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This is a self-moderated thread for discussion of Emercoin trading and price speculation.  ( Full disclosure - I am the Chief Communications Officer for Emercoin )


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Background:

Emercoin is a leading digital currency and shared ledger platform that focuses on true blockchain innovation. We are an internationally comprised company that has brought together some of the very best digital currency and blockchain talent in the World. Our focus is on creating blockchain-based services for both consumers and business. In the past year the company has invested its efforts into development of technologies that offer solutions to real-world problems. The other tenant of Emercoin is that our technologies constantly push the threshold of innovation, which has allowed us to create a truly feature-rich currency and blockchain.

Recently we have begun to form partnerships with industry leaders who see value in the Emercoin currency (EMC) and the Emercoin blockchain. Since we specialize in delivering digital payment and blockchain solutions that are ready-to-use and scale well for the enterprise environment, we have attracted several partners who are making use of our services in the near future. The most recent publicly announced partnership is with Microsoft who will be adding the Emercoin blockchain services to the Azure cloud's Blockchain-as-a-Service platform. This will allow Azure cloud users to install and make use of the many innovative EMC services along with the EMC currency. Here is the suite of Emercoin services slated for addition into the Microsoft Azure cloud marketplace:

• EMC SSH - Our decentralized solution for secure shell management
• EMC SSL - Our decentralized solution for online security and passwordless authentication
• EMC DNS - Censorship-resistant domain name system that improves upon Namecoin
• EMC TTS - Our trusted time stamping service
• EMC STREAM - Micropayment library for streaming digital media of all types
• EMC LNX - The first decentralized pay-per-click advertising network of its kind  
• EMC DPO - Our digital proof of ownership solution for physical or digital goods and services
• EMC InfoCard - Storage for digital business cards for use with EMC SSL

Microsoft and Emercoin partnership:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-as-a-service-update-3/

http://www.coindesk.com/bitpay-microsoft-blockchain-platform/

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/microsofts-azure-blockchain-as-a-service-program-gains-momentum-cm562389



Coin and blockchain details:

Emercoin is a Proof of Work / Proof of Stake hybrid,  that relies on Proof of Stake more than Proof of Work for the production of Emercoin and the security of the network. Here are the coin and blockchain specifics:

• Website: http://Emercoin.com
• Link to Emercoin Announcement thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=362513.0
• Emercoin wallet download for Windows, Linux and freeBSD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/emercoin/files/
• Emercoin is not a pre-mined digital curerncy . Official announcement was made on December 8th, 2013 and binaries and sources were posted on December 11 2013 Moscow (12:00 +3 GMT).
• Hash - SHA- 256
• Total coins: 1 * 10^9 EMC
• Coins Available: 36,828,680.596691 EMC
• PoW + PoS mining, hybrid of Namecoin and Peercoin
• Proof of Stake APR 6%
• # of confirmations for a new block - 32
• Emercoin mining pool: pool.emercoin.com
• Difficulty is recalculated after each block
• For more network details please visit the Emercoin block explorer: https://emercoin.mintr.org/emerboard
• Exchanges:
  
  https://www.livecoin.net/trade/index
  https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-EMC
  https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange?market=EMC_BTC
  https://yobit.net/en/trade/EMC/BTC
  https://1ex.trade/?c_currency=47
  
  
  

And off we go my friends, speculate away and play nice!

Let's do this!

I speculate the price will hold strong and increase cause someone owns a super majority of this coin.

The PoW coins might hurt now that this coin is more well known and on BITTREX.




Just speculation. No proof. I also don't own this coin yet so I would like the price to crash down

Lack of liquidity - both up and down -  for such a high market cap is kind of scary for new comer traders. I'd like the project to grow on me as opposed to being forced to hold a bag due to 'ideals' about the tech, so will hold my satoshis for now.

Looking forward to finding out more about the project as time goes by.

Yeah, need Polo onboard ASAP.  I filled out their request form.. no idea how effective it will be.  Fingers crossed.

Thank you for the help str11ngfello. This appears to be a matter of strength in numbers so hopefully our bothers and sisters see your good work and follow suit. At one point the beat of the drums will become too loud to ignore and EMC will be listed on Poloniex.

Please fill this out everybody https://poloniex.com/coinRequest

Already filled ;) I think the price of EMC will skyrocket when it goes alive in Poloniex ;D

Thank you both, these are the kind of efforts that will draw attention. I left a friendly reminder post on the Poloniex Facebook page, hopefully all of this noise is heard on their end. There are many more exciting endeavors currently taking place with Emercoin and some of these will be made public soon.


There will also be a formalized road map posted for the community to see and take part in as well. So stay tuned and grab yourself some EMC.

Relevant to Emercoin discussion and speculation:


Emercoin is making the rounds in the global financial news circles:


http://www.nasdaq.com/article/microsofts-azure-blockchain-as-a-service-program-gains-momentum-cm562389

WOW, nice!!! It's a great news that Emercoin can be met by others on nasdaq.com!

It looks like I was wrong. Price dropped 40%! haha. Let's hope it drops another 40% tomorrow. Then maybe I can buy a few.

The Emercoin services image has been added to the main post. This will give you all a graphical example of why Emercoin is one of the fastest growing digital currencies and blockchain platforms in the World.

with this capitalization, and the need to be added to Azure, which of course is driven by and leads to good feelings and thoughts, but on the other hand due to the uneven distribution, and the popularity of 90% for 1000 coins purses, there are unclear which place is going to take Emer and borrowing as a solution, then what questions and engage with these issues still not solved ?

Come on, folks.

1. Devs are russians. They always cash out at first possibility.
2. Large instamine - 85% of coin supply was generated in first month. As a consequence, uneven distribution and super-fat wallets. PoS minting only worsens the problem.
3. Almost no coverage on exchanges and horrible liquidity.

Best coin to invest, indeed.

Emercoin making the media rounds part two:


http://cointelegraph.com/news/116020/price-of-emercoin-doubles-following-its-partnership-with-microsoft

That dip did not last long! Hope you were able to grab some.

This project is definitely one to keep a close watch. Emercoin presents new alternatives on DNS administration

So you think you are smarter than Microsoft or Bill Gates???

Quit your troll, go back to your grave. This coin is directly backed up by Microsoft, and this is the most important reason for whales to invest on it, in a free market, only Capital talks, you can judge EMC when your coin or your name backed up by Microsoft and gets on NASDAQ's news page.

And Bittrex has already adopted EMC, Poloniex will soon, i'm sure you will see a BIG price UP when EMC gets on Poloniex.

so someone mined all the supply and pumps it to 6 million market cap.. I'll stay away

Hey BugSpirit,


Thank you for the feedback, we do welcome all forms of constructive criticism here. I can provide some insight into your concerns:



1. The development team is quite spread out geographically, in Canada, United States, Germany, Australia, Russia and Estonia. The company has gone to great lengths to do the exact opposite of what is suggested, focusing on development of tools and services instead of spending our time and money on promoting the currency. We feel the results will speak for themselves and we have a long term vision in place. If we were hyping the currency from the beginning, this would be more reflective of a company that had short term aspirations (looking for a quick payout). Emercoin will be around for a very, very long time.


2. The currency was open to the public and not premined, so everyone has had an equal opportunity to join from the start. Individuals who mined the currency early when it was economically worthless did acquire more EMC than individuals who came in after more value was built into the currency and blockchain


3. This is a fair criticism and one that is being addressed aggressively now that are focus has shifted. Once again, our initial focus was on developing the World's most functional blockchian and this was done with little external promotion (our funding was spent on bringing the World results, not promises). Now that we have accomplished this and major industry leaders are working with us, the time has come to improve the access and liquidity of the EMC. Several exchanges will be adding EMC over the next two months, so expect the currency to appreciate as more awareness and adoption spill into this revolutionary offering of ours

how much EMC does the dev team own? Someone said roughly 85% was instamined in the first month or so. POS is really bad for coin where 1 group holds all the coins. They become the "biggest" miners and don't have to do a single thing (good for the inside group, bad for everyone else)

It's not conclusive by all means but the mintr.org explorer does list the Top100 EMC accounts at https://emercoin.mintr.org/top You can see there are a few large accounts. But I think this kind of distribution is fairly typical of almost every coin, including Bitcoin. Actually, I don't think the dev team mined as many as they would have liked. If I recall, it was months until their mining pool has any decent hash rate.

The emc community has been very generous, distributing emc through folding@home, various bounties, and multiple giveaways and faucets over the two years since release.

What's more is that that if you don't like the distribution then you can invest in another coin. But even then, you can still use EMC's services, such as decentralized domains, for only a few cents.

Personally, I'm hoping to see emc community grow and develop a thriving community of users and contributors. For instance, it would be great to see more developers working on code contributions, to improve on the security and functionality of the emc client. And I hope some new initiatives will be set up that reward such contributions. That's just what I would like to see.

Your words are well received Messy, especially regarding growing a thriving, vibrant community for Emercoin. This is a focus of mine this year as we transition into a top digital currency and blockchain platform. One area we do want to encourage involvement in is from developers who  can add to the EMC blockchain. We have many services and this has opened up opportunities to improve upon those services or add supporting services.

Having a core community that is involved in various social and developmental projects is a key driver of success in 2016 for Emercoin and I encourage all of you to jump in and offer whatever services, talents and ideas you may have. Now is the time, so let's work together and create a culture here at Emercoin.

You can check out the new video Emercoin just released showcasing the power of our blockchain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwnTD7bbvro

NICE introduction video! ;D

Emercoin in the news:  https://news.bitcoin.com/emercoin-setting-the-new-standard-for-top-blockchains/

I think the big thing keeping buyers away right now has to do with who owns the majority of the coins. I know some very good traders who aren't even turning their nose to this because of how sketchy distribution appears to be.

Emercoin is now available in the Charna cryptocurrency wallet:  https://charnawallet.biz/

If you want massive volume you should get the coin listed on the Chinese exchange btc38.com

The coins there trade in large quantities.

Emercoin Implements Solution To Reduce Blocksize Inflation:  http://cointelegraph.com/news/116067/emercoin-implements-solution-to-reduce-blocksize-inflation

Emercoin is now available on 1ex.Trade:    https://1ex.trade/?c_currency=47

Two good news. Keep on the great work.

Cheers buddys

whats next in pipeline, anything coming worth mentioning?

The volume for Emercoin is too low. It should be listed in poloniex and China for the coin to have more volume. Hopefully, more people will find out about Emercoin and understand about it.

A good place for advertisment?

I heard about Emercoin on a news story on the Microsoft Partnership and have been reading up on the coin ever since.  (that's how I found this thead)
I really like the concept of the coin, especially the EMC SSL, this is really spectacular IMO.
One thing I cannot seem to find the details on is, when Emercoin shares its Blockchain with Microsoft Azure as "BaaS" (blockchain as a service), how would this impact the actually demand on Emercoin? 

I would think that if a product decided to use (create) an EMC SSL cert, the end user, or company selling the product, would ultimately purchase an EMC coin, or several, for a single SSL cert?  I am trying to understand if there could truly be a demand created if a company had a product that required an EMC SSL cert. If they had 100,000 users, would this spawn a purchase (and hold) for each user of an EMC coin to maintain the cert?  Or would the EMC blockchain only handle the PoW/PoS and no EMC would ever be purchased?   

Is there any other item in the Emercoin concept that could potentially create a large demand?  Therefore driving the price up?

Some coins survive only on news and speculation. Hoping this one actually has natural demand due to outstanding concepts built into it.

Very charming news. Thanks for that.

http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/01/17/emercoin-reducing-blockchain-inflation-with-transaction-optimizer/

From my previous post...


I was able to find the answer on Emercoin's website:

http://emercoin.com/EMCSSL_GUIDE


This really creates a possible demand, depending on how/if the EMC SSL certs get used.

Just noticed https://coinreport.net/emercoin-cco-jason-cassidy-details-microsoft-partnership/ on reddit.com/r/EmerCoin

Reading this the emercoin price seems definitely underrated right now.

Ladies and Gentlemen,


If you have not yet done so, please fill out the "Coin Request" form on Poloniex. We are making a serious push to convince the staff @ Poloniex that Emercoin is a worthy addition to their exchange. Any and all help is appreciated, including any social media noise you can make!

https://poloniex.com/coinRequest

check

made my request

1. EMC² aint dead yet (but maybe) so please rebrand to EMER
2. Top 10 ... NO! ... Top 20 yeah even with the premine issue ... you've arrived ... so you got that going for you.


agree a solid code of SHA256 + POS is a strong combo ... how you stole the #2 slot from T3k is a bit of a stunner ... but EMER ran under the radar for at least a year ... made the right connections and has ''Blockchain innovation'' utility.

EMC2 was launched March 2014 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494708.0), wasn't it? EMC in December 2013 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=362513.0) ... from what I can see. Personally I don't think there's much confusion between EMC and EMC2 but just my opinion.

Requested! And I urge others to fill out their request form too. :)

It would be a good fit to see EMC on Poloniex. No doubt that the additional liquidity would bring along price stability.

well then buy it out and take the name :/

Centralization coin

Ladies and Gentlemen,



I would like to formally introduce you to the official Emercoin community forum:  http://emercointalk.org/index.php


We are growing in size and relevance very quickly and to accommodate for this growth we are creating a community for everyone to collaborate, join in on the action and have some fun in the process! Please join us over at the forum as we develop a family of contributors here. Many of you have brought forth some compelling ideas for promotion, technologies and business opportunities. We can use all of the help we can get right now so please jump right in!

Ladies and Gentlemen,


I am proud to announce that Emercoin has come to terms on an agreement with First Bitcoin Capital Corp. This is our initial foray with BITCF and we will be working alongside them in an evaluation capacity, with the goal of promoting Emercoin's many blockchain-based services to the public:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-bitcoin-capital-corp-signs-185600316.html


There has never been a better time to get involved with Emercoin. Please reach out to me if you would like to contribute somehow and please make sure you sign up and join the Emercoin community over at: http://emercointalk.org/index.php

Great NEWS! To the MOON, EMC ::)

Very good news. In addition to the Microsoft news a very good January.
But what was happening with the price today?
The volatility seems to be crazy, a loss of 41% in price since yesterday...  :o :(

Emercoin in Forbes, going into detail regarding our partnership with Open Ledger on the Bitshares 2.0 platform:


http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2016/02/08/microsoft-partner-emercoin-joins-cryptos-openledger-to-deliver-robust-blockchain-services/#463a44644407

Wow, this are very exciting news. Getting into Forbes with a Cryptocurreny. Well done.
You have done a lot of media work within the last weeks. Looking forward to a market cap of more than 15 million  :)

News update:


Emercoin (EMC) is now listed on Shapeshift: https://shapeshift.io/

I started another thread because I missed this one.  I've been watching your coin, and bought some yesterday to store on your node/wallet.  I will admit that my main concern is that you seem to be slower than normal in the news cycle, and you are falling behind in market cap.  Things move faster in this space nowadays.  People are picking their favorites / winners.  Emercoin seems to have a lot of promise, but you are still dropping back.  Tell me why I should HODL?

1. In regards to Poloneix and other exchanges, we have been in constant communication with the top 100 exchanges regarding listing. In the end the decision lies with the exchange operators to list EMC.



2. The Emercoin-QT issue being reported by users regarding sync'ing issues has been experienced by myself and a few others. We are taking a closer look at this and hope to have it resolved in the next wallet release. I can tell you that doing my own troubleshooting I have realized it only happens for me when in Minting mode and does not actually impede the minting process (I still minted a block while the client 'appeared' to be re-synching the blokcchain).

It is a visual issue only and not performance related, so far that is what I have determined on my own.



3. Thanks to each and every single one of you for your support, feedback and ideas as we build Emercoin into a household name in the digital currency landscape. There are some very positive and major growth currently taking place internally, so I ask you all to continue with your patience and support while this evolution takes form. Rest assured that we are constantly putting efforts into innovating and all feedback left here and the official Emercoin forum is taken into account.  (http://emercointalk.org/index.php)

As well, feel free to send us an email at Team@Emercoin.com if you have any helpful suggestions or feel you can contribute in some way. We are very busy however this is something we are looking to change as we grow so our capacity to work with the community will increase in lockstep. Personally, I feel the community is critical for our long term success so please spread the word. You are all extremely early to what is going to be a hell of an adventure.

Happy to have you all aboard.



- Jason (KarmaShark)

From the Announcement thread:



Good Day,


We are proud to announce that Emercoin will be launching its blockchain research and development lab. The lab will open later this year to facilitate the further development and monetization of Emercoin’s existing blockchain services as well as the creation of many new synergizing technologies. This will also open the door to outside investment, new partnerships, satellite offices and global talent acquisition. Several key projects are already lined up in Emercoin’s development staging area and will began kick-off upon the official launch of the lab.


https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/emercoin-to-launch-blockchain-rd-lab/

This is Excellent news indeed!  The Emercoin Blockchain is leading the way in innovation and this lab will ensure it stays as a top relevant blockchain's for years to come!

Great work Emercoin Team!

I'm no longer convinced that all these 'alts' are in any way relevant.

Then again I have similar feelings about BTC as well in the long term.

Emercoin has just got listed on BTC38 - One of the largest exchanges in the World:


http://www.btc38.com/trade.html?mk_type=btc&btc38_trade_coin_name=EMC

Win free EMC by taking part in the 1000 Idea Emercoin contest running now:


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1415449.msg14340318#msg14340318

Emercoin integrating merged mining with Bitcoin - ETA 1-2 months development time:


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1516242.0

Any new news on EMC coins ? Seems very quiet on any new development about this