Hi All,
A few messages have come in from people asking about what is happening in the world of Feathercoin so I thought I'd post here. I would like to say that I am fully committed to Feathercoin and view it as a long term project. I have left my position as Head of ICT in one of the Oxford University colleges to pursue this new currency full time. I have been a long time supporter of cryptocurrencies and am thrilled to be putting my time fully into them. I have enough Litecoin to see me through, I used to mine Litecoin when it was as easy as Feathercoin is to mine now. I am keen to make Feathercoin work for the next generation of crypto coin supporters.
ClientOn the client front I am continuing to look at ways of improving the Feathercoin network, stability and client. This includes a minor update later on today with double the amount of DNS Seed nodes. These are the nodes hard coded into the client that helps it find the network. More of these adds better resilience. I will also add another checkpoint.
I am looking around for safe features that could be included in the client right now. Perhaps a tool that will allow you to get details about the network without having to run a hundred commands or go to an external website. If you have any ideas please send me a PM.
Merchant adoptionWe have members who are contacting current merchants and service providers that currently use cryptocurrenices to introduce them to Feathercoin. We will see if there is anything we can do to help them to include it in their service. The target is to contact 1,000 businesses over the next 40 days. This is achievable and should yield great results.
Press packThere is a press pack that will be going out to introduce Feathercoin to a larger audience along with high quality vectors graphics designed by the community here.
WebsiteThe official forum is getting a styled to be inline with the rest of the website. Hosting is now being run in conjunction with Dreamwatcher and for that we get to use his excellent Feathercoin explorer which is also going to be styled like the rest of the site. We do have future plans for expanding the tools available on the website but will give more details when we get nearer to them.
Other updatesJustabitoftime has put out a similar update over at the Feathercoin Forum. Head over there if you want to read more and perhaps contribute to the work we are undertaking.
http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=262