Looking forward to seeing more! You certainly have a decent foundation to begin from.

The coin design is good, except for the difficulty schedule. Then again, 14 months ago there were no scrypt asics to contend with.

Definitely a good foundation to start with. Just needs a little tweaking of the code, development of apps and services, and a little marketing. All of which are coming soon.

Thanks for the support.


Dig that old wallet out. Download the latest version and replace the wallet.dat with your old one.

If you have any trouble with the wallet syncing, try adding some of the nodes above. The first three or four in the list are usually active in my peer list. Will try to add a hard-coded node or two in the next wallet update.

Good luck for the takeover, need to add new stuff in the coin, it's too old...

We have a block explorer once again! We were only without one for a few days, but I sure did miss having one...

We also have a new faucet! I personally sent 10K EMD to the faucet. Any of you "whales" out there with lots of EMD should consider sending a few, too.

Unfortunately, BCT will not allow my newbie account to link to the [dot] tk domains... WTH???

The addresses of the block explorer and faucet are in the OP. Copy and paste, then replace the [dot] with a .    I'll set up a redirect later so that we can link directly to them...

Kind of like trying to post BCT links from Twitter... 

There should be a new MPOS pool coming online in the next couple of days. The pool op is tied up, at the moment, with another project. I'll post the link in the OP when it is live.

Lastly, I'll be finishing up the WP_Emerald plugin today and should have a link to it posted by this evening. You can see a slightly modified version of it running on the main Emerald Crypto website.

Just the beginning, folks! Plenty more to come!

That would be starting a "new" coin not doing a hardfork... EMD has been around for a long time, so there would be several people who are still holding coins from earlier mining that may not get word and lose their coins when a swap was done. Then there are always the questions and accusations about what happened to the extra coins that nobody redeemed their old coins for...

m0gliE created a bootstrap file earlier, that could be downloaded and added to a new wallet which drastically reduced the time it took to download the blockchain through the wallet. After we get the new code ready and a wallet released with the fork in it, we will create a new bootstrap file, to help out with the sync times.

*Trumpets Blare*  Announcement!

WP_Emerald is now available for download. The link from the OP takes you to a page with instructions and the download link. Enjoy!

More to come!

I'll be out for most of the weekend. It's birthday week... Sure hope the next 50 go by a little slower... 

Will check in here when I can to answer any questions and/or announce any new developments.

Have been working on the core code the past couple of days. Would like to get it all wrapped up in the next week or so, and get the new wallets out. Will need to do some conferencing with the other dev team members, to finalize the details.

After the core update, I will be focusing my time on creating a digital marketplace for EMD. Have a few other plans... more coming soon!

There is no linux "client". For now, you can build it from the source.

We plan to have clients for Windows, MacOSX, and Linux with the new core release.

If you wish to know a bit more about me, this is probably a good place to start: Gary's 50th Birthday Thoughts

I'm headed to the pub for a couple of cold birthday beers! 

Although it was a birthday weekend; I have been busy working on the Emerald Core. The new code is finished!... Hopefully... 

I will be compiling a new wallet today and doing some testing to be sure that the fork to a new difficulty schedule will be smooth. The planned fork is for block 1600000. Under perfect conditions, that would be 11 days from today. But as the amount of blocks being found has been, roughly, half of the  scheduled amount; it should make the fork occur somewhere during the first week in September. This gives the exchanges, pools, etc plenty of time to get the new source compiled and up and running.

We chose to go with DGW3 for the difficulty adjustment. This should make it unprofitable for multipools to jump on and grab 200 or so blocks at a time. There may still be some action, but it should be limited to just a few blocks, as the difficulty adjusts with each new block instead of every 180. I also added another checkpoint and upgraded the openssl to the latest version (1.0.1i).

I think everyone will like the new wallet. It has been given a bit of a new look that makes it stand out from most other standard QT's. I will try to post some screenshots in the next day or two. The new wallet should be available for download by Thursday, if not sooner. With this release we will only have a windows wallet to begin with. The MacOSX and Linux wallets will be coming later.

After the fork there will be another wallet coming with more features. This wallet will be based on the latest Bitcoin core (9.2.1). This will be a minor upgrade (code wise), but should be a much better wallet, feature wise. We plan to have a couple of seed-nodes hard-coded into that release, so that syncing will never be an issue.

The OP will be updated to reflect this and other new information in the next few days. Much more still to come!