Yes, my test at Bittrex were successful as well. Thank you for reporting your success.

http://coin-faucet.com/EGC/ is the official faucet.

EGC is traded on yobit but they are in a fork and have not yet listened to our pleas to upgrade to version 1.3, resync, and get on the correct blockchain. For that reason trading on yobit is not advised until they do but if you must, https://www.yobit.net/en/trade/EGC/BTC and I see sell orders for 574 sat there and buy orders for just over 200 sat. Cryptopia is not on the correct blockchain yet either.

Bittrex and C-cex have upgraded and are on the correct blockchain. I advise you to do your trading at one of these two exchanges. Please see the OP for links to these two exchanges.

Thank you for your interest in EverGreenCoin.

As of tomorrow (today technically in my timezone) Wednesday June 22nd, the official faucet will be resuming its normal payout schedule of once per day at midnight Eastern Standard Time. There will not be two rounds per day as this was a temporary measure to help community members verify they were on the correct blockchain and not an incorrect fork.

Thank you for supporting EverGreenCoin.

Bittrex has been confirmed to be on the correct blockchain. Their daemon appeared to be stuck and was stopped earlier. All is in order now.

Sorry for the inconvenience and alarm this may have caused the community.

Sir, would you please read your PM.

ProcessSyncCheckpoint: sync-checkpoint at 0000000031fb64a44fed52c0bb6809b7df475ca812e6c0a796a6be93bf8ed7c6

That would be a checkpoint server working, if you do not understand your log files.

C-Cex is confirmed still fine. There is no evidence of new forks on the network.

Bittrex has been asked to check if their daemon is stuck. No one lied to anyone.

Cryptopia has not been confirmed to be on the correct chain in weeks. I do not know if they have upgraded but doubt they have. Most likely they would need to resync when they do upgrade.

PoW length: 525,960 blocks ( ~6 months. ~6 1/2  months after hardfork at block 495000)

We have about another week and a half remaining now that we have a 3 minute block target times as opposed to the original 1 minute target.

EDIT: Because of the unknown variable of PoS blocks, predicting this cannot be done with precision. If all things remain consistent as of the last 24 hours, 9.028 days remain if my calculations are correct.

Yes. Real world use, beyond just another trading token, remains a goal. With that will come familiarity with the coin as like minded merchants, both in support of a fellow green project and the numberous benefits accepting crypto gives them, will embrace the coin as a currency and not another fly by night token.

A very welcome side effect, indeed. Their ignorant banter is free publicity and a chuckle to read.

Yep, you got it. I neglected many personal agricultural obligations over the past couple weeks and had some hands to help me catch up today. Skype-ing you now.

Thanks for finding the time to give the community an update Gabi and of course, congratulations to you and Ines!

I can only imagine the joy you 2 3 must be having!

Thanks joinfree. It was a pleasure to assist you and others.

With a little cooperation from both effected users and exchanges, we have been able to recover all coins for both exchange wallets and users wallets of those that wish to work with us in doing so. Cooperation being the operative word. The foundation has needed to cover none of these transactions thus far, but would as a last resort.

I am daily urging yobit and cryptopia to do the same and have told them the foundation can and would reconcile users' accounts should their internal audits fail. This cannot happen until they upgrade, get on the correct blockchain, and perform internal audits. Any help urging these exchages to do so is greatly appriciated.

Thanks Joe!

And that answers that.

I had PMd you back on May 31st on this very topic, Port. Perhaps you overlooked it, but I will resend it to you now.

Thanks!

Yes, very interesting indeed, the beauty of which is it grows other ideas. We had previously been in contact with coinpayments.net and had a campaign to convince them to consider adding EverGreenCoin. That effort was unfruitful. I mentioned the reasons I suspect it was so in this post. We can and will in the near future try again. As I previously mentioned, it might be wise to let the markets recover before we do so so that marketcap gives them more reason to consider. Of course we can add gocoin to the list.

I personally like the idea of dropshipping and think it is a promising idea. When I mentioned the idea to a colleague, they were of the opinion it was not wise and only offered, "it has failed for others." as an explanation and had to end the conversation. Of course that is not a strong enough argument to not pursue the idea. I will see if they are willing to elaborate on their discontent with the idea and, if so, present that point of view to the community on their behalf if they are unwilling to. But again, I like the idea but of course I am open to arguments that might prove it a path not to continue on. I have not yet heard such arguments.

Regardless of the dropshipping debate, the next step remains a payment processing gateway. I do know crypto-friendly merchants that would be happy to accept EGC once we reach this milestone. Some of them wanting to feature EGC and perhaps offer discounts for its use. Which brings up another point and idea I would like to bounce of the community members that like this idea so far: Why use EGC for a purchase as oppose to just using BTC? Know, we know the reasons that it helps EGC, creating demand. But, why would a consumer that already sees the benefit of using crypto and does want to use crypto for the purchase add the seemingly unnecessary step of converting the BTC into EGC for the purchase? This is the sticking point that I think all 'alt' coins face. So, we need an incentive. Now, when many of the environmentally supportive ideas (solar miners, solar mining farm, ecosia.org or similar, ect.) are implemented and using EGC has tangible evidence as being a currency that its use alone helps the environment, I do feel many people would then see that once unnecessary conversion step (BTC or other to EGC) as a worthwhile step. Until then, we need more I think, an incentive. Perhaps the EGC Foundation can step in to make an incentive by ways of covering a small discount or a rebate. Often times a discount of only 2% offsets shipping, it is implementing the discount that posses a problem. Now, some like-minded merchants will offer discounts and are small/agile enough, yet serve a global consumer base, to do so on a per transaction basis. The foundation matching or even covering the discount would be attractive to consumers and therefor merchants alike. To the best of my knowledge, implementing a discount at the payment processing gateway is not an option. Unless we were able to make some arrangement with said payment processing gateway, this might not be a feasible option thus making the discount incentive idea not realistic for many merchants and merchants that simply can not handle discounts on a per transaction basis for whatever reason. For this reason the rebate idea becomes more possible and promising. The foundation could rebate purchases made with EGC, therefore making an incentive for consumers. Of course, both the discount and rebate could not be a large because the funding is limited to do so but, wise consumers know it does not take much to offset shipping or sales tax (VAT).

Just an idea I have been thinking on and wanted to, like I said, share / discuss  with the community members that are being helpful with these and other ideas. Thanks to those of you that are!  

The hardfork for block target times has passed. EGC now has 3 minute block target times. This will slow down the network and further mitigate forks from forming.

In all situations where someone has mentioned lost coins, I have asked them to PM me so I could investigate the claim in the order it was received.