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Earthcoin is dead.  Long live Earthcoin!


By Jay Kevin "Biomech" Putzier



The scuttlebutt says the coin is dead. Prices dropping into the teens, maybe lower. Too much production, not enough demand, and where the hell are the devs?

Further, they say that the hype is all we got going on for us. And the hype is dead. Great promise, they say, but now it's nothing.

I know you've heard it all. And amidst it, desperate cries for the developers to "do something" right now. Pump it up, make it smaller, make it bigger, do this, do that.. do something!!!

And of course, each camp with their pet theories, convinced that they are the saviours, and that ONLY their solution can possibly rescue Earthcoin.

Trouble with that is that in addition to calling for contradictory things, they are attempting to, to put it bluntly, put a band-aid on a sucking chest wound.

But what if the patient don't need a band-aid? What if there is not sucking chest wound? What if things are actually going according to the original vision, and just not happening as fast as we'd all like? Rome was not built in a day, and neither will Earthcoin's ecosystem.

The original vision of this coin is a global currency, used for trade and charity. Not just a thing to exchange on a currency exchange to get more bitcoin! There are hundreds of coins whose only purpose is just that. Maybe they had some vision, though a great many appear to just be a lark for people to play with. It's nice to have and play with shiny things, but that's not the purpose of Earthcoin.

The vision, to be very blunt, is a hell of a lot bigger than that. We envision a time when Bitcoins, Dollars, Euros and what have you are traded on exchanges where the BASE of the pair is Earthcoin. To make this happen, we need as a community to do some thinking, and some things.

The development team is indeed looking into various technical issues, securing the network being the primary one. From our side, we now have a dedicated team updating the wallet. It will include the latest code from the "standard" templates as well as our own very robust difficulty retargeting. It is right now, as you read this, being coded and tested. It will very soon be released, and yes, that will mean a hard fork. Not a big issue, really, and ample warning will be given. This will help to close any issues with securing the network.

However, this is only part of what needs to happen. Miners, this network is currently vulnerable due to it's size. We need asic farms online ASAP, with a good portion of their hashrate pointed at bitcoin. With a big enough farm of gridseeds, you can successfully and profitably solo mine, which further decentralizes and secures the network. We need to get this network big enough, quick, that nobody can take control of it via a 51% attack.

Also, on difficulty retargeting. Our tech experts have informed me in no uncertain terms that Kimoto's Gravity Well, which several of you have called for, has several serious vulnerabilities, including one known as a "time warp" attack. I don't understand it well enough to comment on it, yet, but it can cause forks. Our built in code, however, retargets both better and with far less vulnerability. It has been thoroughly tested and has passed with flying colors. It does what KGW is supposed to do, and it does it without the vulnerabilities.

Once that is done, and this can be ongoing, we need MERCHANTS! Lots of them. The more, the merrier, as the saying goes. Got something you know how to make? Especially something you can make by recycling what would normally go in the landfill? All the better that you make it and sell it for EAC. And HOLD that EAC while we grow, if at all possible. Exchange enough to replensish your materials and meet your expenses, certainly, but hold back most of it and sell it dear when you do sell it. Just because the multipools are willing to dump any coin at any price doesn't mean jack to our vision. They drive down the exchanges because they are solely interested in bitcoin. If we start branding Earthcoin as a true competitor, and following through, you'll see that change. You'll see them start to pay out in EAC instead of or alongside BTC, and they won't be selling it at the lowest possible cost just to move it. But even if they do, and you have other options, why sell it low? Who cares what they do? So they sacrifice their ten minutes worth. If we build a merchant ecosystem, then we don't NEED the exchanges, we get goods, services, silver, gold, land... Whatever. We make it a real currency, and the daytraders and multipools will become irrelevant. They'll also love us, because we'll drive the price up. Dramatically.

I recently started a separate thread with a list of the current merchants who accept Earthcoin. It had a couple errors in it as some had dropped out. It's still a fair list, but it has a problem. It's too short. There are a little over a dozen merchants accepting Earthcoin right now. There should be hundreds, building towards thousands. We at Team Earthcoin are working on this, but you need to as well. As mentioned above, you can do it yourself. You can also encourage people and businesses you know to take it either as full or partial payment for their goods and services. Earthcoin is traded on exchanges, thus has a real world value. Wider adoption will only drive the price higher. Think globally, but act locally. If every miner of Earthcoin, every holder of earthcoin, and every supporter or Earthcoin recruited JUST ONE business, we'd rival Bitcoin in acceptance in very short order. Think what you could do if you recruited two. Three. See what I mean? The problem isn't oversupply, it's underutilization. The Earth is abundant, and so is it's coin. This makes it useful for large and small transactions, and everything in between.

Go to It! We are!

Kevin Biomech for Team Earthcoin.

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Much to-do has been made about "ASIC resistance" based on two terminally flawed ideas. One, that increasing the hashrate while reducing power consumption is somehow a bad thing, and two, that Scrypt was very difficult to implement an ASIC for.

Ladies, Gentlemen, whatever you are in front of center stage, I give you the Gridseed. Well, I don't give it to you, because it ain't free. But it's not ridiculously expensive either. It costs about the same as it's equivalent GPU, and consumes a pittance of electricity. Not only is resistance futile, it's wrong headed.

ASIC's are an advancement in technology over the GPU. Putting it in mining terms, a CPU is a gold pan, and a GPU is a sluice box. An ASIC is a 10" dredge! While I suppose there could be some arguments in favor of keeping one coin or another somehow resistant to ASIC's, those arguments most assuredly do not apply to Earthcoin. We are about sustainability, wide distribution, and playing an important role in developing nations. GPU's don't meet these criteria. They are expensive to run,. Noisy, hot, and generally a pain in the environment. Any environment! Gridseeds and their successors, by contrast, are quiet, cheap to run, and massively efficient per joule. There is no good argument against their use for Earthcoin. They will secure the network in short order. They are small enough and cheap enough to keep the "hobby" miner in business, and they are so easy to power that off grid systems are a real possibility, which is great since we are focused on the emerging economies in the developing world! We ar not some super elite group that wants to deny access to everyone but a chose few. We are not a novelty who's value is dependent on extreme scarcity or eccentricity, we are EARTHCOIN.

ASIC's are your friend! The advent of SHA ASIC's rendered the bitcoin blockchain nearly invulnerable to any traditional attack. It would take the combined efforts of most of the world's government's computing power to even make a dent in the code, let alone execute a 51% attack. Even if they were successful, it would only be for minutes, as there are enough miners in enough locales to simply pull off that chain. This is not the case with Scrypt. Any government that wanted to could fork a coin right now. Any corporation that wanted to, could do the same. All they'd need is to buy a shitload of GPU's. They wouldn't even have to be the latest and greatest, just a lot of them. Gridseed has changed that. Very soon, those coins worth securing will be secured. Those who have something to offer, will be mined with ASIC's. Today, Gridseed. In a few months, Alpha-T and KNC. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Bitmain got in on that action either.

Further, those of you grumbling about how they are going to kill your GPU profits? Buy a couple of 'em and you'll profit much longer. Find a way to power it off grid, and you'll profit even longer than that! You'll hit a point in the difficulty curve where your GPU's are just sucking too much electricity real fast. But 7 watts for 350 KH/s? That is going to go for a long time. And those are just the first generation. Nothing terribly special about them other than being the first to market. Give it a few months, and they will look terrible.

In short, there is no reason to fear the ASIC invasion. It will, in fact, ensure the success of Earthcoin's network far more than any other fix we can envision, because it will make it nearly invulnerable to attack. Given our robust difficulty retargiting algorithm, it will happen quickly and seemlessly.

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Ladies, Gentlemen, You over there in the corner,

Greetings!

The accounting/premine issue has plagued us from both sides of the floor. Mistakes were made, people were frightened, and a lot of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt came to be cast upon this worthy project. Some of it was founded, much was not, but in the silence, the issue became deafening.

So without further ado, we'd like to announce a clear and transparent future.

The original team consisted of two people who never met in person but communicated through the online forum BitcoinTalk.

Norb was in charge of marketing, graphics and communication. “John” was the coin developer and he wished to remain completely anonymous even to his own team.  Although Norb is still involved with Earthcoin, he is encouraging the community to take it forward into the future.  “John” has decided to leave claiming personality clashes were the issue. These things happen, and it led to problems that couldn't be resolved. See Link

Going forward, we will be very open and detailed in the way bounties are paid, what the criteria are for claiming them, and the specific transactions involved. Due to the chaos of the past, and the fact that some of those involved may wish to remain anonymous, we are showing what monies have been spent upon bounties in aggregate. Anyone who has been bountied and wishes to make it public is free to do so, and we would encourage it, but we will not demand it of you.

The amount spent on bounties from the original premine was approximately 70,000,000EAC.This figure is very close, and as accurate as the mess we’re cleaning up allows.  The remaining premine monies will be disbursed at the discretion of the Earthcoin Team, and will be detailed in our newsletter on an ongoing basis. If a bounty is claimed by someone who wishes to remain anonymous, we will respect this and only show the amount paid and what it was paid for. We would prefer to make the transactions public to the extent possible, but in all cases the accounting will now be done in a transparent and timely fashion.

This issue must be mitigated as best we can, both by us and by you, the community, if Earthcoin is going to amount to something. We can fight amongst ourselves while another coin takes our place, or we can band together and make THIS the coin that everyone knows about, and uses.

For my part, I think Earthcoin is a great idea with a great community. Let's put this harsh time behind us, and move forward and make this the single greatest currency ever. One day, Bitcoin will be outcompeted. The only thing stopping us from making that assent to the throne is our will, or lack thereof.

These are great days. Trying days, as great ones often are, but that's what makes life worth living. You won't tell your grandchildren tales of the easy days sipping coffee, you'll tell them about the struggles, the tribulations, and ultimately, the triumphs.

Thank you family.
The EAC Team.

Earthcoin. THE global currency of the future!

How does Earthcoin's hashrate compare to e.g. Litecoin and DOGE?

Can it act as a child/secondary chain in merged mining, so that it can benefit from the hashing power of other scrypt coins, or is its goal to fragment the scrypt space and require miners to add to the Earth's burden of electricity use instead of re-cycling the existing supply of hashpower/electricity-use?

Presumably the idea of in effect "recycling" hashes thus in a sense the electricity used to generate hashes, is something Earthcoin is eagerly in favour of, right up its alley so to speak?

So that we will see it become a major proponent, possibly the major proponent, of merged mining?

Imagine all the scrypt coins, or all that matter anyway going forward, all being able to help support the Earth by including Earthcoin in their merge when mining!

How can Earthcoin possibly resist such a vision? Let alone oppose it?

-MarkM-

hadn't thought of it, but it seems a ridiculously good idea!

EDIT: I posted it up for the team in our dev chat. We'll see if we got what it takes.

Earthcoin is up almost 100% on April Fools Day.
Earthcoin is not dead
Long live Earthcoin!

nice!

Some great posts & its this support for Earthcoin that made me decide to sell a significant number of other altcoins & 'jump ship' so to speak 24 hours ago. Looks like I bought just at the right time for a change  ;D

We're certainly trying!

Thanks for the support!

supporting this!

Fix forum registration!

Huh? at earthcointalk? PM Centurion if there's a problem, but it was fine a couple days ago.

Lots of new things on the horizon!  EAC could always factor in to ANY of it ;)

lol . why did you bother posting. the pump is over. dump was successful.

Not particularly interested in the day to day swings. Working toward and uptrend requires a focus well outside of the exchanges, and instead building the coin into something useful and useable in the real world. That takes time. It seems to have stabilized for the moment at a rather low value. For those interested in the brand, that's an opportunity. I'm buying as much as I can get at the low prices, and when we get it working at various shops and person to person, the value will rise in accordance with it's utility.

If day trade is all you're interested in, this is probably the wrong coin for you. If it's only one facet, stay tuned :D

Nothing's wrong with having a purpose on a coins.it's all i want on all coins.

 I just wanted to point out that your post seems directly proportional to the pump and dump.

Oh. I see what you're saying now :D

Pure coincidence. I wrote all of that a few days prior. It was supposed to be for the first newsletter, but I got delayed as well as some technical issues, so I decided that something was better than nothing. I'm still working on doing a regular newsletter, and the rest of the team is engaged in several things as well. Just didn't want to be silent, and it seemed a new thread for news was a better idea than it getting buried in the main thread.

So, until I get the newsletter right, I'll just be updating either here or in new threads. I hadn't actually thought out how it would look during the little trade game.

It will be interesting to see if the Earthcoin team can put their crypto where their mouth is and start getting some results. Did I hear something about an internship thing?

You probably did; I posted about it in another thread. Our plan is to provide a way for unpaid interns to support themselves even when their employers are being stubborn about paying them. You can see the details here: https://earthcointalk.org/earthcoin-program-to-support-unpaid-interns/

Oh...I see. Sounds like you've got some leg work to do before Earthcoin is widely accepted by those retailers you mentioned. I like the looks of Earthazaar, though.

I'll acknowledge that we do. We've been working on reaching out to retailers to see if they might be interested. Earthazaar is actually part of our plan -- think of it as an alternative to eBay where you can accept Earthcoin as payment.

I see. Good luck, and if you need any writing services for your plan, PM me and we can work something out.

I like that earthcoin is still going strong.

But where are we going?

Planning new apps and regional hubs to support larger projects for mainstream adoption - all now in the works. We'll update regularly.

If you have questions or comments in the meantime, you can write to earthcoin@earthcointalk.org. Or go to our forum https://earthcointalk.org/

The forum includes private groups where we are working on the coin's current projects.

We have a great community which has also set up a community center - all newcomers are welcome to establish and build public projects which we will support: https://earthcointalk.org/groups/community-center/

And I thought OPECcoin was ambitious.
Clearly, Earthcoin is on a whole different league.  ;D

It just kept dropping in price without any significant ups and downs. There were no significant day to day swings!

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Some of us are away on holiday, but the beat goes on ...

News and Updates!

• 1. Earthcoin is expanding the images and materials we use to reach people
  in different regions of the world. We made a call for regional
  designs, elemental logos, projects reflecting local cultural lore of
  our planet on deviantART: http://earthcoin.deviantart.com/journal/Earthcoin-s-Regional-Designs-468613130
• 2. Our logos are in English - we are looking for translators to translate logos and the mission statement:
  http://getearthcoin.com/eac_marketing.html
  If you have visual ideas or graphic designs that you want to
  contribute: please submit them to the EarthcoinGroup at deviantART:
  http://earthcoingroup.deviantart.com/
• 3. We are very pleased to announce that Earthcoin has been added to the
  Chinese exchange BTC38, one of the biggest altcoin exchanges in the
  world. Thanks to takako for help - and to everyone who voted! The listing led to a price jump of several satoshis.
  https://twitter.com/btc38com/status/489977313824497664
  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=522458.0
  
• 4. The Chinese Earthcoin group raised EAC 11 million to further promote EAC on BTC38.
• 5. http://ceuservers.net/ now accepts Earthcoin for their dedicated servers.
• 6. Earthcoin has a dedicated page for Chinese EAC links, exchanges and forums
  https://earthcointalk.org/earthcoin-links-chinese/
  Chinese Contact: https://earthcointalk.org/members/takako/
• 7. Non-team news: Earthcoin wallpaper and stl. file for 3D printing now
  available for download on http://www.bitpla.net/2014/07/earthcoin.html
  Now you can make your own physical Earthcoin
• 8. Earthcoin is proud to announce its new French-speaking hub Earthcoin: Francophonie
  https://earthcointalk.org/forums/topic/new-hub-earthcoin-francophonie/
  French EAC Links: https://earthcointalk.org/earthcoin-links-french/
  Announcement in French section of bitcointalk:
  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=705716.msg7976505#msg7976505
  French Contact: https://earthcointalk.org/members/rachimo/
  

Questions? Suggestions to TamB, EAC Publicity Officer: earthcoin@earthcointalk.org

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Team EAC updates for the week starting July 27, 2014:

• 1. EAC's dedicated song 'Imagine a World' reissued with Chinese subtitles
  http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzQ1MzIxNjQ0.html
  https://earthcointalk.org/forums/topic/imagine-a-world/
• 2. Earthcoin Canada hub founded, announced on Canadian crypto forum coinforum.ca
  https://www.coinforum.ca/discussion/1809/earthcoin-official-thread?new=1
  https://www.coinforum.ca/discussion/1808/altcoin-annonce-earthcoin-francophonie#latest
  https://www.facebook.com/earthcoincanada.eac?fref=ts
  https://twitter.com/EarthcoinCanada
• 3. Earthcoin is pleased to announce the start of its hub, Earthcoin
  Arabia with Arabic translation of EAC logos:
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxh2zZYSu_F-VGpTeEJzM3dkRjQ/edit?usp=sharing
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxh2zZYSu_F-YmRqUHQxRno5Q2s/edit?usp=sharing
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxh2zZYSu_F-VVVId1ZxQzJtcTQ/edit?usp=sharing
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxh2zZYSu_F-WGF1eVVNYU1qUU0/edit?usp=sharing
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxh2zZYSu_F-cUNxSUFBWjlaWGc/edit?usp=sharing
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxh2zZYSu_F-d3J3Rk9hWE82cGM/edit?usp=sharing
  A zip file will be placed on getearthcoin.com for downloading
• 4. Earthcoin has a new dedicated Chinese blog
  http://blog.sina.com.cn/earthcoin
  
• 5. Earthcoin has now been added as a payment option for http://healthiverse.net/
• 6. The gallery for Earthcoin group at deviantART has been updated, get all your EAC graphics here and add new ones
  http://earthcoingroup.deviantart.com/gallery/
• 7. Earthcoin is being added to Nxt's decentralized exchange, http://multigateway.com/ there are no trading fees for supported coins
• 8. Reminder that that the EAC devs set up this site
  http://earthcoin.uservoice.com/forums/237376-general
  to ask for feedback from the community about what community members want to see from the coin
• 9. Reminder that the sign up deadline for students and former students to participate in this year's annual Earthcoin Matches Your Student Loan Program is August 1, 2014 https://earthcointalk.org/earthcoin-student-loan/

Thank you to Takako, Rachimo, Tjs, Lesoros, Gordon, Centurion and especially to Mango Graphics in the UK for help with the Arabic logos.

Questions? Suggestions to TamB, EAC Publicity Officer: earthcoin@earthcointalk.org

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Team EAC updates for the week starting August 3, 2014:

• 1. This week was (nearly) Lost in Translation.
  EAC's logos are in English. No longer! We are translating them into the world's languages. Graphic artist Hexomachina has VERY kindly agreed to help. Please donate EAC to his wallet: ejSdJv31N5ZmRsgB47wLDuvW4VuoXPsz8X
• 2. Hexo can do the graphics work, but he needs linguistic translations from native speakers. If you want to help translate our marketing assets page (http://getearthcoin.com/marketing-assets), we will send you a nice EAC tip. The page we need translated is here (showing the Greek translation): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxh2zZYSu_F-eDVKRjRYUVp6WmYzLTliZWRQY1IyN3A5NDdR/edit?usp=sharing
  We also need the mission statement translated: http://getearthcoin.com/mission-statement
• 3. Please tip the EAC translators who helped so far!
  https://earthcointalk.org/forums/topic/translation-of-logos-calling-on-your-language-skills/#post-7840
• 4. Earthcoin Greece kicks off. Mission statement, a new forum, logos on the way, and a special EAC Greece project to follow.
  EAC Mission statement in Greek
  https://earthcointalk.org/forums/topic/earthcoin-mission-statement/
  EAC Greek forum
  https://earthcointalk.org/forums/forum/earthcoin-local/%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C/
• 5. Earthcoin China's team translated the EAC logo suite into Chinese.
• 6. We will post translated marketing suites here:
  http://earthcoingroup.deviantart.com/gallery/
  http://getearthcoin.com/marketing-assets
  https://earthcointalk.org/marketing-assets/
• 7. Earthcoin America hub soon to launch. This is a special EAC team dealing with America's concerns. Get in touch if you want to join us.
• 8. Earthcoin America's first initiative calls crypto supporters who are from Detroit or who are familiar with the city. Please contact us for the upcoming project: Earthcoin Supports the Urban Farms of Detroit.
• 9. Earthcoin Canada's first  project soon to launch, a model for freezing countries everywhere! The Earthcoin Canada Winter Heating Initiative. Please contact us if you would like to help develop this project.
• 10. Are there new apps in development? Answer: Yes. Is more than that in development? Answer: Yes. When will you find out? Soon!
• 11. Reminder that our marketplace Earthazaar (https://earthazaar.com/shop/) welcomes new merchants and we accept other cryptos: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin
  https://earthazaar.com/earthazaar-now-accepts-several-digital-currencies-for-payments/
• 12. CryptoShoppers now carries EAC merchandise! Buy our cool t-shirts - you can pay in EAC or other cryptocurrencies
  http://cryptoshoppers.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=163&search=eac
  http://cryptoshoppers.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=164&search=eac
• 13. Christopher Lawson carried news of the EAC student loans project on Dump Your Student Loan Debt http://paper.li/FinancialEvoGrp/1340118720
  There's still time to sign up. We'll match your loan:
  https://earthcointalk.org/earthcoin-student-loan/
• 14. Balances will soon include Earthcoin
  https://twitter.com/balancesapp/status/496805991451607040
  https://balances.io/
• 15. Reminder that the devs check this site for feedback from the Earthcoin community
  http://earthcoin.uservoice.com/forums/237376-general
• 16. What does Earthcoin stand for? It's not blind, naked, selfish greed. We see a lot of criticism of fiat, but we remember that fiat started out with hope, confidence and optimism. Avoid the old system's fatal mistakes. We think about money differently. If you reinvented the economy: https://earthcointalk.org/forums/topic/if-you-reinvented-the-economy/#post-7811
• 17. Earthcoin Supports Disaster Relief
  https://earthcointalk.org/earthcoin-supports-disaster-relief/
  The Earthcoin developers will raise funds for accredited charities and approved relief efforts in the event of earthquakes, floods, fires, violent weather disasters and other natural crises. We will support first responders and their canine units, medical and humanitarian aid, food, water and shelter for displaced people and animals, and similar services. Earthcoin’s regional hubs will handle charitable outreach in these cases to target local needs.
• 18. EARTHCOIN CHINA ACTION
  On August 3, 2014, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred in Ludian County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan province China, causing terrible damage in a vulnerable rural area. At the time of this announcement, it has killed 589+ people.
  
  Earthcoin China is handling our response to this disaster.
  Contact for EAC China, Takako: https://earthcointalk.org/members/takako/
  Please donate EAC to support relief for this disaster to Takako’s Earthcoin wallet; he will confirm all transactions and where your donations are sent: eZNpYipCrCnotBLddGwsR3wHZnELoKQakP

Thank you this week to Fyllis, Linki, Takako, Tjs, Lesoros, Gordon, Centurion and Hexomachina.

Questions? Suggestions to TamB, EAC Publicity Officer: earthcoin@earthcointalk.org

Your efforts are impressive, keep up the good work.  :)

Thank you!  :)

Great work! :)

Earthcoin America, I highly recommend that you contact Karen De Coster from LewRockwell.com and Detroit: Rust to Riches. She's a huge supporter of the anarchistic renewal going on in Detroit.

I am too.

OK - thanks!

can't believe that this coin is still alive!

It's croaking. Don't write a coin off while it's still croaking  ;D

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Team EAC updates for the week starting August 10, 2014:

• 1. Do we have a big vision? You bet we do! Tweet of the week: 'From the moon, you can still see the Earth rise’ https://twitter.com/getearthcoin/status/498302048983855105
• 2. What's up with our local hubs and translations? Why are we setting these groups up? The crypto world is struggling with the problem of centralized organization. Earthcoin matches its decentralized technology with a decentralized community! Where others talk decentralization and then create a fiat-styled centralized system, we say what we mean and we do it. An upcoming Earthcoin white paper will provide our protocol to answer the very human problem of crypto decentralization
• 3. Our regional hubs mirror that decentralized plan. We are expanding our local forums https://earthcointalk.org/forums/forum/earthcoin-local/
• 4. Earthcoin China has raised an amazing EAC 5.1 million to aid victims of the Yunnan earthquake! Please donate more to this EAC wallet: eZNpYipCrCnotBLddGwsR3wHZnELoKQakP
  We are one of very few coins contributing to this effort: http://www.btc38.com/gongyi/gy_show.html?id=5
  https://earthcointalk.org/forums/topic/earthcoin-supports-disaster-relief-action-for-earthquake-in-china/#post-7856
• 5. The Earthcoin China team has been busy translating our weekly newsletters into Chinese. http://bit.ly/1p5frEd
• 6. Reminder that Chinese EAC links are here
  https://earthcointalk.org/earthcoin-links-chinese/
• 7. Earthcoin Newsletter translated into French
  https://earthcointalk.org/forums/topic/earthcoin-francophonie/#post-7908
  https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=21229.0
  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=705716.0
  https://coinforum.ca/discussion/1808/altcoin-annonce-earthcoin-francophonie#latest
• 8. Earthcoin Francophonie joins cryptofr.com
  http://www.cryptofr.com/topic/106/earthcoin-francophonie-creation-d-un-hub-francophone
• 9. Reminder that French EAC links are here
  https://earthcointalk.org/earthcoin-links-french/
• 10: EAC logos and infographics are being translated by graphics artist Hexomachina! https://earthcointalk.org/forums/topic/translation-of-logos-calling-on-your-language-skills/#post-7889
• 11. Several members of the EAC community and our devs kindly contributed to Hexomachina's, George's and Takako's wallets for graphics logo translation, gif creation, and Chinese earthquake relief respectively
• 12. We are calling for translators of our mission statement, logos, infographics, and newsletters https://earthcointalk.org/forums/topic/translation-of-newsletters-more-language-skills/
• 13. In development: Earthcoin America. Calling for someone to head Earthcoin America, with projects dealing with the USA's mighty economic issues! The EAC pilot project focuses on Detroit urban farms. Already available from EAC: we match your student loans. Under consideration: an EAC plan to aid people struggling with payday loans. Please step up.
• 14. In development: Earthcoin Canada's winter heating project
• 15. Also in development: Earthcoin Greece
• 16. EAC gifs in production by georgem! https://earthcointalk.org/forums/topic/amazing-earthcoin-gifs/
• 17. We offer bounties to those who build the EAC blog, vlog, webring, comms, graphics and media outreach. Contact us if you have these skills
• 18. Calling all tech devs! We have exciting Android and iPhone apps in development and offer bounties
• 19. A reminder that Cryptoshoppers offers EAC merchandise and accepts EAC
  http://cryptoshoppers.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=163&search=eac
  http://cryptoshoppers.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=164&search=eac
• 20. Bigger: We have an innovation on the table that will blow your minds. It will take your breath away. To quote Centurion: "Go big or go home."
• 21. Foundation apps for this larger project have already been in R&D for months and are being consolidated for mainstream adoption. These high profile, top publicity capabilities will deliver on Earthcoin's mission statement priorities: a redefinition of profit for a decentralized and deflationary world, righting injustices exposed during the recession, sustainable development, education, humanitarian, environmental and charitable causes, and global connectivity. We will un-fiat you, de-materialize you and un-market you, and you will feel better. Anonymity, sophisticated tech advancements and branded communities are all hot priorities in the crypto scene, but so is hard core mainstream adoption. This is not adoption for adoption's sake to promote our coin, but adoption to solve real world problems. The difference is the way Earthcoin does it: our projects build mainstream EAC adoption and solve niche problems in the fiat economy in constructive, imaginative ways. See our projects section on earthcointalk
• 22. To all long term and high net investors in Earthcoin, please PM us regarding an account pool we are generating to raise the coin's value and the value of your investment (earthcoin@earthcointalk.org)
• 23. Cryptozark is taking over on comms for the next few weeks from TamB (EAC Publicity/Strategy). Since Biomech stepped down due to IRL work demands, we are offering a bounty for a daily Communications Officer

Thank you this week to Wes, Biomech, Cryptozark, Rachimo, Fyllis, Takako, Lesoros, Gordon, Tjs, Centurion, Hexomachina and George.

Questions? Suggestions to Cryptozark (EAC Projects/Strategy): earthcoin@earthcointalk.org