The network is very strong and the seed nodes are running as they always do.

Do you have a firewall installed? Has some other change happened in the two days? Software, hardware, or network wise for you?

Thanks to the community members that have been assisting here while I was away from my desk with some personal matters. You guys are awesome.

Yes, teddybear, it seems you somehow got the chain corrupted. This can happen during a power outage or buy a wallet being forced to shutdown while it is writing to the chain. It is fairly common to happen and is no reason for alarm as your coins are safe. The biggest "damage" that comes from this is you have to re-sync your wallet. But first, as these community members so graciously have pointed out, you need to remove the corrupted chain first. Precisely as the helpful members of the community have said, delete all the files EXCEPT your wallet.dat file and a evergreencoin.conf file should you happen to have made one. Also, it is advisable to not delete the peers.dat file but, that is not critical if you do as peers will be found. The only UN-replaceable file is the wallet.dat file.

Again, thanks for everyone helping out teddybear. Teddybear, if you are still having problems, please do not hesitate to ask for assistance as we are all here to help.  

And a good random thought it is. One that had been brought up, but in a different way. If my memory serves, it was brought up as "would someone be able to add another staking coin to the solar miner themselves?" Which our opinion is, it is there device and if they want to, sure. However, the added CPU power consumption of staking another coin would demand more power. As would the added network traffic on wifi. Also storing another blockchain will require more data storage. How much do we increase the data storage space and increase the power storage and/or larger solar panels to support this is the question. Increasing the battery or bigger solar panels could add much cost of producing the solar miner. We of course would need to be certain the device would meet the new demands if it was loaded "stock" with another coin.

I think we do want to keep it labeled "The EverGreenCoin Solar Miner" for brand recognition. Perhaps if the like minded coin was ok with sticking to our naming. I am by no means ruling out anything at this point, maybe a new agreed upon name could be made. We intend to load the EGC wallet with an amount of EGC donated by the EGC Foundation and bring the chain up to date as far as possible before shipment so the device is ready to PoS, just add sunshine. It would make sense for the second coin to do similar.

Interesting ideas. The team will discuss in the near future. Of course members of the community are welcome to chime in with opinions or other ideas.

Thanks Buds.

Faucet or airdrop really makes little difference. Usually the only differences are the rules for participation, airdrops having tighter constrictions, and the payout amount, airdrops paying more.

You would not be able to prevent them from scanning it more than once and, even if you could, you have already given up the private key or the redemption string and they could do with the data as they wish.

The only way I can think of at this time of how it might work is for the QR code to be on a constant rotation. Showing a new QR code every 10 seconds for example. Whoever gets the private key imported into a wallet and then moved into another address would be the winner. Someone that then later tried to import the private key would be importing a private key that contains a zero balance because the coins have already been moved from the address. In an even more sophisticated system, it could monitor the balances of all the addresses for which it is passing out private keys to and recycle QR code private keys that never got redeemed or "cashed out".

Interesting.  

Hi chichidori,

Thank you for holding your EGC. I do see much potential as we do have a historic, and perhaps monumental, crypto achievement on deck with the strato EGC. That is going to bring a lot of exposure to EGC and get it in front of a lot of people. Pre-loaded paper wallets being distributed at the event will almost guarantee many of these people will be giving EGC a closer look. Also the solar miner will be brought to market by the end of this quarter as mapped out in the roadmap.


The markets have been doing very healthy. The community is growing steadily with new members, bringing new ideas which are being cultivated. I see potential all around EGC. But of course I respect your investing cautiousness and am glad you do feel safe to invest further.

Thank you for investing in EverGreenCoin.

Thanks Gizfreak. The paper wallets will be handed out. By hand. But, we are planning a second launch for late summer. Anything is possible.

Your weather balloon with QR code is an interesting idea, as I have done a few airdrops for projects and that is an idea I have never thought of. But, the only way that could work is for it to display a QR code of a private key. Then, somehow, change the private key, on what would have to be a digital display, after every private key was read or scanned. Hmmm, we are going to need more innovation before we can do this I think. Unless you are thinking it is only a QR code containing a string, rather than a private key. That string could be redeemed for an airdrop entry. But, unfortunatly, that string would quickly become shared and everyone would have it. Ok, sorry. Not trying to shoot down your idea, just thinking out loud.

Yes, upgrading is an option and you would only need to pay the difference. Please email Gabi at Gabi@evergreencoin.org with the txid of your payment if you do so.

c-cex 0.00001080 | bittrex 0.00001105 | cryptopia 0.00001003 | yobit 0.00001088

The EGC price bot on twitter is back online. I apologize for it's absence the past week due to a system outage. Presently, I have the price bot set to tweet the EGC price from YoBit and Bittrex at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. and I am working on adding more exchanges' information. I do make every effort to make investing in EGC as rewarding as possible. The times of this automated tweet were chosen for that reason. If anyone in the community thinks these timings should adjusted, please do not hesitate to say so. Also I do update the community that is present in the IRC with this information throughout the day.

Thanks for investing!

Hi everyone, I just got done talking with Gabi and we have agreed on a few things that will make participating in the strato project both more enticing and easier.

First, we will be making laminated EGC paper wallets to be distributed at the event. These will be loaded with 10 EGC by the EverGreenCoin Foundation. We have yet to decide on how many we will be making but, the launch event has 700 people set as going on Facebook so that number will be in the hundreds. We feel this will be a great way for the community to grow, bringing more like minded individuals and their ideas. 

Second, to entice people to participate in the project at the 3D printed name level, all receivers of the 3D printed name will also be mailed one of these laminated EGC paper wallets along with their 3D printed name that traveled into near space.

Lastly and most importantly, in an effort to make participating easier, we have agreed on static EGC pricing for both the "strato transaction only" level and the "strato transaction and 3D printed name (and now laminated EGC paper wallet)" level. The static prices are set at 2500 EGC and 9400 EGC respectively. The conversion process from USD, to BTC, to EGC has caused some confusion as using different exchanges along that process can cause much discrepancy. Also, the process is very confusing for people less familiar with crypto and we feel this might be discouraging involvement from people that otherwise would like to participate. The website will be updated to reflect this change in the very near future.

If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here in the thread or Personal Message myself and I will be glad to answer or elaborate in any way.

#ToTheStratoTop

Yes, of course you can use the EGC logo for your tshirts. I too would love to have one! The logo was made by logocreator. His work is always amazing.

Just in case polo has not eyed EGC yet....


Thanks in advance!

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Posting to verify, it is all true.

Steven Saxton

Well that is terrible news.
Sure, will look into it.

I know I will prize my 5 strato EGC! Technically, the EGC Foundation will prize my 5 as I am paying for them to be sent to the foundation. Of course the foundation must be represented in this historical crypto-event.

Speaking of the foundation, so the community is aware, I will once again be cleaning up the inputs of the foundations wallet today. Just like I have done in the past, I will be sending the EGC Foundation's balance of EGC to another wallet (ELynMfNpvy94BSgqc8KhJxyHD9tbQ1WS4v) and then back into the foundation's address (EdFwYw4Mo2Zq6CFM2yNJgXvE2DTJxgdBRX). If you are unaware of why I do need to do this, the foundation's wallet receives an input of 1 EGC every PoW block. Those many, many thousands of small inputs do weigh down on the wallet heavily as it is constantly looking at these inputs while it calculates PoS and validating its own balance. If left unchecked, the wallet will become unresponsive all together and effectively lock the coins in an unresponsive wallet. Yes they could be retrieved if this did happen, but I do want to avoid this. To prevent this, I send the coins to another wallet in several transactions then I send them back. The inputs are then not many thousands of small inputs but rather several larger inputs after doing this. I do this about once a month.

#ToTheTreetop

Presently, between 1 EGC and .01 EGC is the payout per entry. Depending on the number of entries in the 24 hour period. It is not a static amount.

Thank you for both your interest and your investment in EverGreenCoin, Port.

After PoW ends, in about 3 months, EGC becomes pure PoS. There will be no more EGC generated from PoW mining at that point. The only new EGC after that point will come from the 7% PoS people earn.

Of course, price should reflect this dramatic drop in supply of new EGC. We all know where the demand goes when supply drops.

Hi abyaby,

EverGreenCoin is getting a modest amount of exposure given its young age and the large number of fish in the sea. Our thread is twice as long as some projects that are "active" and much, much older. We are getting more and more interaction internationally. If you remember, EGC started with only a .US domain a few short months ago so, I am very excited about taking EGC away from that "possessive" mindset for which a former "team member" (using "team member" in the loosest form it has) is to blame. I do hope the bounties we have been paying for translations also aids in broadening our horizons as dose the faucet the EGC Foundation maintains. But yes you are correct, there is room for improvement and strides are being made.

We have invested in several different PR efforts and our community is constantly growing.



These wise investments have paid in fold with further, and not paid for, additional mention that EverGreenCoin should be and is very proud of. The earlier twitter campaign also continues to yield fruit as I just recently saw one of the old tweets retweeted in my feed.

We are in talks with other and new outlets also. I cannot publicly announce at this time but I assure you, efforts are being made and yes, there will be something new. We by no means are, or ever will be, done with the marketing strategy. Please do also remember that a team member who's largest focus often is marketing is out of the country for his job and with very limited and sometimes non-existent Internet connectivity and has been for a month now. The good news is he is coming home very soon.

That said, our budget for PR is limited and we could use, and greatly appreciate, the community helping to spread the word. Via retweets, likes, up-votes, and word of mouth, our community is EverGreenCoin's most valuable and cost effective resource. So please everyone, next time you are scrolling through your social media, give EverGreenCoin some interaction.

We thank you in advance for doing so.

I do like these ideas but, all of them would add to the cost to make the solar miner. The GPS tracking would greatly add to the cost and would be useless once the solar miner was out of range of the wifi it was setup to use unless in used cellular service. This would not only add greatly to the initial cost and push development of the product back, but a monthly service fee would surly offset the 7% interest being gained. Making owning the solar miner a financial loss.

If the device is stolen from ones yard, the best thing to do would to import the private key of the wallet on it into a different wallet and send the coins to a different address so the thief could not. That and of course notify authorities.

Perhaps future models of the solar miner could be designed more as a decorative yard ornament, true. But at this point we are trying to keep the cost low while still delivering a functional and reliable product. That and bring it to the market as soon as possible. Function over fashion.

Thanks for the ideas and for brainstorming on it. We do appreciate the input of the community.