now. I mean after all, we haven't switched algo yet so how could one know?


I find it interesting that everyone seem to deem the future of a coin purely based on how it's traded right now.

"FTC have a low price and low trading volume, hence it's an irrelevant coin that's going to fade away and die."

Does this really make sense? Will the trading volume or price never go up once it's gone down? I fail to see how this kind of argument is even valid in a discussion like this 


With that said, I truly respect your opinion smoothie, however I also truly believe that you're wrong about FTC being irrelevant

How am I going to get any work done today with the white paper out?!

Now someone go code yourself an awesome GPU miner!

It's a relevant concern indeed, and that's why we're already working hard trying to get at least one GPU miner in place from launch day (no telling at the moment if nvidia or amd will get done first, or perhaps both). Launching without a GPU miner won't only risk that everything looks like a scheme for the core team to get rich but the coin would also be very easy to mine big time with a bot net. None of those options would benefit feathercoins survival, that's for sure

with most stuff said about neoscrypt, I think the featherpay solution looks really promising. Stuff like that is what will bring crypto into a wider base of usage!

there's always room for n + 1 algos, however it's very much a dog eat dog world. For each new algo that pops up it has to kill another one off, effectively making the existing algo obsolete in some way, in order to become big.

So room for more, yes, room for more widely used algos, not really.

With that said, I strongly believe that we'll achieve something truly great with FTC and the new algo. Our developers have put in a lot of great work and it looks promising (god I'm gonna stand with my pants down and feel ashamed after this statement if the algo takes a complete nosedive ). Scrypt has served it's purpose as an algo for GPU mining, that time's over now and a successor is very much needed. X11 and Scrypt-n hasn't quite managed to step up and become that, so at the moment I'd say there's a free space up for grabs in the room right now.

Hard to tell how it will function before we've seen it implemented. Lower power usage have however been one of the things the developers had in mind. Hard to say tho how much trade-off between function and low power usage they had to do in the end

tl;dr
Wait and see

don't feed the troll, anyone with some common sense realizes that there's more solutions than merge mining on the table

Promising news!

I notice that you keep posting about the low 24 hour volume FTC has at the moment, I think you're viewing it from the wrong angle?
Don't you think that trading volume is quite irrelevant in a case like this? I mean, if a solution like this would be taken in by more and more merchants the volume will go up since more people would adapt and trade with ftc.

tl;dr
Usage of a crypto currency is not determined by the current trading volume, however, the trading volume will be strongly determined by a coins current usage

It's kind of gotten to be the FTC way, we don't brag and boast about being the most awesome coin with the awesomest projects out there. Sometimes we make to little noise of ourselves, but at the same time I think  it kind of differentiates us from others in a good way when everybody else is having some kind of boasting war, trying to come up with the best and most attractive features for the moment in order to get 15 minutes of fame (so the people with invested money can dump at a good price, make a profit and then leave the coin to dry).

I'm deffo partial in this case tho being a clear FTC fanboy

It's a cheap coin at the moment with a very enthusiastic community and team trying to take it forward, one step at the time.

New algo is around the corner (currently in beta phase), it's a first step towards something new, worth following

It's true that FTC have stagnated since the last period of glory and high values. It's however by no means dead yet.
I believe that the biggest mistake we've done in the FTC community so far is (as many have pointed out before) to believe that FTC will just magically step out of the LTC and BTC shadow. Of course this hasn't happened, and the still active members in the community have realized this now.

There's a new algo around the corner and a couple of (imho) interesting projects being discussed. Will these be the factors that take FTC out from the shadows? It's hard to tell if it's enough. But I'm willing to bet that we'll at least see a rise in value when the new algo lands.

FTC is very much alive, we've however taken a lot of damage by not doing anything at all really, and lost a lot of community members in the process. That's a mistake we're not doing again


so...let the trolling and mockery of my beliefs begin