if youd read thru the thread you'd see that we very cuh know "why we're alive" we chose the ETH network because of the potentialities of the virtual machine. we have a focus on delivering the product to a specific sector of undustry, automated agricultural and renewable energy concerns. we are working to bring SOIL to merchants within that industry.. seed and gardening supplies, farming and feed.

ETH is content to simply populate the blockchain with whatever comes along, which will inevitably lead to malicious code and contracts that can exploit the ETH platform. that is the world we live in. neither EXP or SHF have really been communicative regards to their plans for the blockchain. ive restated many times what our plans our within this forum.

with a limited supply, hard capped, we will increase the valuation of SOIL as we go along, as long as we DELIVER on our stated goals. shrewd marketing will help with that. with inflation of valuation we can reduce costs for gas and fees for the blockchain, further serving our market. ive looked into the potential economics very deeply, and have roadmapped where we want to go and what needs doing to get there.

id hope you might look through this thread or visit our website at http://soilcoin.xyz to understand our stated business plan in more depth before you come to any snap judgements regarding our currency and our overall project.

our SOILfaucet is active... http://faucet.soilcoin.xyz
disperses .05 SOIL once every 24 hours...

we will keep it up, topping funds from community reserve as neccesary. not a massive balance, to prevent those who abuse wallets with ip switching from attacking it as they do with many BTC faucets and costing community.

enjoy.

we received a response from bittrex this evening:

"Thanks for the request. Our policy is to not comment on whether we will launch coins but we mainly add coins due to community demand. We gauge demand based off of tweets, hash power, length of bitcointalk thread, volume on other exchanges, etc. Follow us on twitter @bittrexexchange and tweet about how much you like this coin and Bittrex. We respond to creative and insightful posts to help market your favorite coins and Bittrex."

if you have the time and inclination, fire off a tweet to them, or RT the latest post on our @SOILcoin twitter account and help us get listed.
https://twitter.com/SOILcoin/status/655961273763561472

thanks for everyones support, and for making our launch successful!!

forgot to mention.. if you ARE able to recover the old keystore file from doing an undelete, and you have SOIL in your present wallet... back up the present keystore with something like "keystore_2" or somthing before recovering the old wallet address. with a little finesse you should be able to import one or the other into gsoil with use of your password for that wallet and straighten everything out. let me know if that works or not. if not, ill keep looking for a solution for you.

the last testnet bounties have been sent out as ive now received the wallet addresses to send them to...

0xaf889adda19f178514453cbf9ca63737d364930c   1805.0859375 SOIL SENT
0x66a470d4c46af122c2a8fe5326129da1e73e8e6a  1790.0           SOIL SENT*
*1210 SOIL remaining to be paid to this wallet. wallet holder has been contacted.

as soon as i have received the final dispersal payment towards this outstanding balance, ill post the community wallet ledger with all debits. the testnet bounty was sent to me in a separate wallet for that purpose once we had the transactions sorted out, and quite simply, there mustve been an error in my addition. (that wallet address is: 0x4aead4193b39360bc78086c866f8657fb68ea93b for anyone thats interested) presently, for testnet bounty purposes, we have sent out 49,041 SOIL to our testnet contributors who provided their testnet wallets to us in order to calculate the rewards) my thanks again for all those who contributed.

from what i have found reading up on how to restore wallet data from our "parent system" ethereum...

The default data directory locations are platform specific:

Mac: ~/Library/Soil
Linux: ~/.soil
Windows: %APPDATA%/Soil

using the

"help recover"

line within the gsoil command line interface, might present some other options as well...


ive researched a few undelete software options that might work. the following seem to have the better reviews as far as i have seen with cursory examination:

https://www.piriform.com/recuva
http://www.condusiv.com/products/undelete/
http://www.undelete360.com/

this page: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/applications/best-free-recovery-software-1141256 has a number of other undelete software options as well. hopefully one of those would help.

hi there. was reading thru your posts from today, about the issue with your wallet. im trying to understand the problem that occurred. as far as i understand things, you had to reinstall teh main net package, and didnt back up the keystore file in your, if you are using windows, users/USER/appdata/roaming/soil/keystore file folder?

there SHOULD have been a post detailing what to do beforehand in case of such emergencies, regarding how to safeguard your coins in that event, which is actually somewhat relevant to any cryptocoin you work with.... and thats something we'll be adding to the FAQ on the website to prevent others from suffering a similar fate in the future.

but i was wondering if youd managed to get anything straightened away? looking thru the explorer, the wallet address you provided me still has 5000SOIL listed for it, so im a little confused.... did you reinstall SOIL after id sent you your capped testnet mining bounty?

you mentioned your friend also lost their balance of SOIL as well, if you dont mind, have them PM me their wallet address so that i can investigate this further.

there WAS a keystore folder in the appropriate (referrenced above) location, although im not familiar with MAC or linux iterations of the wallet and keystore storage there, but i changed over from main net to test net several times in the week leading up to our launch, to test the official mining pool that we are still working on, to test the faucet we have set up and are just adjusting the dispersal time limits right now (dispersment will be set at 0.05 SOIL) and i never had issues finding or backing up my keystore wallet from one net to the other to keep them separated.

might there be a program you can download to assist with undelete where you might find the keystore files that seem to have been lost? since the deletion of the main net wallet only occured recently, its unlikely your system would have written over the data by now, so there might still be a way to retrieve them. the coins ARE there, in the wallet address you provided me.

i seem to remember reading something in the command line options for geth (that would also apply to gsoil) about importing wallets, and with the wallet address and your password there, you should be able to retrieve it in gsoil. ill look into it, just need a bit more information from you and your friend before i can investigate what we can do for you any further.

well, we have an ongoing business plan to work SOIL into merchants that correspond to our industry target. seed supply companies and gardening supply retailers and wholesalers, as well as agricultural supply stores. theres a vast market to tap into there, and build a brand name. we have focused our DApps development towards the automated agricultural and renewable energy monitoring and interconnectivity. there are small scale and large scale operations in both categories that will be approached.

we are just waiting on reviews of the currency now for a few exchanges, and i hope to hear from them soon. ive been clear since the beginning that much of the implementation of these projects will take time, it is a process and no finished product can be achieved in a few short months time, which we've been working on building the system to place these things on. in order to offer a product to this stratum of industry, we first needed to HAVE a product to offer them.

there are many stages towards implementation that will be required, and all the while we will be working at improving SOIL as a software platform, adding in features. we've only been live a little over 24 hours, so its a little early to try to pigeonhole this coin as "garbage". what youll find with us is a long term committment to a large scale project. theres no plans for ANY other cryptocurrencies to parallel SOIL, we will have enough work on our hands for the next few years to keep us very busy, its not a fly-by-night operation, this is to become our jobs and income going forwards.

that makes the difference between SOIL and other Ethereum-cased altcoins. we dont want to be JUST a currency, we want to build a BRAND that will be recognizable within our target market as a trusted and secure alternative to the cloud based servers many of these companies are using today, much of which maintains a subscription service that can cost anywhere up to a hundred dollars a month for small to medium scale operations. we will be working with our community very closely, and will maintain a daily presence here and on our social media presences, as well as carrying forward the responsibility towards full transparency regarding community funds, developers funds, etc.

the whole Ethereum platform innovation is still within its nascent stages, there remains a great deal of work they are doing moving towards their final product: "serenity" likewise SOIL has much growth to do, but the framework to build upon needed to be in place first. we are taking our time and doing things right. stick around awhile and see what you think, make an informed decision to invest or not, decide if we are as an honest cryptocurrency as we strive to be and if we are a development team that you can trust. at that point you can make an informed judgement whether or not to jump in now at the beginning of what we are doing or choose to not do so, and invest in other vanity altcoins that WILL never go anywhere.

but.. look towards what this platform can do, if applied properly and targeted, compared to what simple exchange fodder can do that only exists to be traded online, and has no intrinsic real world value..  we arent where we WANT to be, YET. it will take time and hard work, but we've got a roadmap set out that we will be following, with the full foreknowledge that it will be a year before we're running many of the applications we want to be, and five years before we might see large scale adoption.

ok, im out the door for search and rescue. ill answer everyone elses questions that crop up this evening,and write the few people who were involved with the launch early on that had problems and left in a huff. hopefully we can talk them into returning to the community. i hate to  have ANYONE upset with the way things went.  and HOPEFULLY by this evening we will have word back from poloniex or bleu regarding exchange inclusion.

ill post our equation-derived initial valuation when we get the exchange listings set. have a wonderful day, all and evryone

the majority of the outstanding bounties (including node hosting bounties that slipped by me last night) have been completed. im only waiting on one more person who is owed a bounty. i will be posting an accounting from the community reserve tonite, reflecting the testnet mining and node bounties as well as the hidden message genesis block reward thing.

0x0df95691d1a42e5714214f86540eade305538185                     3000 SENT
0x07a3944fceb1413b1b16c97a9f0dac42cf002ba7                       3000 SENT
0x54697e20e8e2bf6384e17b68795bf1b2b944c01e                      5000 SENT
0x54697e20e8e2bf6384e17b68795bf1b2b944c01e                      3000 SENT
0xe51c852892c964d2ef1a82f33e63256238ea62dd            669.0859375 SENT
0x36d68473a821f1fe7a45686927b0947bf2fa372d                       3000 SENT
0x9492b1b55209269fcd03678edd24e4919ba8a23f          134.55921735 SENT
0xdb499305d88ba88ab5836fcb962eec88a06972e7             63.6796875 SENT

im working diligently on that, and expect to hear something from poloniex this afternoon. ihave a search and rescue operation to attend this morning into the afternoon here in cape breton to search for a hunter that did not make it home last night, which, i hope all can understand, takes priority.

we did a LOT of thinking and discussions regarding this among the development team before we launched, and the overall reserve has been posted on teh website for weeks. we did take into consideration the community attitude towards reserves or premines, but in the end, felt it necessary to place a reserve on teh genesis block to fund further development.

800,000 was placed in the community reserve. you can check the balance via explorer.soilcoin.xyz. a reserve in the genesis block was necessary to pay out testnet mining bounties, to be able to fund the faucet (which will be up today, with a 0.05SOIL dispersement once every 24 hours), giveaways will be set on social media this week, and further bounties for feature development will be sent out as they are completed.

the community reserve wallet address is 0x3204a79b0245c5e1d5efe39179017a1c6c00b322

200,000 soil was split between the two developers for this project. we have made our wallet addresses public as well (http://soilcoin.xyz/index.php/community/) and you can check those as often as you like to verify that the development team has not touched their reserves. we DO deserve some reward for the amount of work we have put into this project, and within DAYS the coins held by the community at large will eclipse what the development team has, thru mining and testnet bounties already sent out.

my wallet address is 0xe46731382fbc47621a6c480d4b6118026bbbcb3a
soil's wallet address is 0xafc571db22ca80776def02150955026ff7329467

i will be posting a ledger for what dispersements have come out of the community reserve later today with an updated balance here on BCT and on the community page on teh website.

i present one last thing for your consideration, just a quote from another developer...

Evan Duffield:“If you look at the cryptocurrency space, 99% of the currencies fail because their mining is based on Bitcoin’s algorithm which was quite ‘fair’.

However, it doesn’t work anymore for newer coins because not enough distribution of the coin supply goes to the founders (the ones that actually do the work). So there’s not enough incentive to work on the project, because there’s a bunch of miners looking to make some money by dumping coins they got for free, so the founders get frustrated and dump their coins. This happens over and over again.

The entire crypto-community needs to realize everyone needs incentives to work and no one is working for free. No crypto-currency is immune to this fact, it’s just pure and simply economics in action."

https://dashdot.io/alpha/?page_id=118

we were hit with a massive mining farm (or three) almost immediately upon launch. it was halfway expected to happen, but nowhere near that much. 8 SOIL block reward is actually more generous than ETH (5) or SHF (3), two of the other ETH-based coins, and is the same as EXP. within an hour, a single wallet address (the biggest farm to hit us) was nearly 10,000 SOIL.

the hasimoto dagger algorithm is ASIC-resistant, unfortunately it isnt ASIC-PROOF. i did research in the weeks approaching launch, if we could find a single IP governor to cap hashrates coming in, but sadly, theres no such thing invented yet.

"fair launch" isnt about how fast the network hashes, its about ensuring everyone has plenty of foreknowledge regarding WHEN the launch is, with ample communication regarding when the main net packages would be released, which to prevent malicious mining before our scheduled launch, were naturally released approximately 15 minutes before actual launch. there was no way to prevent how we were mined by third parties at the moment of launch

the system is much ore stable now, block times are much closer to their targeted time, and the variant gravity well difficulty algorithm is operating as it should. the difficulty algorithm cant adjust by several factors immediately, but did so incrementally as the system began to gain its traction.

presently we've decided on 30 million total supply, with block reward halving every 1.8 million blocks (the first at approximately 15 million SOIL minted) which should take nearly 2 years to reach as the daily distribution curve settles into place. we will be moving towards democratic voting regarding these things once we reach 2 million SOIL minted (to ensure fair distribution of SOIL overall.. there will be a 1 SOIL/1 VOTE apparatus. the community will have a say regarding this, but if we retain the present scheduling, it will be approximately 12 years before we reach total supply mintage. it is a fair bet that well before that time, the Proof of Stake algorithm adjustment for the Ethereum based coins will be solved and we can move towards that within a few years. i dont expect us to move towards PoS before the first block reward halving, but that is something that the community will have a definite say towards.

my sincerest apologies. i will get that fixed for you this afternoon. as i mentioned in my last post, ive been called out for a search and rescue operation here in cape breton, which is something that does take priority, when someones life could be on the line. some hunter who didnt come home last night.. im just waiting for my ride to show to get me to the search site, and dont want to rush thru dispersements and make any mistakes. ive made a note for when i get back to get your node bounty out immediately. sorry about that. it was pretty late when i was sending out the bounties.

ill fix that for you today. yesterday was so crazy that your node bounty slipped thru the cracks...

i have to head out for a search and rescue operation thats been called here in cape breton, so ill be out for a couplefew hours. just waiting for my ride to the search site. the same applies to the other who have sent me their wallets over last night, ill get you your bounties sent out AS SOON as i get back.

poloniex DID finally write back last night, theyd asked for some updates on information yesterday which i supplied them with, and SOIL is under review. they mentioned theyd let me know this afternoon, so hopefully by the time i get back. if anyone wants to help that process, send poloniex a letter supporting the request to have SOIL listed. coinotron also wrote back, theyve stated as soon as we're listed on some of the main exchanges, theyll list us there as well.

thank you all for your patience regarding the exchanges. as i said before, unfortunately i cant control when and how the exchanges respond, but i have been writing them constantly. i think the launch went pretty good, there were hiccups, naturally, but from what ive noticed, every coin suffers those. we got hit by some big mining farms almost immediately and that messed up block times pretty hard, but the system seems to be running closer to optimum this morning.

testnet mining and node hosting bounties have been sent out. there are a few contributors that didnt provide new wallets, but they have been sent private messages... ill be updating the community reserve ledger tomorrow (my brain is just too tired to make sure i do a perfect accounting job on it) and will work REALLY HARD tomorrow on getting replies from those exchanges so that you all have somewhere to spend those hard earned SOIL. thank you all for helping get us off the ground, even though the first hur and change after launch was a little insane with the megaminers going nuts on our blockchain.

the following testnet (various) and node (3000) bounties have been paid out to the following wallets:

0x0df95691d1a42e5714214f86540eade305538185                         33.02343750 SENT
0x895d4bfd8f626085db2edeca7391e2571378968d                         5000 SENT
0x07a3944fceb1413b1b16c97a9f0dac42cf002ba7                           61.5 SENT
0x892929fbf6e0beac3b3c66ae86234426571d925b                         538.546875 SENT
0xe09f13db88d976d8aeb23a8750df72cc3670a00b                         3064.101405 SENT
0xdf594b9343fd220f7c428a390301e725629e27e8                         2030.577495 SENT        3000 SENT
0x8bbd533a00dc0b09c509e93987557fafaa562b0f                         279.1640625 SENT
0x6b735d148fd9248b40e2d42b6c99ac5e4991fc83                         323.6015625 SENT
0x173eda856d3056a3be15caa2065295883ce61c04                        3000 SENT
0x97854e0e6e66a703e301f4da457a28c3ca15c9ee                        1145.90625 SENT
0x29d983e684ceeefed2657c558634f38d95906221                         549.1410975 SENT
0x0fcf5013caa0180f79b9bdb88a83d579324be58b                         107.4140625 SENT
0x4ea0be2fc06c8f0db3ee6eaf0a193f191461b55b                          5000 SENT
0x1c4036c6190db2ec8aa5af7a12ed95276f741773                         443.5 SENT         3000SENT
0x0cb1ed18135ac6590885aff190748b252bdd0129                         2.25 SENT

as soon as i have the bounty COINS in the wallet i set up for that, ill disperse them. soil is testing out my address, make sure it goes thru without a hitch. im taking half an hour off to watch a bit of hockey (my weekly ounce of disappointment.. im a maple leafs fan) but ill ge tot those bounties as soon as ive got the funds in my bounty wallet... itll be within an hour id say

id written bittrex a few weeks ago but never received a reply. ive resubmitted our up to date information to them. if anyone wants to help by writing the exchanges as members of the community to let them know you want them to list us ASAP!

hallelujah!!!!