Topic: [ANN] Emerald - EMD, a great cryptocurrency | Version 1.3 released! - page 5. (Read 108121 times)

Interesting thoughts Henle. I agree mostly, and thanks for the mention of my Gox coin I hope that the coin can move forward in a positive way.

Still accepting EMD if anyone is interested!

Is there a focal point for the EMD community other than this thread? I have some products I may like to promote exclusively through EMD for payment in the future.

My two cents - I wouldn't change a thing, and would prefer that any new developer not change the basics of the coin either.  This coin perfectly fills a gap other coins don't have covered.  It's profitable enough to be worth while to mine, but not so profitable/popular that it gets pounded by multipools.  It's easy enough to mine to make collecting several thousand easily attainable for anyone, but low enough reward that a couple thousand still have value.

An argument could be made that maybe POS could be added to it to increase it's value a little, but it's a great coin to mine as-is, so going with a high POS reward, or switching to 100% POS like Philosopherstone is contemplating would make mining it worthless.  Why mine 100 or 200 Emeralds a day when you can just buy a mess of them and sit back and collect minting rewards?  Is anyone still mining ZEIT?  No, because it's pointless.  But I'm not selling mine, because just leaving it in my wallet collects far more per month than I could mine in a year.

Maybe adding a small POS component, like 10% per year, would be a good idea to prevent a 51% attack, but more than that would change the coin too much.

I would argue that if people want to see more activity in the community, they should get involved and promote it.  Making more people aware of the coin would be a great thing and probably drive the price up naturally.  I've seen one or two posts about people accepting Emerald for goods or services - a commiserative coin about Mt. Gox for example.  Bottlecaps has one or more vendors that accept CAPs for seasoning and sauces.  These examples can drive demand.  Getting a good website up would almost certainly drive demand - what exists right now is not going to get people interested.  Promoting in other posts can drive demand.  Hell, even someone pumping the coin in forums and chat rooms to dump their load of Emeralds can drive demand by making more people aware it exists, but switching the algorithm is not going to drive demand for the coin, and may drive people away. 

As an example, I used to mine Diamond every day, and I'd get 10 to 15 per day.  They switched to Groestl and now I can't effectively mine Diamond any more.  I get 1 a day.  One lucky day last week I got 3.  Yesterday I got none.  I'm done.  I'll probably hold what I have to collect POS rewards, but I'm done mining it.  And the current price reflects the coin's demand.  It went from over 100k satoshi to 80k, and if they don't fix pool mining, I think it's going to go lower.  Damn shame, Diamond was awesome.  Now, if you don't have a rig with 6 GPUs, it's a waste of hash to mine it, because you aren't getting any.

Another example is Galaxycoin.  That was a good one too, as it was.  It used to cost 500 to 700 satoshi and it was easy to mine.  A new developer took over the coin, changed it too much, and now it's worth 125.  that was months ago and it hasn't recovered.

Emerald was all but dead a couple times, but it survives because it's good the way it is.  Changing it too much in my opinion would be a bad idea, and if it goes as poorly as Diamond is going right now, the change could kill the coin.

That's my thoughts.

My wallet can not synchronize,why?Who can help me?

That's the compiled daemon, not needed for windows. If you want to compile your own daemon for *nix you can do so by cloning the src from github.

awesome community takeover yo!

What is emeraldd.exe file with 48MB in your upload?

Besides that, your files come out almost clean:

SHA256:    e7f0e787f100161b3c7f2d4aa8d2a2498fca78237849814e48a43273357a6d51
File name:    Emerald13.zip
Detection ratio:    0 / 49
Analysis date:    2014-05-10 11:42:34 UTC

SHA256:    c32776810892d6e463604129a1cc1b06097e66b533bdcd5004d91a1e94ca3b3e
File name:    emerald-qt.exe
Detection ratio:    0 / 52
Analysis date:    2014-05-10 11:44:58 UTC

SHA256:    ff2d099934f7b95b3ff197f16ba825f6e54589cef23832f1fc852314eb9cccff
File name:    emeraldd.exe
Detection ratio:    1 / 51
Analysis date:    2014-05-10 11:50:01 UTC

Still trading on cryptsy.

https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/69

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where can trade the coin? the coin is dying?

Let's not allow this coin die. Some of the old coins have great potential and deserve to be kept alive.We can make the difference. We need to involve more people into the cryptocurrencies world.

I kept a copy of the current v1.3 release of Emerald, so I went ahead and uploaded to several locations below.

I don't think the community of coin supporters enjoy the idea of seeing a coin project just die, especially those who have invested their hashrates regardless of the speedbumps the coin may face.

Emerald v1.3 Links:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz3NalaCIrQrYXY0OERDVVdnclU/edit?usp=sharing

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7feuo7vaz4omcmk/Emerald13.zip

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u143r8amf20rvop/acBeFIG06g

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u143r8amf20rvop/_JUaQBkpj-/Emerald13.zip

Bootstrap.dat post:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6222767

sad but true...
emerald leaves the stage of cryptocoins

Yes, anyone out there. Let's offer it to the Diamond Developers they are doing great job with changing the Algo. It will be great to have all this precious gems under one maintainer.

So with the coin's homepage & wallet links removed, who's steering this ship atm? Anyone interested in taking it over?

Be careful downloading the wallet posted on that site, as it has strong indications to be compromised! Virustotal finds 17/52 - which is considerably high, as most wallets show no signs of viruses at all.
It seems the author deleted all traces of the old wallet (perhaps no viruses) from all sites about Emeraldcoin. The only wallet I could find was on the above mentioned site.


https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/67ef20bd5b557ff1719503858f5ff77f74ff6fefacbab0875252d7902ba57278/analysis/1399011240/

SHA256:    67ef20bd5b557ff1719503858f5ff77f74ff6fefacbab0875252d7902ba57278
File name:    Emerald13.rar
Detection ratio:    17 / 52
Analysis date:    2014-05-02 06:14:00 UTC

Hello, everyone.

I've been following Emerald as well as Diamond and Ruby Coins for awhile now. I think with current development in Diamond DMD it is time for Emerald to do something to attract more people into mining and owning the Coin which has tremendous potential. Change in Algo, more services and some marketing will be nice.

Hey guys, while I have not mined EMD directly, I do buy it on cryptsy so to help further EMD as a payment method I just thought I'd let you know that I am accepting it as a payment method for my "Goxxed for the Last Time!" commiserative coin.

Why not pop over to the thread and take a look?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/goxxed-for-the-last-time-gold-and-silver-plated-508380



I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

Emerald Bootstrap.dat



   bootstrap.dat

bootstrap.dat allows a new Emeraldcoin client (not synced) to rapidly import the initial blocks from a
local file instead of slowly downloading blocks from random peers. This significantly reduces the
time it takes to get a client synced with the current blockchain.

Simply having bootstrap.dat in Emeraldcoin's expected data directory will make your initial block sync
much faster. The import process can be even faster if you use the -dbcache=1000 command line
parameter which uses an additional 1GB of RAM for the database index cache.

   Extracting the bootstrap.dat.xz

Regardless of your operating system, use the following steps to make use of the bootstrap.dat file:

1.   Download bootstrap.dat.xz from mirrors or torrent.
2.   Decompress the bootstrap.dat.
3.   Put it into the Emeraldcoin datadir. "%appdata%/emerald" / "~/.emerald"
         (This is the same folder that contains wallet.dat and the blocks folder.)
4.   Delete bootstrap.dat.old if you want to recover some storage space.

    Emeraldcoin Data Folder

    Linux
Emeraldcoin's data directory is located in ~/emerald/ by default. You can run ls -a to see
directories that start with a period. You can also search for the directory with the following
command:

   Mac
You can obtain xz from MacPorts or http://macpkg.sourceforge.net/.
Emeraldcoin's data directory should be located in ~/Library/Application Support/emerald/.

   Windows
7Zip is a free utility that can decompress .xz files, so does the latest version of WinRAR.

Click on Start then Run (or press WinKey+R) and type:
Emeraldcoin's data directory will open. "AppData" and "Application Data" are hidden by default in
Windows.

   Copy bootstrap.dat to data directory

Copy the bootstrap.dat to your data directory. Load the Emeraldcoin client and wait for it to load the
blocks. After loading is complete, the bootstrap.dat will be renamed to bootstrap.dat.old at which
point you can choose to delete it.

Emeraldcoin - 4/9/2014 - 525,025 KB

GoogleD - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz3NalaCIrQra3lianQzMW1tUm8
Torrent - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz3NalaCIrQrbzZ3ZzdFc05Ta00

E-nautia Mirror - http://e-nautia.com/jon.marshall/disk/bootstrap/emeraldcoin/bootstrap.dat.xz
E-nautia Direct - https://e-nautia.com/disk/download.php?id=5450813

Emerald Donation Address: EmmupsK8s6MH3JCrnBXHh8owm5tfTCvbpy

I've added Emerald (EMD) as my "The Resurrected" coin choice on http://p2pool.sawilson.org , and added a link to the most current wallet (bottom of the page). There's a 1 percent fee. I noticed it rocking coinwarz and I can't believe how easy it is to mine something that's so profitable at the moment. The block explorer kinda sucks, but hey, you can trade it on Cryptsy.