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FeathercoinFTC

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An April 2013 Litecoin-based coin with 60-second blocks and a 336 million supply, later moved to NeoScrypt.

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The wiki's angle: Feathercoin is a grandchild of Bitcoin by way of Litecoin, a reminder that the family tree branches through altcoins as well as from Bitcoin itself.[1]

Contents

  1. Launch
  2. Parameters
  3. References

Launch

The Feathercoin announcement thread was opened by bushstar on 16 April 2013, and early replies carry the title “FeatherCoin - New Litecoin based coin”[1]. The current first post describes Feathercoin as “an upgraded and customised version of Bitcoin”[1].

Parameters

The thread, in its archived and later-edited form, lists NeoScrypt block hashing, a 60-second block target, 336 million coins in total and a block reward that halves every 2,100,000 blocks[1]. It also describes its own difficulty algorithm, eHRC, and an automatic checkpointing system intended to resist 51% attacks[1].

References

  1. primarybushstar, “Feathercoin [FTC]” announcement thread, Bitcointalk topic 178286 (opened 16 Apr 2013) [archived]

Related

Litecoin
Charlie Lee's 2011 code fork of Bitcoin: “silver to Bitcoin's gold”, Scrypt proof of work, 2.5-minute blocks,
Dogecoin
The 2013 joke coin by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, a Scrypt code fork in the Litecoin line, merge-mined vi
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