Slight hold-up here as Crysx has seemed to have disappeared. Doing my best, please bear with me. Thank you in advance for your patience.


EDIT: MAC wallet is done. But no wallets can be released until the seednodes are ready.

EDIT 2: Still waiting and looking for Crysx. I was talking to him in skype an hour before. He told me he was building and went offline. Sorry for the continued delay.

EDIT 3: Please hang tight. I do want to bring the network back online in full strength.

Just under an hour to go. The only thing not in place at this time is the MAC wallet but it is actively being worked on.

It is best to stop your wallet within the hour, before 05:00 GMT. At that time, crysx and I will be tending to the seednodes. I will post links to the v1.5 wallets just as soon as the seednodes are ready to support them. This window of time should be brief, 5 to 10 minutes. I will update you if it runs longer than that for any reason.

With about 5 hours to go until the network upgrade and hardfork, I am pleased to announce EverGreenCoin v1.5 wallets are ready and everything will be going to plan.



EDIT: Compatibility issue with the MAC wallet. Working on rectifying it now.

Quoting the above just to reiterate. To summarise briefly, at 05:00 GMT: 1) Seednodes will be stopped. 2) Seednodes are started with v1.5. 3) v1.5 wallets and source code made public. 4) The EverGreenCoin blockchain continues with only v1.5 wallets.

Bittrex and C-Cex are on standby for the code to be made public. Cryptopia has told me the admins are aware. YoBit, to little surprise, has yet to respond. After 05:00 GMT, please do not send to or try to send from any wallet, exchange, or service provider that has not been confirmed on version 1.5. Announcements will be made when they are confirmed.

If at any time you have an issue, please do not hesitate to ask for assistance. If you stop your wallet prior to 05:00 GMT and do not run it again until after you have upgraded, you should have no issue but in the event you do, many people will be ready to assist. Again, you can upgrade to v1.5 at your convenience after it is released, but do stop your existing EverGreenCoin wallet prior to 05:00 GMT or you will need to resync after you upgrade.

EDIT: Thanks everyone. This should go as seamlessly as possible.

Thanks for the concern, gents! ... I will make more coffee. 

Speaking of 20 hours, under 20 hours until....   

All the pieces are ready. Just ironing out one cosmetic blemish on the Qt wallets before the final builds are built. Alerts have been raised everywhere. All hands are on-deck. Absolutely no reason this will not be successful. Thank you, all!

I might even get a few hours sleep. 8 perhaps, if I could contain my excitement.

I think this is how I looked yesterday after about 20+ hours straight of C coding to get an enhancement into the wallet prior to the time of the big bang.

Ok, I confess. There is a small amount of secretiveness going on.   But only done in the best interest of the community. 

Welcome to the EverGreenCoin community and thank you for investing in EverGreenCoin!

Hi Daedalus27,

EverGreenCoin will always remain open source software. As explained, we are getting ready for a network protocol upgrade and a hardfork and this code cannot be made public until we are ready for these things to occur. As stated, that will be shortly after Saturday, February 18th at 05:00 GMT. This is not done to be secretive or closed source at all, but rather to execute properly and successfully.

So the community is aware, the people that do have access to the private repo now are myself, Chicago, Mammix, Crysx, and Brooks. Only Chicago and I are actively working on the code at this time, but the others will help later and do need access to test, compile, and deploy v1.5.

Rest assured, EverGreenCoin will always be green, caring for mother earth, its people, our environment and most definitely, open sourced.

So the community is aware, I will be making the EverGreenCoin github repo private tomorrow. I am getting ready to push the preliminary v1.5 source code and this code does need to remain private and out of public use until the time of the network upgrade. If any established member of the community would like to peer review the v1.5 code while it is private repo'ed, please PM me.

At this time I am announcing, the network upgrade will happen on Saturday, February 18th at 05:00 GMT. At that time all seednodes will be stopped and that block height will be the last block on the, what will become, old network protocol version (80000). When all seednodes are running properly on the new network protocol version (80015), EverGreenCoin Version 1.5 wallets will be released and the repo made public again. There will be a brief window of time while backups of the blockchain are made for historical purposes and the new v1.5 daemons are brought online. Ever effort will be made to make this window short and of course, I will be in communication during it.

What does this mean? You need to have stopped your EverGreenCoin wallet prior to Saturday, February 18th at 05:00 GMT and not run it again until after you have upgraded to version 1.5. At that time (Saturday, February 18th at 05:00 GMT, aka 'big bang' time) and going forward, all versions of EverGreenCoin wallets other than version 1.5 will not work. Your old executable file (v1.3 - v1.4.2) will be useless and should be deleted (DO NOT delete your wallet.dat file) after so you do not accidentally run it ever again. Upgrading will be simple, you will only need to run the new v1.5 executable that will be made available. If you do run your existing version (v1.3 - v1.4.2) past February 18th at 05:00 GMT, you will need to resync after you have upgraded. In any event, your EverGreenCoin are safe. As with any upgrade, it is advisable to make a backup of your wallet.dat file prior to upgrading, just to be safe.

This time is subject to change, but only if absolutely needed. If you have any questions or confusion, please do not hesitate to ask either publicly or privately.

The only web wallet for EverGreenCoin is PoSwallet.com, where your coins are group staked with other user's coins. But yes, you would be relying on their security as you would an exchange's.

There is no needed configuration of the desktop wallet. Seednodes are programmed into the wallet. It would even be staking by default 24 hours after your coins are deposited into your desktop wallet. Encyrpting the wallet is advisable and very simple, click the "settings" menu and select "encrypt wallet", then follow the prompts. However, your desktop wallet will need to sync with the network and that is a time consuming process.

To your original question, the answer is still yes. Your coins will be safe at Bittrex during the network upgrade. It is good you now understand the risks involved with any exchange. To add to what abyaby123 said, exchanges and service providers are also an attractive target for hackers. That said, Bittrex practices stringent security measures and is one of the more trusted exchanges.

Welcome to the EverGreenCoin community, rotzbouf. Thanks for joining us.

Absolutely yes. Your EverGreenCoin are absolutely safe at Bittrex. Bittrex is already aware of the plans and on standby for the announcement of the exact time.

Rest assured, your EverGreenCoin will be absolutely safe.

FLDC, along with EGC, got mentioned in a bitcoin meetup in the Netherlands on the 9th of this month. A friend of mine shared this picture with me and I thought I would share it here for the FLDC community.

The topic of the presentation was the negative impacts of cryptocurrency in regards to, what some would consider, wasteful use of electricity. FLDC was mentioned as one of the projects trying to better this.

I was honored to see EGC mentioned alongside FLDC. Keep up the great work FLDC!

Yes, exchanges along with anyone wanting to send, receive, or stake EverGreenCoin must upgrade. It will be a protocol upgrade and all other wallets will not meet the new protocol version and will be blocked. This is required because all other wallets do not have the code for the forthcoming hardfork. The entire network will only be version 1.5 wallets.

It's important to note that upgrading does not have to happen at a certain time. Exchanges will have to leave their wallet in maintenence until they do upgrade. Users will have to stop their existing wallet and not run it until they have upgraded. In the worst case, they will have to resync after they upgrade if they run their existing wallet past the time of the network upgrade (aka big bang).

The time this will occur is not set yet, but it will be next weekend. I will announce the exact time this will happen as soon as it is known. I want to be sure it is set at a time that is doable for as many service providers as possible. I do hope to have that time established as soon as possible.

If all this sounds confusing, do not worry. I will make it very simple in forthcoming announcements. All users need to know now is at some point in time next weekend, they will need to have stopped their EverGreenCoin software (all existing versions) and not run it again until they have upgraded to version 1.5. If they run any other version past that time, they will need to resync once they have upgraded.

I hope I have answered completely and everyone understands what will take place. If any further elaboration is needed, please do not hesitate to ask.

https://evergreencoin.org/forums/topic/evergreencoin-version-1-5/


For those that may shutter at the words of "required upgrade" or "hardfork", you need to realize a few things. First and more obvious, EverGreenCoin needs to do have a functionally reliable blockchain. While most of the readers here have the computer literacy to cope with network troubles, 'layman', for lack of a better word, do not and may not wish to tolerate learning how to. This is an audience I wish to be able to participate in EverGreenCoin and all our environmental efforts.

Second, we have more than enough time to prepare and make sure everyone is prepared. Knowledge of it coming is the only preparedness we need to raise. As previously mentioned, exchanges and service providers have already been alerted. If users are not prepared or do not learn of the forthcoming network upgrade, no harm. In the absolute worst case, they will have to resync after they do upgrade. All coins will be safe and of course myself and others will gladly assist. Please retweet so people can become aware, https://twitter.com/EverGreenCoin_/status/830546566104678400

Third, EverGreenCoin has been through this previously. There will be none of the issues that other coins have had when trying to do similar. That said, please do not think it will be carried out without diligence. As done previously, all steps of the process will be thoroughly mapped and prepared for.

Forth, any crypto project with any longevity and that is cared for and aims to succed must go through this at some time. If they haven't yet, they will in time. As all the relevant technology evolves, so must the network.

In closing, I would like to sincerely thank all those that have tolerated the network issues of unintentional forks. Also the many that have helped me to support others during them. Once we can finally put that behind us, EverGreenCoin can truly reach its potential.

Thanks for reading and I will provide more details as soon as they are concrete.

The network upgrade will not be taking place until next weekend. Reason being, we will not have all hands on deck this weekend and people have expressed they would like more time. This gives us a full week to spread the word and possibly work in other enhancements to the EverGreenCoin wallet.

Of course, we will narrow the time down better this coming week.