Feathercoin Wallet - Meta data

What is Feathercoin?

Who owns Feathercoin?

Feathercoin is a cryptographic based currency using the Bitcoin core protocols and it's own settings. Feathercoin runs as a blockchain on a peer to peer network. The software to validate and access the Feathercoin blockchain is developed by a group of open source contributors communicating through the Feathercoin forum.

Community development

Community involvement has been part of the Feathercoin philosophy from it's initiation by Peter Bushnell when he created the Feathercoin forum. In particular to produce guides and support for new users and developers in the forum. [Ref 2]

The Feathercoin forum is already well established with answers to common questions and if you can't find in the answer in the guide then community support is available there. The Feathercoin forum is moderated and has guidelines to keep it respectful. [Ref 6]

Help or Support

If you wish to help or give support which can be as easy as becoming a forum member and up voting a good post to becoming a moderator or helping develop or test new enhancements.

The forum also contains threads of members experience, guides and details on developing external projects like starting a pool or developing a new app, exchange, web site or other novel use case. Once you post a "hello" message in New Users, you can post on the forum.

Once you are a forum member, You can increases your reputation by giving and receiving kudos, by clicking the arrows on the bottom right of the posts. [Ref 7]

Privacy

Privacy is a core feature of the Bitcoin Blockchain Feathercoin is forked from and complies by. [Ref 8]

The aims of the Feathercoin Wallet Guide

Feathercoin Wallet guide aims to show how to use the features of the Feathercoin Wallet and other relevant technology.

Origin of the Screen shots

The information contained is based on Feathercoin wallet version 0.9.6. The guide is applicable to other Feathercoin-qt versions and other alternative currency wallets, such as Bitcoin or Litecoin, which have similar features and operations.

Feathercoin (FTC) Core Wallet Features Overview

Main Features

• Send and Receive Feathercoins to an Address, a Stealth Address, URI text document or graphical QRCode.
• View and filter historical Feathercoin Transactions.
• Connect to a the Feathercoin Peer to Peer network and update the Blockchain information.
• Sign and Verify a message given, so as to prove ownership.
• Back-up your wallet data.

Advanced Features

• Multiple Signature Transactions
• Add a text comment to the transaction
• Include Nameview an openname DNS (Dynamic Name server) addresses to the Blockchain
• Create, manage and search for Stealth Addresses
• Transaction reports
• Coin Control
• Print a Paper Wallet

Plugins

• Bitmessage
• Shapeshift
• Coinnector

Operational Features

• Neoscrypt mining algorithm
• Automatic check pointing (ACP)
• enhanced Hash Rate Compensation (eHRC)

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Table of Contents

• Welcome to Feathercoin core wallet
  • Introduction to Feathercoin Core
• Feathercoin Wallet Main Screen and Buttons
• Feathercoin Wallet Buttons Bar
  • Hiding the Button Bar
  • Overview Button
  • Receive Button
  • Send Button
  • Transaction Button
  • Report Button
  • MultiSig Button
• Feathercoin Wallet Main Menu Options
  • Wallet drop down menu
    • Import URI payments
  • Backup wallet data
  • Paper Wallet Menu
    • Print a paper wallet
    • Import a Paper Wallet address
  • Encrypt your wallet
  • Receive Addresses Menu Option
    • Receive currency and Manage Addresses
  • Send Addresses Menu Option
    • Stealth Addresses
  • Exit
• Feathercoin wallet Settings Menu Options
  • Settings drop down Menu
  • Options Menu
    • Options menu : Main Tab
    • Options menu : Wallet Tab
  • Options Tabs
    • Network Tab
    • Windows Tab
    • Display Tab
  • Sign or Verify a Feathercoin Address
    • Sign a message
    • Verify a message
  • Debug console
• Feathercoin wallet Advanced Options Menu
  • Report and MultiSig Switch Main View
  • Comments in the Feathercoin Blockchain
    • Write comments into the Feathercoin Blockchain
    • Read comments from the Feathercoin Blockchain
• Feathercoin wallet Plugins Menu
  • BitMessage encrypted peer to peer private messaging
  • Opennames DNS Service
  • Shapeshift service
  • Coinnector service
  • Multiple Signature Addresses
    • Creating a Multiple Signature Address
    • Spending from a Multiple Signature Address
• Feathercoin Help Menu
  • Command line options
  • Stealth transaction Search - SX Tool
• Feathercoin Introduction to the Blockchain
• Feathercoin Back-end Features & Specification
  • enhanced Hash Rate Compensation (eHRC)
  • Neoscrypt
    • NSGminer
    • SGminer
  • Mining Pools
    • Feathercoin P2Pool
  • Advanced Checkpointing (ACP)
• Links, External features and further information
  • Feathercoin Android / Mobile wallet
  • Feathercoin forum : find support for wallet issues
  • Feathercoin forum : find support mining issues
  • Feathercoin : Online Block Explorers
  • ftc-abe - Run your own Feathercoin Block Explorer
  • Feathercoin API
  • pchMessageStart : Using Feathercoin on a server with other Cryptographic currencies
  • Feathercoin Graphics and Logos
  • Feathercoin Merchant tools
  • Feathercoin Online QR Code Generator
  • Feathercoin Open Merchant Map
  • FeatherPay - Feathercoin Point of Sales (POS)
  • Broadcast Transaction Service
  • Feathercoin Shopping Cart
  • Feathercoin (FTC) Opensource ATM
  • Feather Address - Client-Side Feathercoin Wallet Generator
  • Web based Paper wallet Vanity address generators
  • Self Notary process using the Feathercoin blockchain
  • Feathercoin Local
  • Feathercoin Technical settings
• References / Further reading :
• Post Scrypt

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Welcome to Feathercoin core wallet

Introduction to Feathercoin Core

Currency & Transactions

One use of currency / money is to facilitate trade. Trade is recorded in bookkeeping, this information is traditionally closed to the public and requires third parties or middlemen to approve the transactions.

Cryptocurrency is digital form of currency that is being used increasingly all over the world because it has been designed to be used on the internet. Currencies like Feathercoin are based on open source code and a distributed security model; which means anyone can mine or produce the coins or contribute to the code and development. [Ref 1]

Who runs the servers?

Cryptocurrency tries to take the validation out of the hands of centralised middlemen and allows anyone to participate. Agreeing on the software that controls the system being the consensus that is agreed prior to transactions taking place. Cryptocurrencies and the blockchain they are based on, is a g