Hi!

Just to clarify few things about upcoming Soft Fork.

Date is set to January 5th 2018.

Only thing you need to do is to update your wallet to latest version from here: https://espers.io/downloads/

This soft fork implements fixes the to the chain so the difficulty issue and Pow/PoS ratio is solved. Mining will be working correctly from Jan 5th

We are planning to launch 2 mining pools once the fork has taken place.

This soft fork does NOT include any coin burning, coin swapping or anything like that.

We have contacted exchanges to update their wallet to the latest version and so far I have only had confirmation from Livecoin that they have done so.
I will inform you once other exchanges confirm their update.

It is always the safest to keep your coins in your local wallet.

-mono

edit: Alcurex and Novaexchange are updated too.