[ANN] Emerald - EMD, a great cryptocurrency | Version 1.3 released!

[ISAWHIM]

For starters, we can stop calling it version 1.3, when the version is v0.6.3.0-unk-beta.



There is nothing indicating version 1.3, why it was ever called that, is unknown. (Personal dev version, just calling it whatever? Could be version cow-frog-delta-2... Or, like it actually says inside the wallet, v0.6.3.0-unk-beta.)
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[HELP]->[ABOUT EMERALD]->{Emerald Version: v0.6.3.0-unk-beta}

That is confusing people, I am sure. Stumped me until I finally just ran it, v0.6.3.0-unk-beta, and it worked. Then realized there is no actual 1.3 version. )

Website, any luck with a shell website?

Block-Chain, any luck with that?

A formal take-over for a dead-dev that is unresponsive, would normally require a new official actively moderated post, with an appropriate title. Deemed once there were no strong objections. (Then subsequently, this thread would direct to that, in the last post, before having a moderator lock-it-up.)

Also, might want to check the other major alt-coin forum. Since that is a more friendly alt-coin forum. (This place seems to have a hatred for anything not BTC. Even though the alt-coins being alive, is what is making all those people more BTC, by us not mining BTC, and using BTC as a conversion-rate. But, whatever. )

[ISAWHIM]

Emerald Wallet V1.3

https://mega.co.nz/#!8VohFZYB!_bd9eNWUkCcHaUgKLvUkPGrNv5WaVXJTdNsJK9qg4Mk

Thanks RM

P.S. Get your low-valued coins before the next big market-hike coming-up. My bot is drinking-up coins slowly still. Don't settle for less then USD$0.05/EMD, at the moment, they are USD$0.004/EMD. In BTC that is roughly 0.00008100BTC/EMD as opposed to the super-low 0.00000670BTC/EMD... Just don't pump it... buy slow. They will keep listing and selling at a loss. Apparently, they are all mining with free power on free hardware. lol.

The LTC/BTC spikes are coming.

[niothor]

Another coin going silent?

[Spekske]

I've just setup a p2pool to help keep EMD alive, you'll find it at http://dutchpool.org , fee is only 1% and no registration required, p2pool mines directly to your receive address.

URL: http://dutchpool.org:25228
Username: Your receive address (do not use an exchange address)
Password: Anything you want

[niothor]

I've just setup a p2pool to help keep EMD alive, you'll find it at http://dutchpool.org , fee is only 1% and no registration required, p2pool mines directly to your receive address.

URL: http://dutchpool.org:25228
Username: Your receive address (do not use an exchange address)
Password: Anything you want

At least one pool is active , so tech. the coin is not dead.
Let's see if more feedback comes in.

[ISAWHIM]

Lots of tiny hoarders...

All the hoppers left. Looking into taking-over this coin by force now. lol.

First thing being locked-out will be the abandoned devs coins, so those don't come back on the market. Why, because I think we can all agree that his premine is not being used to do anything other than pay his rent.

[ISAWHIM]

If the dev is smart, he will cash-out what he can, while there are still people listed to buy the coins, before we lock him out of being able to spend those blocks at all. Those blocks will be invalidated in the next version, for security reasons, since he did not earn them and is no longer using them to support the coin, only himself. He is not entitled to those coins any-longer.

I don't think any existing miner that is still using this coin, or prior coin-holder, would disagree to using that hard-forked version as the next forward version.

Though, at the moment, I wouldn't be listing coins higher than 0.0000001 lol. He will cash out. Don't give him so much BTC. lol.

[Henle]

I still mine EMD when nothing else looks great, although at 5 coins per block and a price around 500-700 satoshi, there are a lot of better things to mine.  If the price goes down, this coin would be worthless.

As for a hard fork, some devs just commandeered Galaxycoin, creating a new fork and implementing KGW.  Difficulty shot way up, making it unprofitable.  I probably won't be mining that any more.  As far as I can tell, Cryptsy is still on the old fork.  Probably going to sell what I have and abandon the coin.  Damn shame.  It took an unusual amount of work to get that coin working right. 

I would recommend not forking this coin too.  Whatever the original dev hoarded is water under the bridge.  If you like the coin, mine it.  If not, mine something else, or make your own coin.  There is no shortage of coins to mine.

[Spekske]

I still mine EMD when nothing else looks great, although at 5 coins per block and a price around 500-700 satoshi, there are a lot of better things to mine.  If the price goes down, this coin would be worthless.

As for a hard fork, some devs just commandeered Galaxycoin, creating a new fork and implementing KGW.  Difficulty shot way up, making it unprofitable.  I probably won't be mining that any more.  As far as I can tell, Cryptsy is still on the old fork.  Probably going to sell what I have and abandon the coin.  Damn shame.  It took an unusual amount of work to get that coin working right. 

I would recommend not forking this coin too.  Whatever the original dev hoarded is water under the bridge.  If you like the coin, mine it.  If not, mine something else, or make your own coin.  There is no shortage of coins to mine.

Your information about Galaxycoin is not correct, the new devs implemented KGW with the new wallet, diff is below 1 most of the day while the old fork/chain is above 6.

[Henle]

I might be wrong about the difficulty.  I am not mining on the new fork, just going by the information available on the thread.  I don't think I am wrong about Cryptsy.  I think they are still on the original fork.  So what value do your new coins have?  Can you exchange them anywhere?

[niothor]

Lots of tiny hoarders...

All the hoppers left. Looking into taking-over this coin by force now. lol.

First thing being locked-out will be the abandoned devs coins, so those don't come back on the market. Why, because I think we can all agree that his premine is not being used to do anything other than pay his rent.

Lols,

But what about the premine? How much is still there?

[Spekske]

I might be wrong about the difficulty.  I am not mining on the new fork, just going by the information available on the thread.  I don't think I am wrong about Cryptsy.  I think they are still on the original fork.  So what value do your new coins have?  Can you exchange them anywhere?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=495693.new#new
Cryptsy and other exchanges will have to move to the new chain anyway....

[ISAWHIM]

But what about the premine? How much is still there?

Why do you think he had the block-chain explorer removed.

As I believe his quote to another coin was... "Like your coin, ice is melt" (Like Ice, he has, and is still destroying any value this coin could have had.)

That's ok, I am over any desire to take this coin anyways. Had a look at the screwed-up code, and it would require re-writing the whole coin from scratch. So, I will not be the one to do the take-over. Too much to be done, with no real potential for reward.

This coin, and most others below 1-diff will dropped from cryptsy in the up-coming months. He will have to manually find people that want to buy his crap after that. Sadly, so will anyone still mining the coin.

[niothor]

But what about the premine? How much is still there?

Why do you think he had the block-chain explorer removed.

As I believe his quote to another coin was... "Like your coin, ice is melt" (Like Ice, he has, and is still destroying any value this coin could have had.)

That's ok, I am over any desire to take this coin anyways. Had a look at the screwed-up code, and it would require re-writing the whole coin from scratch. So, I will not be the one to do the take-over. Too much to be done, with no real potential for reward.

This coin, and most others below 1-diff will dropped from cryptsy in the up-coming months. He will have to manually find people that want to buy his crap after that. Sadly, so will anyone still mining the coin.

If this is the situation , the the coin is beyond repaid. Better starting all over from 0.

[AltCoinSpeculation]

Thanks for the new pool and wallet links, i've added them to the new website: http://emeraldcoin.info/

I'm gonna get a friend to design it a bit better when he has the time, and we'll work on some other ideas to help create more value for emd,
its a decent old coin with a good name so happy to contribute what i can, its a long term project but will check back here, and add any extra links if anyone posts anything.

[ISAWHIM]

Thanks for the new pool and wallet links, i've added them to the new website: http://emeraldcoin.info/

I'm gonna get a friend to design it a bit better when he has the time, and we'll work on some other ideas to help create more value for emd,
its a decent old coin with a good name so happy to contribute what i can, its a long term project but will check back here, and add any extra links if anyone posts anything.

^^^ That is the guy responsible for helping keep the coin alive... He is who you want to support, to get value added back to the coin. He is the one extending the greatest effort. Join his team. From this point forward, Emerald should start to rise again. With real value.

[AltCoinSpeculation]

Thanks,
lots of people expect instant success with coins, but its a long term opportunity,
Emerald has a lot going for it, currently only 5,000,000 mined with a total cap of 31,499,000,
It has a slow and steady block release rate which will be a bonus down the line,
As well as this it has a fairly wide distribution as it's been on the market at cheap prices for a long time,

Simple tech needs include:
getting the wallets up and functioning,
having a working blockchain,
having a working block explorer,
getting it onto coinmarketcap finally,

I'll work on sorting out the website and then focus on merchant acquisition,
the plan will be to find a local or online emerald dealer willing to accept emd for real emeralds,
get their business some emd as a starting stake, create them a website specifically for emd and ask them not to accept other coins,
then get some trades started and blog about it, generate some good pr,
more buyers and miners should enter the market,
hopefully long term emerald will become a solid coin for everyone's coin portfolio,

If these steps work for emerald then we can go about repairing other coins in the future,
crypto's a fantastic invention, and the coins deserve more time and effort put into them, creating solid financial products or services, assets which can't be easily manipulated by large banks and financial institutions.

to help out in any way email me at:  altcoinspeculation@gmail.com


http://www.emeraldcoin.info

[sawa]

having a working block explorer,

Very well.
I  have my own emerald p2pool http://dr-nona.office-on-the.net:12125
But I couldn't to find adresses of working block explorer.

I have taken p2pool Rav3nPL as a base

Code:

git clone https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav.git p2pool-emd

And added settings for emerald
To ~/p2pool-emd/p2pool/networks.py

Code:

    emerald=math.Object(
        PARENT=networks.nets['emerald'],
        SHARE_PERIOD=5, # seconds target spacing
        CHAIN_LENGTH=24*60*60//10, # shares
        REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH=24*60*60//10, # shares
        TARGET_LOOKBEHIND=200, # shares coinbase maturity
        SPREAD=60, # blocks
        IDENTIFIER='e40ef614eeebb395'.decode('hex'),
        PREFIX='502f757a499bf612'.decode('hex'),
        P2P_PORT=46857,
        MIN_TARGET=0,
        MAX_TARGET=2**256//2**20 - 1,
        PERSIST=False,
        WORKER_PORT=12125,
        BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS='dr-nona.office-on-the.net'.split(' '),
        ANNOUNCE_CHANNEL='#p2pool-sawa',
        VERSION_CHECK=lambda v: True,
    ),

To ~/p2pool-emd/p2pool/bitcoin/networks.py

Code:

    emerald=math.Object(
        P2P_PREFIX='fbc0b6db'.decode('hex'),
        P2P_PORT=12127,
        ADDRESS_VERSION=34,
        RPC_PORT=12128,
        RPC_CHECK=defer.inlineCallbacks(lambda bitcoind: defer.returnValue(
            'emeraldaddress' in (yield bitcoind.rpc_help()) and
            not (yield bitcoind.rpc_getinfo())['testnet']
        )),
        SUBSIDY_FUNC=lambda height: 5*31499000 >> (height + 1)//3110400,
        POW_FUNC=lambda data: pack.IntType(256).unpack(__import__('ltc_scrypt').getPoWHash(data)),
        BLOCK_PERIOD=20, # s
        SYMBOL='EMD',
        CONF_FILE_FUNC=lambda: os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ['APPDATA'], 'emerald') if platform.system() == 'Windows' else os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Application Support/emerald/') if platform.system() == 'Darwin' else os.path.expanduser('~/.emerald'), 'emerald.conf'),
        BLOCK_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',
        ADDRESS_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',
	TX_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',
        SANE_TARGET_RANGE=(2**256//1000000000 - 1, 2**256//1000 - 1),
        DUMB_SCRYPT_DIFF=2**16,
        DUST_THRESHOLD=1e8,
    ),

It works.
But it would be better to specify a block explorer address here:

Code:

        BLOCK_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',
        ADDRESS_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',
	TX_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',

I would be glad if I'll get help in solving this problem.
Thanks.

Anyone can mine in my pool http://dr-nona.office-on-the.net:12125 or connect your pool to my taking these settings.
When it's hard to mine other coins I switch to my pool for mining this fine emerald

[hanoosh]

any exchange ?

[hanoosh]

having a working block explorer,

Very well.
I  have my own emerald p2pool http://dr-nona.office-on-the.net:12125
But I couldn't to find adresses of working block explorer.

I have taken p2pool Rav3nPL as a base

Code:

git clone https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav.git p2pool-emd

And added settings for emerald
To ~/p2pool-emd/p2pool/networks.py

Code:

    emerald=math.Object(
        PARENT=networks.nets['emerald'],
        SHARE_PERIOD=5, # seconds target spacing
        CHAIN_LENGTH=24*60*60//10, # shares
        REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH=24*60*60//10, # shares
        TARGET_LOOKBEHIND=200, # shares coinbase maturity
        SPREAD=60, # blocks
        IDENTIFIER='e40ef614eeebb395'.decode('hex'),
        PREFIX='502f757a499bf612'.decode('hex'),
        P2P_PORT=46857,
        MIN_TARGET=0,
        MAX_TARGET=2**256//2**20 - 1,
        PERSIST=False,
        WORKER_PORT=12125,
        BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS='dr-nona.office-on-the.net'.split(' '),
        ANNOUNCE_CHANNEL='#p2pool-sawa',
        VERSION_CHECK=lambda v: True,
    ),

To ~/p2pool-emd/p2pool/bitcoin/networks.py

Code:

    emerald=math.Object(
        P2P_PREFIX='fbc0b6db'.decode('hex'),
        P2P_PORT=12127,
        ADDRESS_VERSION=34,
        RPC_PORT=12128,
        RPC_CHECK=defer.inlineCallbacks(lambda bitcoind: defer.returnValue(
            'emeraldaddress' in (yield bitcoind.rpc_help()) and
            not (yield bitcoind.rpc_getinfo())['testnet']
        )),
        SUBSIDY_FUNC=lambda height: 5*31499000 >> (height + 1)//3110400,
        POW_FUNC=lambda data: pack.IntType(256).unpack(__import__('ltc_scrypt').getPoWHash(data)),
        BLOCK_PERIOD=20, # s
        SYMBOL='EMD',
        CONF_FILE_FUNC=lambda: os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ['APPDATA'], 'emerald') if platform.system() == 'Windows' else os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Application Support/emerald/') if platform.system() == 'Darwin' else os.path.expanduser('~/.emerald'), 'emerald.conf'),
        BLOCK_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',
        ADDRESS_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',
	TX_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',
        SANE_TARGET_RANGE=(2**256//1000000000 - 1, 2**256//1000 - 1),
        DUMB_SCRYPT_DIFF=2**16,
        DUST_THRESHOLD=1e8,
    ),

It works.
But it would be better to specify a block explorer address here:

Code:

        BLOCK_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',
        ADDRESS_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',
	TX_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://127.0.0.1:12125/static/',

I would be glad if I'll get help in solving this problem.
Thanks.

Anyone can mine in my pool http://dr-nona.office-on-the.net:12125 or connect your pool to my taking these settings.
When it's hard to mine other coins I switch to my pool for mining this fine emerald

im having this problem:

 Testing bitcoind P2P connection to '127.0.0.1:12127'...
...taking a while. Common reasons for this include all of bitcoind's connection slots being used...

i copied the codes as u paste it but it not working, any help ?