Many thanks to those that joined the hangout yesterday. It was a good meeting! Some longer-standing community members came mic-equipped, that was a pleasent surprise to get their input. Also, James invited Sandy from the "Environmental Coffee House", one of the more popular environmental groups on facebook. Of course I was pleased to discuss things with her and thank James for expanding our community. Sandy will be sharing more information about EverGreenCoin in her circle of like-minded environmental comrades.
Let's see. To summarize recent events very briefly:
We are still waiting for our to-be-components from pi-supply. I expect them early this week. As mentioned, I will share results of our findings from this hardware as soon as possible. At this time I can tell you the solar stakers will be closer to the $200 dollar range, but bear in-mind, it may be pre-loaded with 100 EGC. It does seem the originally mentioned target of $100 is out of the question even with the foundation supplying the pre-loading coins. But those numbers are not concrete and only estimates at this time. But do expect more concrete numbers soon. Generally speaking, we are looking at 'weeks' not 'months' to be shipping, but I can not be more precise than that at this time.
James and I are working on some big plans for a tree-plant this spring, perhaps to the tune of 1000 trees and much of that occurring on state protected lands. James and I feel we can get many participants, even other green organizations participating, with a bounty of 10$ worth of EGC. This will require at most 20,000 EGC of the 277k foundation coins.
The shirts have finally
arrived in Keyna, but not yet to Kakuma. Lyama has been advised to be on the lookout. The idea of a solar water pump for their water well has been kicking around in our
Discord. Unfortunately because a new well does need drilled, that is going to take much more orchestration than originally hoped. So we are staying on course with the desks, that funding is only lacking 50$ so please consider
pitching-in if you can. Many videos have been uploaded to
YouTube and easily demonstrate the need for the desks, but that will just be the first phase of aid. I hope once the community sees some of the evidence from the desks, they will be more inclined to help with the much greater funding requirements of the solar pump water well.
As you all know, v1.7.3 has been released and almost 20% of the network is using it already. I am pleased with that adoption rate.
We discussed the need for the community to stay focused together on exchange goals. Please
retweet at Binance. We are still a relatively small project, our efforts need to concentrated. To those that are skeptical of our ability to get added to Binance, they do follow us on twitter. I think that may be a good sign! Please at least retweet so they know the demand is there. Better yet, compose your own tweet and the rest of us will gladly retweet it as well.
On the exchange topic, many of you know we and about 30 other 'alts' were removed from Bisq. While we could get added again, Bisq has a "one strike and you're out" policy (our first strike does not count). We agreed at the meeting it would be best to wait to be added for the Bisq platform to mature and our volume level to be high enough that we will be sure to not be removed again. Once removed again, we cannot be added again. In the past myself and other community members have traded at losses to retain listings, only to ultimately get delisted (c-cex) anyway. We feel it would be unwise to repeat that. So for now, it will remain on a side-burner. That said, decentralized exchanges will be more and more important in the future.
Ok, that is all the hot topics. Have a great week everyone!
