Today we are very happy to announce that the Ether-1 Mobile Wallet has made it onto Apple's AppStore & can be downloaded from: https://apps.apple.com/za/app/nextshore-ether-1-wallet/id1521802485. This is an amazing achievement as very few coins ever make it onto AppStore.

Dev Update #7 is up for your reading pleasure. Check out what we're busy with on: https://medium.com/@Ether1Official/kepler-dev-update-7-147d4704f323?sk=fbd2f267f4deaab2e2395c1c4b1cb38e

Pool.Sexy is shutting down!

We are sad to announce that Pool.Sexy mining pool is shutting down operations for the time being while the uncertainty with the world lingers. Our friend Mitch - Wariner said that perhaps soon the pool will be back with a new name -- miners.science!

Until the new pool comes up, we advise all Ether-1 $ETHO miners to find a different pool. This is very important Pool.Sexy will be shutting down in less than a week.

ethoPAY WooCommerce plugin for WordPress has been released by the etho.black dev team
https://medium.com/@Ether1Official/ethopay-woocommerce-plugin-release-1a75c765b9d6

We have just finished vetting a new Ether-1/Xerom node hosting solution called Pecunia Platform. With the new platform you can host a Gateway Node for only $1.99/month, fully payable in a variety of cryptos!

Read more here: https://medium.com/@Ether1Official/ether-1-pecunia-platform-listing-4b2d1b53138a

The Ether-1 Council is very happy to bring some major news to the Ether-1 community tomorrow at 9PM GMT / 4PM EST / 1PM PST / 11PM EET! Tune into https://cryptocore.airtime.pro/ tomorrow to witness Ether-1 history being made.

ether-1 #DecentralizeEverything mining contest!


Rules:

(1) Mine to any ether-1 pool other than pool.sexy for 15 out of the next 30 days and have your address entered for a CHANCE TO WIN 1 x 5000 ETHO & 3 x 1000 ETHO PRIZES!

(2) Send your miner address from any eligible pool to Primate of $ETHO (https://discord.gg/MFn9Tmz) and all miners who meet the 15 day criteria will be entered into a random drawing for the prizes.

(3) The contest ends exactly 30 days from today's date.



This contest is sponsored by http://ethopool.ether1.cloud/

ethoFS Reward Distribution Starts after Block 4 Million!

The commencement of the ethoFS hosting fee distribution process will distribute all ethoFS hosting proceeds directly to Gateway Node (GN), Masternode (MN) and Service Node (SN) owners' wallets! The reward split will be the same as the block reward split with SNs getting 1x, MNs getting 4x and GNs getting 8x. There will be no service charge or dev fee taken out, 100% of all rewards will go directly to node operators' wallets.

More information will be provided as we get closer to block 4 million. The ether-1 team is working on making this block number very special for the node operators who are the lifeblood of ethoFS.

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Also, the http://ether1.cloud team is happy to announce the creation of a ETHO mining pool at http://ethopool.ether1.cloud.

New Year's 2020 Twitter ether-1 #DecentralizeEverything Provisional Council Competition!

First Prize: 10,000 ETHO
Second Prize 4,000 ETHO
Third Prize: 1,000 ETHO

Participation rules:
Tweet at an "alt coin friendly" crypto influencer on why they should pay attention to ether-1! Focus on #DecentralizeEverything and on the new council being elected. The tweet with the most retweets and likes will win first place! 1 retweet = 3 points; 1 like = 1 point.
Competition ends on Wednesday January 8th at 10PM EST. Make sure to report your most successful tweet to @Primate of $ETHO for consideration. In the event of a tie, Primate will match the winnings of the 2nd person!

We are now only about 5 days from the Kronos fork block. We need all node owners to make sure they are updated to the latest version by block 3.8 million in order to continue receiving rewards uninterrupted. If you have any difficulties updating your nodes you can contact an ether-1 team member in for help.
Kronos Update Information:
https://medium.com/@Ether1Official/update-to-kronos-urgent-abcb95678e87

The Kronos version of The Ether-1 Desktop Wallet has been released over at https://github.com/Ether1Project/Ether1DesktopWallet/releases

Please update your wallets before Christmas day in order to keep everything running smoothly.

If you encounter any issues with the wallet synchronization after updating, clear your wallet's blockchain data and synchronize again as shown here: https://docs.ether1.org/wallets/using-desktop-wallets/deleting-desktop-chain-data

ALL NODE OWNERS who have had their Ether-1 nodes hosted on any of the following services should move them because all the VPS services are no longer in business.

The 20 companies are: ArkaHosting, Bigfoot Servers, DCNHost, HostBRZ, HostedSimply, Hosting73, KudoHosting, LQHosting, MegaZoneHosting, n3Servers, ServerStrong, SnowVPS, SparkVPS, StrongHosting, SuperbVPS, SupremeVPS, TCNHosting, UMaxHosting, WelcomeHosting, X4Servers

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/12/08/1549222/20-low-end-vps-providers-suddenly-shutting-down-in-a-deadpooling-scam

Check out the latest review of Ether-1 by the Crypto Associate

https://thecryptoassociate.com/what-is-ether-1-etho-101/

Vote now for when you think the Provisional Council should be elected.  If you plan on running for council, do it now!
https://medium.com/@Ether1Official/ether-1-provisional-council-deadline-b2c2ae976d33?sk=d740591ad488906204f887726c85d2f9

Read more about the Ether-1 Governance Bootstrap here: https://medium.com/@Ether1Official/ether-1-governance-bootstrap-ee2689af8c63

First Governance Council!

We've published out very first ECP (Ether-1 Community Proposal) which will kick start Decentralized Governance by creating a Provisional Leadership Council which will consist of 7 community members/contributors/team members.
The provisional leadership council will work along side the existing Ether-1 team to decide on some immediate project needs, direction and to test and then finalize the rules/protocols which are needed to implement a fully functional decentralized governance system. The provisional council will be elected by the Ether-1 community.

If you'd like to run for a seat on the provisional council you can do so by nominating yourself and publishing your ideas/directions for the project to head in on the ECP Thread and in discord. You can read the entire ECP here: https://github.com/Ether1Project/ECPs/issues/1 ECP-1 is extremely important and we encourage everyone to get involved with the provisional leadership council discussion on Github and propose any changes you'd like to see.

What is an ECP? An ECP is an Ether-1 Community Proposal, these are put forward for the advancement of the Ether-1 Ecosystem and direction the project follows. We look forward to seeing the provisional council form and working with the provisional council Members.

Come and join us in Discord to further discuss your use case.  We are very happy to accommodate all possible uses cases in order to bolster our network.

Some updates for Ether-1 followers:

1.) Physical coin, preorder at https://physicalcryptocoins.com/product/ether-1/. Get the lower pre-order price while it lasts!
2.) You can now monitor the status of the Ether-1 infrastructure at https://uptime.ether1.org
3.) We're testing our new blockchain explorer available at https://blocks.ether1.org. Please help us kick the tires to make sure it's nice and stable for all.

1250 ETHO/month for 30000 coin node.

We currently don't support Windows nodes due to instability and security problems when exposing it to the internet.
You will definitely need a fairly static IP address to run a node because all the checks rely on the IP address not changing.  You can certainly run on a changing IP address but you will need to redo the registration every time your IP address changes. I would not advise running the 30000 node on a consumer connection because of the high bandwidth utilization.