EUROPECOIN HISTORY BOOK PROGRESS
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Progress with the Europecoin history book is ongoing. Like all the book projects Crypto Books has embarked on, it is important to know the major events which taken place. As promised on Twitter, I have collated as many historical events as possible up until the end of June 30th 2015. These are:
3rd May 2014 – Original ERC Bitcointalk thread created by user “EuropeCoin”
4th May 2014 – Twitter account at
https://twitter.com/EuropeCoinERC created.
5th May 2014 – official website europe-coin.com/ went live
4th-6th May 2014 – Coin Logo contest took place.
5th May 2014 – Comkort added ERC to their list of potential coin additions.
6th May 2014 – Bittrex announced as going to offer ERC trades from 10th May.
7th May 2014 – Winner of logo design contest named as @minersmafiauk23
9th May 2014 – Total number of coins reduced from 741M to 384M
10th May 2014 – ERC blockchain launched at ~16:00 GMT
10th May 2014 – Bittrex exchange added ERC
10th May 2014 – Coin-Swap.net added ERC.
11th May 2014- Europex exchange added ERC.
14th May 2014 – cryptoarticles.com piece about ERC published by Jean-Pierre Buntinx
15th May 2014 – ShareXcoin exchange added ERC
https://sharexcoin.com/market/ERC_BTC16th May 2014 – PoW block reward reduced from 10,000 ERC to 5,000 ERC
17th May 2014 – official ERC faucet created at explorer.europe-coin.com/faucet
18th May 2014 – ERC Promotionl Videro uploaded to YouTube Director: Ouriel Benaroch Music: Michaël Harroch
19th May 2014 – One unit of ERC account increased 95.3% and 17.6 BTC volume in last 24 h
19th May 2014 – ERC timestamping algo switches to pure PoS
22nd May 2014 – ERC launched its own CryptoStore
http://cryptostore.europe-coin.com/ 5th June 2014 – ERC added to Comkort exchange (Cagecoin and GlobalBoost same day)
(ABANDONED FOR APPROX. HALF YEAR)
21st December 2014 – a new Bitcointalk thread created to indicate takeover.
23rd December 2014 – new ERC Twitter announced at
http://twitter.com/europecoinEUORG 26th January 2015 - short summary by Matthias of the first month since takeover.
10th February 2015 – ERC unit of account valued at 69 BTC sat on Comkort.
14th February 2015 – praise from user “cryptonit”.
17th February 2015 – BetaShareX announced as having severe issues. Matthias recommended Comkort as reliable, active and more convenient trading exchange.
2nd March 2015 – first official ERC Giveaway began (100 ERC). Lasted for several months.
March 2015 – server problems and moving office for Matthias…
10th April 2015 – Europecoin has not been abandoned…
28th April 2015 - Matthias moved the sourcecode from his personal repository to a organizations repository for everybody to join.
28th April 2015 – 4 bounties advertised.
15th May 2015 – Matthias had a meeting with Cointouch
(the new european alternative for local bitcoins) discussions were occurring to get ERC integrated into this payment processor service.
16th May 2015 - a press release was published at the URL:
http://www.europecoin.eu.org/europcoin-info-resources/press-info and was delivered to all known publishers via Mail and Twitter
17th May 2015 - Europecoin joined Bitnode Crowdfunding.
19th May 2015 - article was published at
https://bitcoingarden.org/europecoin-a-movement-to-decentralize-europe/.
19th May 2015 – 24hr volume of ERC/BTC pair on Comkort surpassed 1 BTC (322 BTC Sat per ERC)
20th May 2015 - Europecoin joined Bitnode Crowdfunding successfully funded.
27th May 2015 - official block explorer went live at
http://www.europecoin.eu.org/europcoin-info-resources/blockexplorer2nd June 2015 - user “gaazje” made the ERC community aware of the imminent closure of Comkort.
3rd June 2015 - Matthias posted a 100,000 reward bounty for getting on new exchange in 7 days.
14th June 2015 – ERC announced to be added on Bleutrade exchange.
15th June 2015 – ERC trading went live on Bleutrade.
18th June 2015 – ERC added to the website
www.coinmarketcap.com29th June 2015 – market cap surpassed $50,000.
Further work will occur to research events until the end of 2015.
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