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This will be the game plan for the "big bang" as of now, executed at a time yet to be determined:
1. Windows and Mac OS X EGC v1.3 wallet links will be made public and the source code repository made public, allowing for downloads to begin.
2. All seednodes wallets, the block explorer, the faucet, and miscellaneous supporting wallets will be simultaneously stopped.
3. Snap shots of the blocchain will be made for historical purposes at the seednodes.
4. All supporting EGC v1.3 wallets (seednodes, block explorer, faucet, ect.) will be brought on-line.
5. Exchanges will be notified the version 1.3 wallet is available and urged to upgrade. All exchanges have been notified this event is forthcoming. DO NOT move any EGC to or from an exchange until it has been verified to be on the new protocol and on the correct blockchain.
I have the download links ready to post. I have the 2 EGC network seednodes, block explorer, faucet, and supporting version 1.3 wallets compiled and ready for the time as of now. Crysx has been provided access to the private repository to download the v1.3 source code and build on the 5 granite network seednodes when he returns to his desk. None of these seednodes will be brought on-line with v1.3 until step number 4 in the above list.
The time this will occur at is still not determined. It will be conforming to crysx's schedule as his schedule is less flexible than mine. If you can not upgrade to EGC version 1.3 at this yet to be determined time, there is no cause for alarm. You only need to do it as soon as you can. DO NOT try to send or receive after this to be announced time with ANY wallet other than the soon to be released version 1.3 wallet.
As you may know by now, every effort was made to avoid this and I apologize for the time these matters have consumed of yours. Every possible effort is being made so this transition happens as seamlessly as possible and has minimal, if any, negative effects on the community. If you are uncertain of this impact on you, all you need to know is you must upgrade once v1.3 is made available before you try to send and receive EGC and do not send or receive EGC from or to an exchange until you see an announcement that the exchange has been verified.
Thank you all for your understanding of the necessity of these measures. The time of these events will be announced with as much forewarning as possible. I hope everyone is comfortable with the order of events I have laid out here. If you have any concerns or comments, please do not hesitate to ask or state them.
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Thanks for the update. Looking forward to it.
Just had one of my 1.2.1 wallets fork again last night.
Will 1.3 wallets be available compiled when the new wallet launches?
I do have the new v1.3 wallets in hand for both Mac and Windows already, yes. |
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Ok EGC community, please listen up. This is important.
To do this hard fork there exists two options. Neither are exactly pretty.
Option A) Big bang. Basically we do something like a re-launch but with the EXISTING blockchain and a NEW PROTOCOL version.
Option B) Slow bang. The hard fork occurs on the EXISTING blockchain with NO PROTOCOL change.
After much collaboration and consideration with Mammix, Option A does make more sense for EverGreenCoin and I will explain why.
With option B, old wallets could not be locked out. Older wallets would continue down there own and after the fork incorrect path and could potentially peer with the new (v1.2.1 or the forthcoming v1.3) wallets and lead them down an incorrect fork. This would lead to a repeat of the situation we have seen occur recently and this solves no problems.
With Option A, old wallets (including the v1.2.1) would be blocked by ways of not having the sufficient protocol version that EGC v1.3 will introduce. Older wallets would continue to connect with each other and proceed down the incorrect fork but they would be blocked from the seednodes after the big bang occurs. Exchanges would be brought onto the new version as fast as possible.
What I propose is we do option A and do so in the very near future of the next 24 to 48 hours. I need to collaborate with crysx to get an agreed upon time to switch the seednodes on the granite network. I have made all the changes to the source code and made the repo private for the time being.
What will happen is at the agreed upon time, much like a launch, source code and wallets (v1.3) will be made public. Seednodes will be switched over at that time and the new protocol version network will begin to form. Everyone will need to upgrade, it will be mandatory. If you do not upgrade, you will be fine so long as you do not send or receive with the old versions.
The hard fork for 3 minute block target times is programmed to occur at block 495000, well after the big bang has had time to occur. I am sorry that it must happen this way, but it must to ensure the network functions as intended and reliably in the future, especially when PoW ends. Yes, this will move the ending of PoW out in relation to time but PoW will still end at block 525960.
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wallet still maintance on bittrex  Yes, at our request it is that way. We are getting ready to hard fork EverGreenCoin. I am drafting a post right now explaining what needs to happen. Give me a couple minutes to finish that. |
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I took some screenshots walking through verifying an EverGreenCoin wallet is on the correct blockchain and made a small instruction set. It should take you less than 15 minutes to conduct this test and I hope these instructions are found useful. I kindly ask you, please do find the time to do so if you haven't recently verified your blockchain by a similar method as outlined here or by entering the faucet.
These screenshots are taken from a Linux machine. You may see slight variations in your OS of choice, but the logic remains the same. First, take a look at your EverGreenCoin wallet. To conduct this test, we need both the "Statistics" button/tab and the "Block Explorer" button/tab within your EverGreenCoin wallet. You may not see these tabs initially. To gain access to these two tabs we need, "Statistics" and "Block Explorer", we have a few options. We can drag and expand the window so it is wide enough, we can click the small green sliver at the extreme right of the toolbar, or we can just simply maximize the entire window. | | 
"Statistics" and "Block Explorer"
not visible. | | 
Toolbar expanded,
revealing the "Statistics" and "Block Explorer". | | 
Window widened or maximized,
revealing the "Statistics" and "Block Explorer". |
Now that we have access to the buttons/tabs we need, click on the "Statistics" button/tab so we can observe where this copy of the blockchain is at. This is measured in "Block Height".  We can see that this wallet is at Block Height 465738 at the time I took this screenshot and I will use that number for this example. Take note of that number you see besides the "Block Height" label. The number you see will be different, hopefully slightly higher. By what degree higher will be determined by what time you conduct this test in relation to what time I made the screenshot.  Now we take that noted number, the Block Height this wallet is at, over to the "Block Explorer" tab. Input the Block Height number into the box in the upper left. In this example I input the 465738 number I noted from the Statistics tab. After you have input the number you have noted, your block height, you have noted, click the "Jump to Block" button. Your wallet will output some information about the block. What we are interested in is the "Block Hash". Leave your EverGreenCoin wallet open and as it is one the block explorer. Open a web browser of your choice and navigate to http://transactions.evergreencoin.org ( http://158.69.205.238:3001/). This is the official EverGreenCoin Block Explorer. We are going to use this Block Explorer to compare the Block Hash your wallet has for that specific block number you noted. I will continue using the 465738 number for my example but, you want to use the number you noted from the Statistics tab.  Input the number you noted from the Statistics tab in the search text field. Then press the search button and wait for the results.  When the results are returned, look at the block hash the online block explorer returns. This is labeled "EGC block:" and will be directly below the search text field. What we need to do is compare this long string of characters, the block hash, to that of which your wallet has and verify they are the same. You do not need to painstakingly compare the entire string. Only comparing the first 5 or 6 characters and the last 5 or 6 characters will suffice. If the block hash the block explorer tells us is the same as the block hash your wallet tells us, congratulations you have just verified your EverGreenCoin wallet is on the correct blockchain. If the block hash does not match, take a moment to verify you did in fact compare the same block number (aka "Block Height"). In the unfortunate even you find you do have a different block hash for the same block number than what the online block explorer has returned, you are in a fork. Please close your EverGreenCoin wallet and do not open it until you are ready to resync to the correct chain. Leaving your wallet open when we have determined it is in a fork only helps the incorrect fork gain strength, so please promptly close it. Following the directions in this post will get you back on the correct blockchain. If you are not on version 1.2.1, please do so before you resync. Version 1.2.1 has measures in it that will help mitigate you from getting in a fork again and is in yours and the network's best interest. The entire EGC network thanks you for taking the time to do so.
In addition to the above test, you may wish to enter the official faucet. This is an easy and rewarding way to verify you are on the correct blockchain. I process payouts at both 12 AM and 12 PM eastern standard time. If you receive your payout, you are on the correct blockchain. Do not be alarmed if this does not happen precisely at 12 AM or 12 PM EST. Please allow me a small window as I do inspect the entries in the database before initiating the script that sends payments. Sometimes fictitious entries are made and I do not want to waste my own or the foundation's coins on people that wish to only exploit the faucet. I will increase the payout amount now also as a show of thanks for verifying you are on the correct blockchain but please, only enter once per round. The fictitious entries only slow down the payments and I will not pay any entry I can link to any fictitious entries. Fortunately this has not currently been as large of an issue as it has in the past. Thank you all for taking the time, by ways of verifying block hashes I outlined here and/or by simply entering the faucet, to verify you are on the correct blockchain and not supporting a fork. The weaker forks become, the less likely they are to pull other people into it. Quoting this because I am getting several PMs asking how to verify a copy of the blockchain is correct. There may be others still wondering. Following these quoted instructions to verify your copy of the blockchain. I am continuing to work on the new code. Presently experimenting with 3 minute block target times. Please be patient as this will require much testing that takes a lot of time, even when hot-wiring things to happen faster. My aim is to have this thoroughly tested and wallets compiled and release this weekend, hopefully Friday. If I can stick to this timeline the hard fork will be programmed to occur shortly after, perhaps Sunday. All of this is tentative at this time and could change, but I did not want to leave you wondering on what the plan is. The network looks solid as of now. Hopefully it stays that way and no forks occur before the new wallets are released. If you have a v1.2.1 EGC wallet that is on the correct chain, I ask you leave it run as often as you can so that version 1.2.1 wallets continue to have a strong majority. Thank you in advance for doing so. In the mean time, you may wish to take advantage of the low difficulty and try solo mining. If you pool mined EGC, you should have no difficulty solo mining and I explained how to in this post. Ccex, Bittrex, and Staisybit all have been informed and are on standby for the new wallet. Of course, I will contact Cryptopia and yobit also. Thanks for all the continued patience and understanding EGC community. |
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I am sure we all could use some good news this afternoon... EverGreenCoin will be added to Staisybit in the near future. If you don't know, Staisybit is a cloud staking service website. Very similar to the now defunct coinwallet.io that had EverGreenCoin as one of its many coins, you can access the site, and therefor your wallet, with any web-enabled device. Mobile users will be able to send and receive EverGreenCoin much like they would with a mobile wallet built specifically for their device (android, iOS, ect.) and still earn interest from Proof of Stake on holdings. This service website can also be used by desktop/laptop users that wish to stake constantly but not leave their computer running constantly. Please see Staisybit for more details of their services which soon will be available for the EverGreenCoin community. |
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Ok good iam on right way it started to mine, thanks.
I dont see any shares accepted, but my cards show right hash rate, and i can see blocks rolling
When solo mining you will not see shares accepted. When you do see something accepted, it will be a block. You are very welcome and happy solo'ing! Good luck! |
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ccminer.exe --algo=x15 -o stratum+tcp://127.0.0.1:5758
With this command line in say
Stratum_subscribe timed out
please retry in 30 seconds
I see two things wrong. First, you do not use stratum. Use http because you do not have a stratum server and thus use getwork. Also, specify the user and password with the -O argument (capitol O as in Ohio). Try this: ccminer.exe --algo=x15 -o http://127.0.0.1:5758 -O USERNAME:PASSWORD |
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Afaik I'm on the right chain and I see a net hash rate of around 60.000 MH/s, which I think is not bad at all  I've only got 6 connections atm and that worries me most. I'm at block 480883 atm btw. That sounds right. You will get more connections and probably have by the time you read this. Just to be sure, ./evergreencoind getblockhash 480883 0f21b6d217f6fc6102e8a7edd67082b2d16e52e9dd09093bcf7024063bf23b06 But I am sure you have already verified that via the block explorer.  |
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It does appear some forks have happened on the network the past few hours. Please verify your blockchain via the block explorer. Do not move your EverGreenCoin to or from an exchange until we can verify they are on the correct blockchain. Measures will be made to lock out old wallets. A hardfork will occur to increase block times to slow down the network's PoS blocks. There will be a mandatory upgrade to implement this. I had hoped to avoid these steps but it is evident it is a necessity. Sorry for the inconvenience. EDIT: If you do not know how to verify your copy of the blockchain, please follow these instructions to do so. Quoting just to reiterate this important information on the new page of this thread. More information will be made available as soon as possible. |
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Are there any updates on the Stratos project? Haven't heard from it in a while
Gabi recently had a child and, as we can imagine, is extremely busy with his new bundle of joy. I will get an update from him in the near future. |
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What to do, to solo mine EGC ?
Can please i get instruction ?
To solo mine you need to first edit your evergreencoin.conf file. Add these lines to your evergreencoin.conf in the data directory (C:\Users\TeddyBeer\AppData\Roaming\EverGreenCoin\evergreencoin.conf). If the file does not exist you must make a new file and name it evergreencoin.conf in that mentioned directory. rpcuser=ThisIsTheUsernameYourMinerSoftwareWillUse
rpcpassword=ThisIsThePasswordYourMinerSoftwareWillUse
rpcallowip=192.168.0.45
server=1
daemon=1
listen=1
The rpcallowip value (192.168.0.45 in the example) is the IP address your mining software will be connecting to mine from. If it is the same machine, just use its IP address though you could use localhost or 127.0.0.1 as well. Then start your wallet so it will read the new configuration. Then point your miner to the IP address of the host running the wallet (which might be the same machine) on port 5758 using the username and password you specified in the evergreencoin.conf file. I hope this information is helpful. |
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It does appear some forks have happened on the network the past few hours. Please verify your blockchain via the block explorer. Do not move your EverGreenCoin to or from an exchange until we can verify they are on the correct blockchain. Measures will be made to lock out old wallets. A hardfork will occur to increase block times to slow down the network's PoS blocks. There will be a mandatory upgrade to implement this. I had hoped to avoid these steps but it is evident it is a necessity. Sorry for the inconvenience. EDIT: If you do not know how to verify your copy of the blockchain, please follow these instructions to do so. |
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The network appears to be fine. My personal v1.2.1 has 19 connections. The seednodes have 21 to 39 connections. The block explorer is fine, is resolving, and has 14 connections. I suspect your connectivity may be the issue. |
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Big fan of EGC!! I think this is a great coin!!! Thanks Dev!! Thank you for the support! |
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I have successfully deposited and withdrew EverGreenCoin from Bittrex. They are back on the correct blockchain.
I am now having issues resyncing wallet 1.2.1. for Windows (running W 8.1 64Bit) Stuck on block 457283. Do I need to completely download the blockchain again on version 1.2.1? Any advice or recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Portdavenport Hi Portdavenport, If you are stuck that far behind (current block height is 464768), I would say you have peered with wallets that are in an incorrect fork still. To correct from this, yes please do a complete resync. There is a bootstrap at block height 460949 (6th Jun 2016 12:41:29) that will expedite resyncing for you. But we want to be sure you do not peer with these same peers again. Follow these steps: 1, Close your EverGreenCoin wallet. 2, Navigate to %appdata%/EverGreenCoin within Windows Explorer. (otherwise stated, C:\Users\<Windows User>\AppData\Roaming\EverGreenCoin) 3, Delete everything in that folder except your wallet.dat file. 4, Download the bootstrap compressed archive. 5, Extract the bootstrap.dat from within the downloaded bootstrap.zip into that same folder you just deleted everything except your wallet.dat file. 6, Launch your EverGreenCoin v1.2.1 wallet. Bootstrapping the blockchain will take about 2 hours, depending on your system. The splash screen will show this entire time. It has not frozen, do not ctrl-alt-del kill it. Allow it to run its course. If you are curious to see the how far it has progressed, you will notice a file called blk0001.dat in that data directory we have been working in. That file will be increasing in size steadily. When it reaches the same size as the bootstrap.dat file, bootstrapping is complete. Your EverGreenCoin wallet will appear now and get new peers from the seednodes and download the remaining 2 days of the blockchain. I hope that helps Portdavenport. If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to ask or state them. Thank You EverGreenCoin for the support. I implemented the instructions above and everything appears to be working again on Windows wallet 1.2.1. I've also successfully sent EGC between my wallet and Bittrex Exchange ( www.bittrex.com) and back again. www.evergreencoin.orgGlad to hear it and glad to be of assistance! |
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Hey Evergreencoin community!
I almost never post, but i just want to compliment the incredible proffesional attitude of the dev.
I have seen so many coins go down by poorly handling problems, it's very refreshing to see a community live through it!
I've been a long time holder from the start and i'm positive this coin with community has great potential.
The buying pressure on Bittrex is looking great, also a nice buy wall around 290 sat. I think it's a great time to buy! I accumulated to 250k and i will hold for sure at these prices.
Hopefully we get back to a more realistic price range soon.
Keep up the good work dev!
Thank you for the kind words, investing in, and holding EverGreenCoin! |
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Hey Evergreencoin community!
I almost never post, but i just want to compliment the incredible proffesional attitude of the dev.
I have seen so many coins go down by poorly handling problems, it's very refreshing to see a community live through it!
I've been a long time holder from the start and i'm positive this coin with community has great potential.
The buying pressure on Bittrex is looking great, also a nice buy wall around 290 sat. I think it's a great time to buy! I accumulated to 250k and i will hold for sure at these prices.
Hopefully we get back to a more realistic price range soon.
Keep up the good work dev!
nice when the dev gives himself compliments due new accounts ... shitty scamcoin No, I have no need for any sock puppet accounts. Anyone following this project knows I would not and need not resort to such tactics. The source of anything "shitty" in this thread is also as obvious. |
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Just some brainstorming, but what if Evergreen had an online shop for solar and renewable energy related stuff. Paying with EGC would give you some reward like eg. a reduced price. It isn't that hard to accomplish (thinking of dropshipping) and it would give EGC a real world usage. What do you think about it? being in the online sales business for some years i would say thats a great idea. but dont we have to establish a payment gateway first? If we gonna take this serious, we could try to be accepted as a coin at eg. https://www.coinpayments.net and I think that that isn't so hard to establish. We had tried via social media campaigns, and will try again in the near future, to convince coinpayments.net to look at accepting EverGreenCoin. I do fear when and if coinpayments.net did their original assessment months ago, they looked at coinmarketcap which at the time was pulling information from the old broken block explorer making it appear as our market cap was much lower than it in fact was. Market cap is a big determining factor for coinpayments.net when they access new coins. The hindrances that made correcting the old block explorer slow have been removed with the present block explorer and is the reason we had moved to a new block explorer months ago. Coinmarketcap does now pull information from this new and more diligently maintained block explorer. This will give coinpayments.net much more accurate information when accessing EverGreenCoin in the future. The idea of accepting EGC for solar and renewable energy related merchandise is an awesome one. I have been in brief contact with many via social media, planting the seed of knowledge about EverGreenCoin with these types of merchants and companies. Some with very responsive results but again, at the time, I was only trying to raise awareness so later when we do have a payment gateway, I would not be approaching them as an unknown. As you may know Joe (grumpytiger) has also made contacts within the industry and again I thank him for doing so. The dropshipping idea is a new angle I had not thought of specifically for EverGreenCoin. I thank you for bringing this up GizFreak and the link you mentioned. I have implemented, with the help of a team but largely on my shoulders, a similar idea for another coin (Sterlingcoin) and yes, it was accepting payments via coinpayments.net. Unfortunately that project ran into funding problems it has yet to completely recover from. Thank you grumpytiger for offering you expertise in online sales also. I can see that being yet another invaluable resource to bring this plan to life. I think it may be wise for us to let the market recover some before approaching coinpayments.net again for reevaluation. Thanks for all the teamwork gentleman! With more of that we can certainly make it so. |
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Isnt POW supposed to end at some point?
PoW ends at block 525960 according to the stats tab at the wallet. Accumulating nicely at Bittrex btw  According to the original plan PoW is supposed to last for about 6 months. With launch on the 25th of December iirc then pow will end about the 25th this month. Using the past 24 hours as a baseline, EGC is doing 2790 blocks per 24 hours according to my latest sample. Yes PoW ends at 525960. We are at ~473700 now, so 52260 remain in PoW. This works out to 18.7 days if the 2790 per day holds true. That would place the current projection for PoW to end on about the 30th of this month as of now if all variables remain constant. PoS blocks make this not an exact projection and more of an estimation. Fewer people staking results in fewer PoS blocks. More people staking results in more PoS blocks. For this projection to drift only 5 days over a 6 month period is understandable. I used 2880 as the projected number of blocks to come up with the 6 month estimate, allowing for 1 PoS block and 1 PoW block every minute on average. It looks like we will be just shy of that and stretch just past 6 months by a few days. Again, all variables remaining constant. |
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