Hi FoldingCoin community,

I wrote a 2 part article discussing FoldingCoin and Folding@Home for the newly launched USA franchise of NewsBTC.com

http://us.newsbtc.com/foldinghome-foldingcoin-mining-for-medical-cures-part-1/

http://us.newsbtc.com/foldinghome-foldingcoin-mining-for-medical-cures-part-2/

This is my first attempt at being a writer so, I hope I have done both these amazing projects justice.

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Well done! It explains folding and our coin very well!

Yes we are looking into it, we have not yet sent out that distribution. I will post here once it is resolved

Alright so James fixed it

something is going on with the server since we started running the shop on it as well. We may be looking into getting an additional server for the shop but me and james will be taking care of that this weekend since he has work all week. Basically it didnt run 2 days ago and yesterday since it was missing an entry just started from the beginning. So James rolled it back and had it recalculate the correct information.

Thanks!

We just paid up until the 29th, but now we distribute every other day so any work done on the 30 and today have not yet been paid out.

When did you go down?

Right on so you should look for your payouts from yesterday and today early in the morning tomorrow (EST zone)

Thanks guys! I hope my articles bring in some new folders.

One day we wish to launch a stats page for easily finding that information, but for now you would have to go through the raw data found here http://stats.foldingcoin.net/platformReports/FLDC/

At the monthly meeting, I talked about using 5Mln of the 100Mln undistributed tokens we received for rewarding long-term folders. This way we can also reward small contributors for their dedication. What I propose:

We count the number of days an address has been included in the daily distributions. We then reward the folders via weekly distributions for reaching the following milestones with X amount of FLDC:

Level 0: New Folder - 0-10 days - 0 FLDC
   Level 1:   Junior Folder - 11-25 days - 200 FLDC
   Level 2:   Folder - 26-50 days - 500 FLDC
   Level 3:   Senior Folder - 50-100 days - 1000 FLDC
   Level 4:   Hero Folder - 101-365 days - 5000 FLDC
   Level 5:   Legendary Folder - 1yr-2 yrs - 10000 FLDC
+   Level 5+: Folding Champion - +2yrs - 50000 FLDC

These rewards might be small to huge miners, but they are sizeable to smaller ones. We could also only do it above a certain level. Next to this we can make badges for this (Like a FLDC logo with a number on it) that people can proudly use on bitcointalk.

For the next week, I would like to get feedback from the community on this and then we will put it up for a vote in this thread.

So, what do you think?