Just means I can buy some more as the price will go up when the next update is released
Any reason why I should buy? Im not sure but feathercoin seems a bit shady
Feathercoin runs its own forum rather than just posting on Bitcointalk this is the link
https://forum.feathercoin.com/
Unsure why you think its shady.
Its has been around for a long time now, has a dedicated team that can be contact on the forum above, it has a working beta wallet on core 0.9.3 with many extra features added to it and is in the process of final checks on it to release it, but I can't give you an ETA of this new Wallet yet.
Here is the link to the Beta of core 0.9.3 for Feathercoin on Git
https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/tree/0.9.3
If you do try to compile it yourself take note it is still only Beta and has not yet been released official for Feathercoin so do so at your own risk, also take note that once you upgrade to 0.9.3 you can't go back without downloading the whole blockchain again as its stores it in a different format, which is more efficient.
Feathercoin is not in it for the short term pump and dump, rather its looking at the long term picture.
I would not recommend putting your life saving in it, just like I wouldn't recommend that for any other coin, but at its current price a few hundred to a couple of thousand is a worthwhile idea.
Especially if BTCe does it again like they did in 2013 where they said they were delisting FTC caused a panic sell and then at the last minute changed their mind and didn't delist it which is possible since its volume has been over 70BTC in the last 24 hours. I guess we will find that out in February.
With cgminer I was using "--neoscrypt" option as a command line argument, but sgminer doesn't recognize it. If I use "--algorithm neoscrypt" it starts hashing, but seems like it's trying to do regular scrypt because the name of the .bin file created starts with "ckolivas" and all my shares are rejected with "above target" message. And if I use "-k neoscrypt", I'm getting: