After the recent dev Q&A, there was some concern that we wold be moving away from the charitable and humanitarian as of Earthcoin.  Even at the time of that Q&A, there was not 100% agreement on this issue, but I want to say that this is not longer the case.

The team has been trying to work as fast as possible to ensure both the short term survival and long term success of Earthcoin.  We are still working on *the big ideas*, and at first, there was concern by some of the devs that charities would not even benefit from earthcoin unless some work was done to make it through the short term.  However, more people have come out to help us develop and organize.

This is where you come in.  Yes, we want to continue have our positive, charitable and humanitarian soul.  We simply need more people helping us in our goals so we can focus on technical, cultural, short term and long term goals.   Please send me a private message if you want to get involved.

Also, for people who think we aren't doing anything or aren't working fast enough.  I can assure you that we are working as fast as we can while factoring in our normal everyday lives.  Most of us working on this project have full time jobs and other personal obligations in our lives.  If there was someone or a team being paid to work on this full time, then they would still have to pay their monthly bills and groceries at the moment in fiat and everyone would then be complaining that the EAC was being sold to fund the full time developers.

You all know that we have bounties to give, so if you want us to work faster, send developers our way that are willing to help us for a bounty. Xploited (who recently made waves by introducing Digishield and implemented it for Doge as a better alternative to Kimoto Gravity Well)just finished our android wallet along with EarthcoinJ (the earthcoin java implementation).  He can tell you that our wallet took far longer than the typical wallet because integrating our transsaction messaging system (an android wallet FIRST) took much longer than expected because it caused serialiazation and protobuf errors.  This delayed launch by about 2 months.  Now, you'll see that we have a nice themed wallet with exclusive features and an  extra "Earthcoin" tab that connects you directly to our network of main sites.

So now we have Sproket (who developed our Reddit tipbot) extending our wallet to other platforms and Linki (aka Earthsh*t on the earthcointalk forums) developing our next version of the wallet in John's place.  This is NOT an overnight process.  We are also debating what the next parameters of the coin should be.  Some are clamoring for Proof of Stake.  I even thought at first that this might be a good idea since I understood it as a more eco-friendly way to mine.  However, many more experience people chimed in and pointed out the other problems that other coins had with Proof of Stake.  It encourages hoarding instead of spending as a currency.  It causes inflation.  People have pointed us to coins like Tagcoin that used Proof of stake and became wrought with technical problems regarding high orphan rates to the point that merchants no longer wanted to accept them.

As for the rest.  YES, we want innovation.  YES we are open to ideas.  I have posted several times in this thread and others that we have a bounty pile for people who can help us implement new features.  If you are a developer or can send developers our way, then stop making demands and complaining and help out.  It was literally just under 2 weeks ago that we let the world know that our main dev had left, and somehow, everyone expects that our wishlist of technical upgrades would have all been implemented in the last two weeks with no one working full time.  We love the devs that have stepped up to the plate, but they are only people working in their spare time.  Help out if you can by at least helping us find talent that is experienced and willing to help.

But I agree with Steve and many others here.  Earthcoin is not here to be the one with the latest gimmicky feature. For example, we decided as a team that to implement ASIC resistance was antithetical to our missions statement.  ASICs provide more security and less power consumption.  This should be something we embrace.  Proof of Stake seems more power efficient but less useful as a currency and less stable as a network.

We believe that most of our strength will come from cultural innovation.  User friendliness and partnerships to try to put us more in the public eye.  If you are complaining thinking the devs are not working fast enough, then YOU should do it faster.  This is not me being facetious or theoretical.  I literally mean, you should go out and create these partnerships.  You can choose to work with us so you can work with our growing team, or go out and work independently and form your own teams.

If you feel like maybe our issue is that we are not communicating often enough, maybe help us disseminate information. This is one of the reasons Biomech recently joined us, but since the frequency is not often enough, maybe we do need more hands on deck.

Help us our.  Retweet our tweets.  Post on reddit when you spot something we haven't shared yet.  People asked us to develop a reddit tip bot, but how many of you are actually using it?  You asked us for mechandise and now we have several merch vendors providing metal earthcoin pins, embroidered hats, shirts, cellphone covers and more.   You asked us to get featured on the Mad Bitcoins youtube series and we were.  You asked for Kimoto's Gravity Well without even checking to see that are current 1-block difficulty retargeting was a superior system against fending off multipools.  You said to come up with an EAC exclusive store and Centurion gave you http://earthazaar.com which backs EAC with REAL SILVER (better than fiat currency).  You said EAC should spend less time with charity and humanitarian, charitable, positive causes and focus more on copying features from other coins.  

Bottom line.  We want to maintain the positivity and "force for good" nature of earthcoin.  Yes, we will make sure to change and evolve to make sure EAC doesn't look outdated and remains fast and secure, but whereas bitcoin is plagued with a Silk Road history and can come of as geek money, we think Earthcoin can  be easy to grasp and approachable.  Grandma may not understand Dogecoin, but she can grasp Earthcoin.   Helping us with content and educational material would be great at this point.  Marketing as well.

Stop complaining and start helping!  PM me for details.