How to support Feathercoin? about stacks-core

[muneeb-ali]

You're right that given that FTC has support for OP_RETURN, it's possible to support Blockstore on top of FTC. However, keep in mind that the "virtual blockchain" (see this) on FTC will not be the same as the "virtual blockchain" on BTC (unless everyone is broadcasting the exact same name_ops on the FTC blockchain as well). You can think of this as creating a parallel universe (or a parallel chat channel) that no one is really using because we expect most people to use the BTC blockchain for now.

Are you trying to create new namespace(s) on top of FTC using Blockstore?

On a separate note, it's probably a good idea to start embedding the Merkle tree root hash of the blockstore namespace in other alt-coin blockchains periodically, but this is different from broadcasting all name_ops on an alt-coin.

[jcnelson]

Hi @cqtenq,

The problem you were encountering was due to a now-fixed bug in pybitcoin, whereby pybitcoin did not properly handle compressed WIF-encoded keys. Creating a private key as follows works for me:

>>> import pybitcoin
>>> pybitcoin.BitcoinPrivateKey("N876Ywf8bL5JWMPbHvjHP2AaSF1Ap8Wg4qAn9AAiQbmYFWPh2vqe")
<pybitcoin.privatekey.BitcoinPrivateKey instance at 0x7fc3e8f5de60>
>>> 

I'm closing this issue for lack of activity. Please re-open if you encounter this problem again.

-Jude